Winn-Ouachita Parish Louisiana Archives Obituaries.....Martin, Mary Magdalene "Maggie" Simmons March 23, 1980
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April 2, 1980 Winn Parish Enterprise News-American
Maggie Martin

Mrs. Mary Magdalene Simmons Martin passed to her Eternal Reward on Sunday, 
March 23, 1980 at the West Monroe Guest House in West Monroe.

Mrs. Martin was known to her friends and family as Maggie.  She was the eldest 
child of Mr. and Mrs. William Mason Simmonses' nine children and was born on 
December 3, 1889, making her 90 years old.

She had given up her home in West Monroe about five years ago and had lived in 
the Guest House since.

When she was a young woman she attended Hudson College where she prepared 
herself to teach.  She also attended summer sessions at La. Tech and now 
Northwestern State College.  She taught in the rural schools of Winn Parish a 
number of years ago.

Just a few years ago her eldest son Bruce asked her what she wished for 
Christmas and she quickly told him she wanted a set of McGuffey Readers.  Since 
he travels to large hospitals all over the southeastern U. S. as an 
anethesiologist he was able to find her two of the set which she enjoyed a good 
many months prior to her death.  This was the main books she taught.

She married John T. Martin who preceded her in death as did her second Charles 
Mason Martin. 

Survivors include four sons, Doyle Bruce Martin of Nashville, Tennessee, 
Douglas Martin, Connie Martin, and Huey Martin, all of West Monroe; 13 
grandchildren, 18 great grandchildren, and three brothers, W. V. Simmons of 
West Monroe, Guy Simmons of Parkview Nursing Home in Winnfield, and K. C. 
Simmons of Dodson and a host of nieces and nephews.

Her pall-bearers were her grandsons.  The funeral was in Kilpatrick Funeral 
Home in West Monroe.  Interment was in Roselawn Cemetery just out of Monroe on 
Tuesday, March 25, 1980.

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