Marshall was known to rule Boortz from time to time. The voice of plains partner that offers a reality check with the remark "Man, is not correct." Is freely offered his opinions on the topic of the day, even if they differed from the host.
"I had back all the time," Boortz said Saturday. "The thought ... there are many times I should have been kicked in the butt. The show goes on, but right now I do not know how."
Marshall, 43, died early Saturday. He told his wife was not feeling well and went to a bathroom at home and collapsed, Boortz said. He was taken to Grady Memorial Hospital, but could not be revived.
'I lost my other half ", Belinda said Skelton, the show's producer Neal Boortz. "It's very surreal."
Marshall worked with Boortz for 17 years. He and Skelton were interviewed for a job at WSB board operator, at the same time and were hired for a position, working overnight, because the station could not choose between them, said Skelton.
He later joined the program Boortz.
He was a father of two children - 2-year-old Ava and 4-year-old Amira - and is dedicated to his wife, Annette.
"It was not the only one who liked real fun. Then there was the" I met a girl I knew in high school and be re-weeve know and now we're getting married, '"recalled Boortz." Suddenly there was another Marshall Royal I have met many men of the family I, .. I met a lot of people dedicated to their wives who never met anyone dedicated to his wife as the Real .. "
Boortz said that everything came in a distant second place with his family. The Last Christmas, Boortz and the rest of staff for the show took a day trip to New York, but decl9ine Marshall, because I wanted to be with their daughters.
"When they are adults who have hardly known his father," said Boortz. 'There must be a way to honor the real memory.
No arrangements have been announced.
Condac Pressley, assistant program director of the AM750 and now 95.5 FM News / Talk WSB said that it was too early to determine cause of death.
"It was a good man," he said. "I can not believe he's gone."
Born in St. Louis real and graduated from the University in Georgia in 1992.
He also started his own radio show called The Real Treatment in 1996 and worked for several years, especially at night.
Real had a great sense of humor and a quick mind that made him a natural for radio, and his dedication to his colleagues and friends, was only surpassed by his intense devotion to his family, "said Boortz.
Marshall was a deacon at the Ray of Hope Christian Church in Decatur and chairman of the national advisory council Forever Family, a nonprofit organization that helps children who have parents incarcerated.
Marshall also ventured into comedy in the account is the end of a couple of years.
"He had an easy way with people and was very comfortable with the microphone," says Jamie Bendall, owner of the Punchline. "I thought it was a natural."
Skelton Boortz and even emotional, difficult to speak about his friend, even hours after his death.
"My heart is completely broken," Boortz, crying, said that when called to speak in a special program to remember their friend.
Boortz was at Naples, Florida where she lives, having lunch with his wife when he received the call.
"I said 'gosh, I loved him as a brother," Boortz said he told his wife.
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