Marshall D. Bryson, 86, retired Tennessee State Highway Department employee, died Tuesday at Baptist Memorial Hospital in Memphis after a short illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Maley-Yarbrough Funeral Home, with burial in Covington Memorial Gardens. Bryson, the husband of Audrey Elsie Yarbro Bryson, also leaves a daughter, Mrs. Carol Brashier of Atoka; two sons, Bobby Bryson of Vernon, Ala., and Meredith Bryson of Ripley; a brother, Clayburn Bryson of Covington, seven grandchildren, and five great-grandchildren. (The Commercial Appeal, Memphis, Wednesday, September 19, 1990)