Martinez obituaries/memorials, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Name, date of obit, date submitted, submitted for the USGenWeb Archives by: Martinez, Clara Cornelia 7 Apr 2000 Apr 2000 Don Johnson Martinez, Eleazer Garcia 29 Jun 2000 Jul 2000 Don Johnson Martinez, Estela Tello 8 Aug 2008 Aug 2008 Jerry Nelson Martinez, George Celestine, Sr. 24 Sep 2000 Oct 2000 Don Johnson Martinez, Jeffery 10 May 2012 May 2012 Jerry Nelson Martinez, Olivetta Mary (Sister Mary Roberta) d.10 Nov 1997 Mar 2001 Don Johnson Martinez, Theodore Louis, Sr. 14 Sep 2006 Sep 2006 Jerry Nelson *************************************************************************** Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) on: 4/7/2000 MARTINEZ, CLARA CORNELIA A homemaker and a resident of Ponchatoula, she died at 12:10 p.m. Thursday, April 6, 2000, at Belle Maison Nursing Home. She was 77 and a native of Wadesboro. Visiting at Geisler Funeral Home, Albany, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and after 8 a.m. Saturday. Religious services at Geisler Funeral Home, Albany, at 10 a.m. Saturday, conducted by Mark Aiena. Interment in Sandhill Cemetery, Ponchatoula. Survived by two sons, George Brandon, Livingston, and Mickey Brandon, Biloxi, Miss.; two sisters, Helen Eblin, Ponchatoula, and Ola Siebert, Florida; 12 grandchildren and numerous great- grandchildren. Preceded in death by four husbands, Louis Martinez, George Brandon Sr., Olah Holden and Cliford McKenzie; a daughter, Loretta Duplessis; two brothers, Earlo Bowman and Buddy Bowman; great-grandchild, Ashley Hodges; and a sister, Clory Bennett. She was of the Jehovah's Witnesses faith. *************************************************************************** Obituary published in The Hammond Daily Star on: 6/29/2000 MARTINEZ, ELEAZAR GARCIA Tickfaw - Eleazar Garcia Martinez, 26, died June 24, 2000, at Lallie Kemp Medical Center following an automobile accident. He was a native of Tancheicuin Veracruz, Mexico. Survivors include his wife, Maria Rodriguez, Tickfaw; son, Eleazar Garcia Martinez Jr.; three sisters, Maria Isabel Garcia, Maria delaluz Paz and Irene Paz, all of Veracruz; three brothers, Roberto Garcia, Tickfaw, Juan Carlos Garcia, Veracruz and Ruperto Paz, Amite; mother, Gaudencia Martinez; father, Lucio Garcia, both of Veracruz. A brother, Israel Paz, preceded him in death. Visitation will be at Richardson Funeral Home today from 4 p.m. until the funeral at 5 p.m. Burial will be in Cementery Municipal SanEstelande, Panvco, Veracruz. *************************************************************************** Obituary published in The Hammond Daily Star on: 8/8/2008 MARTINEZ, ESTELA TELLO Estela Tello Martinez, 55 years old of Independence, died Wednesday, August 6, 2008 in Lallie Kemp Regional Medical Center. She was born on Thursday, February 26, 1953 in Matamoros, Mexico, daughter of the late Bernardino and Sanjuana Galaviz Tello. Surviving are her husband, Martin Martinez and 8 sons, Martin A., Carlos, James A., Saul, Jacinto, Rodolfo, Elias and Nolberto Martinez; daughter, Guadalupe Arispe; 7 sisters and 4 brothers. She is preceded in death by her son, Jesus Martinez. Friends will be received Sunday, August 10, 2008, from 6:00 pm until 10:00 pm at the Harry McKneely & Son Funeral Home in Hammond and on Monday from 8:30 am until 10:00 am at Holy Ghost Catholic Church in Hammond. Services will be held at Holy Ghost Catholic Church, Monday, August 11, 2008 at 10:00 am. Interment will follow in the Colonial Cemetery in Independence. An on-line Guestbook is available at http://www.harrymckneely.com *************************************************************************** Obituary published in The Hammond Daily Star on: 9/24/2000 MARTINEZ, GEORGE CELESTINE SR. Springfield - George Celestine Martinez Sr., 59, died at North Oaks Medical Center Saturday, Sept. 23, 2000. He was a native