Dawson-Custer County NeArchives Obituaries.....Martin, Pearl LaVonne September 24, 2009
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Lexington Clipper-Herald Sept. 26, 2009
Pearl LaVonne Martin, 79, of Lexington, died Thursday, Sept. 24, 2009, at
Tri-County Hospital in Lexington. 

Funeral Services will be Monday, Sept. 28, 2009, at 10:00 a.m. at the Berean
Bible Church in Lexington with Pastor Glenn Johnson officiating. 
  
Burial will be in the Evergreen Cemetery at Lexington.

Visitation will be held Sunday, Sept. 27, 2009, from 2-4 p.m. at Reynolds-Love
Funeral Home in Lexington.

Survivors include two sons, Charles (Anita) Martin of Lexington, Gayle (Joanna)
Martin of Almena, Kan.; one sister, Phyllis (Rodney) Kratzer of Lexington; nine
grandchildren, Jeremy (Gail) Martin of Hershey, Bryce (Valerie) Martin of Grand
Junction, Iowa; Amy Martin of Ames, Iowa, Trevor (Rachel) Martin of Manhattan,
Kan., Cory Martin of Almena, Kan., Nathan Martin of Dodge City, Kan.,Braden
Kersch of Grand Island, Richie Kersch of Norton, Kan., Brianna Martin of Almena,
Kan., and four great-granchildren, Chase Elliott Martin and Regan Michelle
Martin of Hershey, Landon Jacob and Callie Noel Martin of Grand Junction, Iowa.   

Pearl was preceded in death by her parents; her husband Clifford; brother Jim
Stockham; sisters, Shirley Nelsen, Doris Jean Wackerla, and Charlene Kay
Stockham; brothers-in-law, Frank Wackerla, Keith, Kenneth and Don Eggleston and
Jim Davis.

She was born July 6, 1930, at Oconto to Clarence and Vera Mae (Lovitt) Stockham.
 Verna Mae died in 1933, when Pearl was not quite three and her sister, Shirley
was nine months old, from scarlet fever.  Her father then married Verna
Marguerite Flint. 

She grew up on the farm and graduated from Oconto High School in 1947.  Pearl
received a teaching certificate from Kearney State Teacher’s College and then
taught school in the Callaway and Oconto area.  She talked fondly of staying in
the students’ homes during the school week and during severe weather.  

Pearl married Clifford A. Martin, Jr. on Feb. 18, 1951.  Two sons were blessed
to this union: Charles and Gayle. 

They farmed near Callaway for one year and near Oconto for three years before
moving to the Lexington area in 1955.  Pearl contracted polio in 1952 and spent
a number of months hospitalized.  She used crutches for the rest of her life as
a result of the polio.  When she first saw the poem “Footprints” she thought it
was for her during her polio.  

Pearl and Clifford joined the Berean Bible Church in 1960.  She taught Sunday
school to the two and three year olds for many years.  



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