Port Angeles: Most romantic man finds the task to be easy

Published 12:01 am Thursday, February 19, 2004

PORT ANGELES — The most romantic man on the North Olympic Peninsula was honored at Olympic Cellars winery on Wednesday.

Port Angeles resident Jack Marshall beat out 54 other area men in a Valentine’s Day contest sponsored by the winery.

The men were nominated in letters written by wives or significant others.

Winery officials also selected a runner-up for the contest, Roger Sanders of Port Angeles.

Marshall, a landscape contractor, was nominated by his wife, Pam, who did not tell him about her contest entry.

“This was a total surprise. I don’t think of myself as a romantic person,” Marshall said.

“It is not something I have to work at. It is pretty easy because I love this woman.”

In the nominating letter, Marshall, 57, was described as a man who does things every day to make his wife feel loved and special.

“My favorite thing about Jack is how openly he shares his love for me with everyone — he proudly stated once that he had waited a lifetime to be here with me,” Mrs. Marshall wrote.

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The rest of the story appears in Thursday’s Peninsula Daily News.