of Ponchatoula, resident of Springfield and member of St. Margaret's Catholic Church. Survivors include his wife, Laura Martinez, Springfield; two daughters, Theresa Norred, Springfield, and Donna Martinez, Kenner; a son, George Martinez Jr., Springfield; a sister, Carolyn Jubin, Springfield; seven grandchildren and five step-grandchildren. His parents, Marie and Tony "Buddy" Martinez, preceded him in death. Visitation will be at Geisler Funeral Home, Albany, today from 6 until 10 p.m. and Monday from 8 until the funeral at 10 a.m. in the funeral home chapel. Deacon Warren Fortenberry will conduct the service, and burial will be at Carter Cemetery, Springfield. *************************************************************************** Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) on: 5/10/2012 MARTINEZ, JEFFERY "BODINE" Age 49 and a native of Independence, Jeffery "Bodine" Martinez passed away on Tuesday, May 8, 2012 at his residence in Springfield. He was dedicated to his career as a truck driver, and had been since the age of 18. Bodine leaves behind his wife, Sue Martinez; step-sons, John Lawdermilt and wife Detra, David Jozwiak and wife Kelly; step-grandchildren, J.R. and Jeffrey Lawdermilt, Megan and Whitley Jozwiak, Jared, Ashley, Lindsi, and Brittni Gillespie. He is also survived by his step great-grandchildren, Jayce, Jaden, Colton, and Jena Lawdermilt, Carter Jozwiak, and Jackson Gillespie; mother, Ruby Martinez; sister, Shirley Maddox and husband Randy; brother, Danny Martinez. He is also survived by numerous nieces and nephews. Bodine was preceded in death by his father, Leslie Martinez; brother, Bruce Martinez; and grandparents. Relatives and friends of the family are invited to attend the visitation at the chapel of Brandon G. Thompson Funeral Home in Ponchatoula on Thursday, May 10, 2012 from 6 p.m. until 9 p.m. Visitation will resume at the funeral home on Friday from 9 a.m. until the funeral service at 11 a.m. Rev. Mike Vaughn will officiate the service and interment will follow in Carter Cemetery. Condolences and other information are available online at www.thompsoncares.com. Arrangements have been entrusted to Brandon G. Thompson Funeral Home. *************************************************************************** Memorial, Olivetta Mary Martinez (Sister Mary Roberta), Tangipahoa Parish, LA Submitted with permission of Dorothy Dawes, O.P. -- dmdawes@accesscom.net 580 Broadway, New Orleans, LA 70118, 504-861-8155, FAX 504-861-8718 or 865-8079 photos at http://www.dominican-sisters.net/stmarys/memoria/martinez.htm In Memory of [Sr. M. Roberta Martinez] Dominican Sisters Congregation of St. Mary New Orleans Olivetta Mary Martinez April 25, 1905 - November 10, 1997 "Blessed are the pure of heart, for they shall see God." (Matthew, 5:8) The words of Jesus were true of Olivetta, as Sister Mary Jordan said in her preaching. It was a new experience for the community, a funeral without a body. She had willed her body to science in 1973, but it came to most as a surprise. "Awesome," said one. "She was an artist," another recalled, as if to explain. Olivetta was sensitive, multi-talented, unique. Like so many Dominicans, she was first and last an individual. The youngest of nine children, Olivetta grew up in rural Louisiana (Plaquemine, Bunkie). The family later moved to New Orleans where she attended St. Mary's Dominican Academy, finishing eighth grade and then graduating high school in 1924. She enrolled in "City Normal" where in two years she earned a lifetime certificate to teach in public school. Ever at home with the young, kindergarten would be her first choice. From girlhood she had been active in scouting. She loved the outdoors and was a natural organizer, at ease in group activities. In 1928 she was named director of Girl Scouts in New Orleans for a three-year term. In June, 1931, she wrote to the Dominican prioress, Mother