DIXON – Jane Marshall's legacy in Dixon will be more than just the family business.

Marshall, 88, died on Friday, Dec. 12, 2014, at Serenity Hospice & Home in Oregon, after a short illness.

As much as the her name is connected to the Marshall Salon Services, her legacy extends to civic involvement and volunteerism, two things that have been passed to the generations of Marshalls that have followed.

She spent 11 years on the Dixon School Board, including several as the board president, and was involved with the addition to what's now Reagan Middle School. She was active with Dixon Theatre Renovation Inc. and spent 28 years as a member of the KSB Hospital Pink Ladies.

The Pink Ladies is a volunteer group at the hospital that helps patients and visitors find their destination, and assists families waiting for patients undergoing surgery.

"She loved doing that for years and years and years," her son, Jim Marshall, said Sunday.

She was recognized for her volunteerism in 1994, when she was named the Dixon Citizen of the Year.

"I think it is a team effort," she told the Telegraph after receiving the award. "There is no way I could get anything done without everyone's help."

The efforts and involvement that led to the honor didn't stop.

"It instilled in my sister and I a desire to be civil-minded and some volunteerism," Jim Marshall said, adding that his sister, Robin Canode, has been involved with planting petunias in Dixon and with the Dixon Public Schools Foundation.

Jim Marshall was part of the Committee to Change City Government, which advocated for the switch to the managerial form. It passed with the approval of 76 percent of voters in the November general election.

Jim's son, Ryan Marshall, Jane's grandson, was a member of the Lee County Board and is considering a campaign for City Council. And the civic- and volunteer-minded Marshalls haven't stopped there.

"I think it’s done well," Jim Marshall said. "She has done well to instill volunteering and helping people."

Marshall was born in Sublette and moved to Dixon for her junior year of high school, where she met her future husband, Robert D. Marshall. They married Feb. 22, 1947. He preceded her in death June 28, 1989.

Jim Marshall said education was always important to his mother, who was a member of the School Board and Parent-Teacher Association. It was that emphasis on education, he said, that led Marshall Salon Services to add a continuing education aspect for its hairdressers.

"She touched a lot of lives around the Sauk Valley area," he said.

And even when she was honored as Dixon's 13th Citizen of the Year, those she worked with and the city were on her mind.

"This award really belongs to the community, but I am happy to have received it," she said in 1994. "My experiences have brought me into contact with a lot of people I normally would not have met if I had not gotten involved."