Beckham County, OK - Obits: Jo Ann Elizabeth Martin, 1930
10 July 2008
Submitted by: delma25@pldi.net (Delma Tindell)

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MARTIN, JO ANN ELIZABETH
(30 Jan 1930, Thursday, Sayre Headlight, Sayre, Beckham Co, OK):
Funeral services for Jo Ann Elizabeth Martin, 14, who passed away at the
family home four and one-half miles north of Sayre at 8:30 o'clock Sunday
evening, after an illness of about ten days, were held at the First
Methodist Church in Sayre at two o'clock Tuesday afternoon.  Rev. T. N.
Weeks, pastor of the church and Rev. J. M. Jones, pastor of New Liberty
and Berlin, conducted the services.
Interment was made in the Doxey Sayre cemetery, Littrell and Moore funeral
directors were in charge.
Obituary
Miss Joe Ann Martin, daughter of Mrs. C. A. Martin, died at 8:30 p.m.,
Sunday January 26, 1930, after a short illness.
She was born March 26, 1915, and departed from this world January 26,
1930, age 14 years and ten months.  She was converted at a tender age and
lived a devoted christian life ever ready to do God's service.  She seemed
to realize that to live a christian life meant a home in heaven where she
would be reunited with her father that had gone on before.  He was pastor
of the Short Creek Methodist church at the time of his death.  She was
always a good girl even before her conversion.  She was ever obedient to
her parents.
She was captain of the Short Creek Sunday school at the time of her death.
She leaves to mourn her passing, a mother, Mrs. C. A. Martin, two
brothers, Clovis Martin and Flodger Martin of Sayre and six sisters, Mrs.
T. A. Clark, Blue, N.M., Mrs. John Coffey, Tulsa; Mrs. Cecil Willis,
Sayre; Mrs. Andrew Armstrong, Sayre and Wanda Martin and other near
relatives and a host of friends at Sayre.

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