OBIT: MARTIN, Estel - 30 Apr 1981 - McCreary Co, KY
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 19:00:11 -0400
Submitted by: Bill Hale (wdhale@highland.net)

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PUBLISHED IN THE McCREARY RECORD ON JUNE 2, 1981

Estel Martin, 65, of Illinois, a former resident of Stearns and cousin
of Willard Denney of Stearns, died April 30.  Funeral services were
conducted May 3 at 2 p.m. at Gillham - Buchanan Funeral Home with Rev. Jimmy
Walker officiating.  Burial was in Jacksonville, Ill. East Cemetery.

Born Sept. 30, 1915, in Wayne County, Ky., to the late James and Lona
Denney Martin, he was a truck driver for Jenkinson Grocer Company for many
years and was a city bus driver.  He was a member of Harvest Temple
Pentecostal Church and Teamsters Union Local 916.  Also he was a veteran of
World Mar II.  He was married to Hazel Smith, September 1939 in Bowling
Green, Mo.

He is survived by his wife, Hazel Smith, Illinois; six sons; Raymond
Martin, Colorado Springs, Colo., Bill, Earl, Ron and Fred Martin, all of
Jacksonville, Ill., and Wayne Martin, of Springfield,; three daughters,
Phyllis Simmons, Judy Hoots, and Nancy McClure, all of Jacksonville; 20
grandchildren, 2 great - grandchildren; a brother, Harry Martin, and two
sisters, Evaline Everingham, and Lonnie Kitselman, all of Jacksonville.  He
was preceded in death by a brother and sister.

Gillham - Buchanan Funeral Home of Jacksonville, Ill. was in charge of
arrangements.