Charles Marvin

Chuck always said he was born under a wandering star. Charles Arthur Marvin, 83, died..... in Atlanta, Georgia, where he had lived since 1985.
Born in Chicago on July 14, 1942, to Margaret (Medlar) and Burton Marvin, he grew up in Lawrence, Kansas. Before attending the University of Kansas, he spent a year with his family in Teheran, Iran, his first time living abroad. After his undergraduate degree, he studied at the university in Toulouse, France, as a Fullbright scholar. He earned two degrees in law at the University of Chicago.
During a post-graduate year in Brussels, where he interned with the Common Market, he met his first wife, and they lived a year in England before returning to North America. He lived in several provinces in Canada, teaching law and working for the Canadian government, and there they had two children, Colin and Kristin.
He returned to the US and taught at Villanova and later at Georgia State University. In 1993, shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, he worked for a semester in Kazakhstan and Bulgaria. He was awarded another Fullbright to teach in 2000-2001 at the new, westward-looking Riga Graduate School of Law, and he and Betsy, whom he married in 1999, forged ties in Latvia that lasted the rest of his life, returning to teach several times, and vacationing there nearly every year. They hosted tour groups of friends and wandered all over the Baltics from 2011 to 2024. He estimated that he'd visited some 70 countries. Chuck's wide knowledge of history, politics, art, and other cultural fields and his gentle manner and sweet smile endeared him to many. 

He is survived by his wife Betsy Wilson Marvin, children, Colin, of Ottawa, Canada, Kristin, of Vancouver, Canada, his brother Bob (Patricia) of Saint Louis, and sister Anne of Lawrence, KS. Also surviving are stepsons Michael Gregory Branden (Robyn) of Lawrence, and Nicholas Marshall of Asheville, NC.
Each one of these along with a host of friends and travel mates will miss him dearly.