Harmon Co. OK Obit for Elmo Price "Moe" Martin 
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Transcribed from the Altus Times http://www.altustimes.com/
For the Harmon County, OK. archives project:
http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/harmon/harmonobits.html 
5/05/2002 by Bill Cook, for the Harmon Co. Okla. Archives.
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Elmo Price "Moe" Martin, 79, died suddenly while working at Jackson County 
Memorial Hospital, snack bar Friday. 

Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Church of the Nazarene in Altus. The 
Rev. T.O. Parsons and the Rev. Gary Buchanan will officiate. 

Martin was born Aug. 27, 1922, in Wellington, Texas to Otis and Sara Frances 
Martin. 

He was reared in the Gould and LaCassa areas near Hollis. He married Thelma 
Carrick Emmert Feb. 12, 1949 at Childress, Texas. 

He served in the United States Army during World War II. Living in Altus since 
1959, he worked as a mechanic at Otasco for 20 years and as a Southwest Transit 
bus driver for 10 years before retiring. 

He was an active member of the Church of the Nazarene in Altus and served many 
years as a Sunday school teacher and on the church board. 

He was a member of the Lions Club for more than 30 years, member of the American 
Legion and was an AARP volunteer. 

He is survived by his wife Thelma Martin of the home in Altus; three children, 
Pauletta Ferguson of Oklahoma City, Fred Emmert and wife Dulan of Lawton and 
Bonita and husband Richard Krepp of Ephrata, Penn.; four grandsons, Kriss and 
Greg Emmert, Russell Krepp and Neil Ferguson; granddaughter Lori Krepp; six 
great-grandchildren; three sisters, Dorma Kirby of Hereford, Texas, Northena 
Eply of Freemont, Calif. and Redonda Staton of Ogden, Utah; many nieces nephews, 
his extended family and many friends. 

He was preceded in death by his parents, three sisters and a brother. The casket 
will be taken to the Church of the Nazarene at 5 p.m. Tuesday and will remain 
their until service time.