Obit: Martha Davis Plummer, 2000, Lincoln Parish, LA  
Submitted by: Dorothy Rinehart Taylor, 111 Racove Drive, West Monroe, LA 71291




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   The Ruston Daily Leader, Thursday, January 6, 2000

              Martha Davis Plummer
                                
BOSSIER CITY --- Services for Mrs. Martha Davis Plummer will be
held in the Chapel of Hill Crest Funeral Home Friday, January 7,
2000, at 10 a.m. Officiating the service will be Rev. Larry Dean of
Mississippi.

Interment will be in the Hill Crest Memorial Park under the
direction of Hill Crest Funeral Home.

The family will be receiving friends at the funeral home Thursday
evening from 4 until 6 p.m.

Mrs. Plummer passed away Tuesday in a local hospital.  She was born
on July 25, 1925, in Ruston.  She began her teaching career at
Bossier City High School in the late 1940's.  There, through mutual
friends, she met her husband, James B. Plummer, Jr. They traveled
to Arkansas where she taught briefly, then returned to Bossier City
in 1953 to teach in Caddo Parish.  She taught at Woodlawn in 1960
when they first opened until she retired in 1973. Mrs. Plummer
enjoyed her retirement years outdoors with her family,
grandchildren, and the bigfoot Hunting Club. She was a member of
the First Methodist Church in Bossier City.  Mrs. Plummer was
preceded in death by her parents, Dr. Paul M. Davis and Lillie Mae
Sentell Davis of Ruston.

Surviving her is her loving husband of 49 years, James B. Plummer,
Jr.; sons, James B. Plummer III and wife Diane, Paul M. Plummer and
wife Janet, Kenneth L. Plummer and fiance' Jo Campbell;
grandchildren, Sarah, Allison, Elizabeth, Jayme, and James B.
Plummer, IV, all of Bossier City; a sister, Lillie Beth Webb of
Colorado Springs, Colo., a brother, Dr. Paul M. Davis and wife
Frances Bolton Davis of Alexandria; and numerous nieces and
nephews.

Pallbearers will be Bubba Barefield, Jim Nance, Robert McNaughton,
Dan Haugen, Lynn Arnold, John Thomson, Buddy Bolton, and Glenn
Grannan.

Honorary pallbearers will be John Bean and Scott Messer.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made to
The Shriner's Hospital for Children, 3100 Samford Ave., Shreveport,
La., 71103.