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Decla Martin

GUYMON, Okla. - Decla Martin, 81, died Sunday, July 20, 1997.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in First Christian Church with the 
Rev. Frank Springer officiating. Burial will be in Elmhurst Cemetery by 
Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home.

Mrs. Martin was born in Keokuk, Iowa. She moved to Guymon in 1936 from 
Hooker. She graduated from Hooker High School in 1933. She became a member 
of Guymon First Christian Church in 1936.

She was the owner and operator of Martin's Bookkeeping and Tax Service 
from 1942 until retiring in 1979.

She married Cleo Edward Sturdivan in 1936. She married Henry Oliver Martin 
in 1946. He preceded her in death. She also was preceded in death by a 
daughter, Linda Kaye Martin; and a son, Robert Wayne Sturdivan.

Survivors include a daughter, Virginia L. Cleatus of Angel Fire, N.M.; a 
son, Ronald D. Martin of Topeka, Kan.; three stepdaughters, Betty Line of 
Hobbs, N.M., Doris Townsend of Houston, Texas, and Phillis Gorham of Taft, 
Calif.; a sister, Mildred Heard of Guymon; 27 grandchildren; and 25 great-
grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to Dunaway Manor, Guymon Home Health & 
Hospice or the Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center in Amarillo. 
Memorials will be accepted at Bunch-Roberts Funeral Home, P.O. Box 1112, 
Guymon, Okla. 73942.

Amarillo Globe News 23 Jul 1997
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