Legacy
- Dr. Peter Marshall School in Anaheim, California is named for him.
- Catherine Marshall wrote a biography of her husband, A Man Called Peter (1951), which was a popular success.
- It was adapted as a film of the same title, released in 1955, which was nominated for an Oscar. Directed by Henry Koster, it featured Richard Todd as Peter Marshall, and Jean Peters as Catherine Marshall. Todd studied tape recordings of several Marshall sermons from 1947–48; some of these historic recordings were later released to the public by Caedmon Records.
- The biography was also adapted as a stage play by the same name, produced in 1955.
Catherine Marshall developed a career as a writer, publishing more than 220 books. These included many editions of her late husband's sermons, several of her own inspirational books, and the best-selling novel Christy, inspired by her mother's accounts of her early teaching years in Appalachia.
In 1959 Catherine Marshall married Leonard LeSourd, executive editor of Guideposts magazine.
Catherine died on March 18, 1983, and was buried at her request next to her first husband Peter Marshall.
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“What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.”
—Desiderius Erasmus (c. 1466–1536)