Mary Pius McMullen, asking for admission. "I have sweetest memories of my happy school days there... I can no longer resist the grace of God's goodness to me and ... implore you grant me the opportunity to give myself to the service of our Lord and answer 'I come.'" She was twenty-six. As a postulant Olivetta taught seventh grade at St. Matthias, New Orleans. Recalled by a former student, who could not forget the black-bonneted postulants coming to teach: "She played ball with us!" In 1933 she professed vows, and as Sr. Mary Roberta was sent to Independence, Louisiana, to recover from lung congestion, and assigned to teach a class of fourth and fifth grades. She taught three years at St. Anthony, New Orleans, eight at St. Peter, Reserve, Louisiana, and one at St. Agnes, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. In 1946 she was one of three missionary founders to begin a public school staffed by Catholic sisters in Lizana, Mississippi, serving there seven years. She went to Reserve one year, to Holy Ghost in Hammond, Louisiana, the next, returning to Lizana for four years. She was made superior/principal (teaching first grade) at St. Joseph, Paulina, Louisiana, for three years. After a year at St. Matthias and four at St. Leo the Great, New Orleans, she asked to retire from teaching. From 1968 she worked in the library, audio-visual, and mailroom of St. Mary's Dominican College and made uncounted friends there. In 1970 she was featured in the Clarion Herald (Dec. 17, 1970) teaching in the Orleans Parish prison, one-to-one. At the college she tapped into her rich artistic talent, and produced watercolors that won her acclaim as "Dominican's Grandma Moses." In her "spare" time she had taught music, produced stage shows, dressed hundreds of dolls, founded the New Orleans Catholic Kindergarten Association (1962), volunteered for a new federal program called Headstart (1965), taken up yoga, and created countless objects of art and beauty which she gave away. She scattered joy. She taught many children through the years, but no less great was her teaching to those others she encountered from day to day. She taught any who would learn, the meaning of "pure of heart." For they shall see God. *************************************************************************** Obituary published in The Advocate (Baton Rouge) on: 9/14/2006 MARTINEZ, THEODORE LOUIS, SR. "THEO" Retired after 30 years as supervisor for Burnside Terminal, he was entrusted to God's loving care Sunday, Sept. 10, 2006, at Ochsner Foundation Hospital in Metairie. He was 72, a resident of Brusly McCall and a native of Union. Visitation will commence at Ourso Funeral Home, Donaldsonville, Thursday, Sept. 14, from 6 p.m. to 11 p.m. and on Friday, Sept. 15, from 7 a.m. until procession at 10 a.m. Mass of Christian Burial at St. Francis of Assisi Catholic Church, Smoke Bend, at 10:30 a.m., with the Rev. Phil Spano, celebrant. Entombment in the church mausoleum. Survived by his wife of 53 years, Margaret Diez Martinez of Brusly McCall; son, Scott Martinez of St. Amant; three daughters and two sons-in-law, Holly M. Castro and Sammy of Brusly McCall, Stephanie M. Vasquez and Manuel of Brusly McCall, and Toni Martinez of Darrow; two sisters and brothers- in-law, Ann LeBlanc and Lloyd of Clinton and Shirley Husser and Dewitt of Husser; 13 grandchildren, Kadiee, Kandace, Koby, Mallory, Tessa, Shane, Casey, Shannon, Brandon, Mandie, Masie, Brittney and Luke; and three great- grandchildren, Madison, Logan and Lathen. He was preceded in death by his parents, Louisa and Oreana Granier Martinez; son, Theodore Louis Martinez Jr.; brother, Alfred Martinez; and sister, Amma Schexnayder. His grandsons will serve as pallbearers. *************************************************************************** File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/tangipahoa/obits/obitssur/martinez.txt