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Former San Francisco Giants Dave Marshal dies less than 48 hours after his wife

Dave Marshall, the popular parking czar for big events in downtown Long Beach and former SF Giants player, loved life — but he loved his wife, Carol, even more.

“Dave just adored Carol,” Tom Marcoux, Marshall’s boss at the Long Beach Convention Center, said Thursday, June 13. “She meant everything to him. He would brag about how upbeat and positive she was despite her illness.”

Carol, you see, suffered from multiple sclerosis for many years. But Dave was always by her side.

Recently, however, the disease got worse and Carol, who was hospitalized at St.