Allegheny County PA Archives Obituaries.....Franks, Ethel Margaret Martin January 4, 2000
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Pittsburgh Post Gazette and Columbus (OH) Dispatch, 7 Jan 2000
FRANKS, ETHEL MARTIN

On Tues., Jan. 4, 2000; in Miami, FL, Ethel Martin Franks, 92; formerly of Ross
Twp.; preceded in death by her husband Harold L. Franks; she is survived by
loving daughter Linda Franks Beebe & her husband Andrew Lawrence Bennett of
Miami; a brother Roy Martin of NE; sisters Isabel Regan, Dorothy Gleichmann &
Mildred Goodell, all of NY and Alice Sava of OR; and by many nieces and nephews.
Also preceded in death by brothers Harry & Charles Martin and sisters Amy
Candage & Ruth Martin. Mrs. Franks was born in St. John's New Brunswick, Canada
on Feb. 10, 1907 to Percy & Margaret Maxwell Martin. Naturalized in 1934;
married to Harold in 1935. Mrs. Franks graduated as a registered nurse from
Prospect Heights Hospital and Brooklyn Maternity in 1929. She began her career
in private duty in Brooklyn.  After moving to Pittsburgh in 1942, she later
worked for the Head Start Program, Planned Parenthood and then the Allegheny
County Health Dept. She was a member of the North Borough's Women's Club and
helped to constitute the North Hills Chapter #526 Order of the Eastern Star
where she was a charter member. She was also a member of the Critique Club of
Crafton, the Prospect Heights Hospital Alumni Association, The Sedgwick Maine
High School Alumni Association and the West View United Methodist Church.
Friends invited Sat. from 11 am until time of Services at 1 pm in THE ORION C.
PINKERTON FUNERAL HOME, INC., 1014 California Avenue Avalon, (North Boros).OES
Services on Sat. at 12:45 pm. Interment Allegheny County Memorial Park, McCandless.

Original obituary published in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette, Friday, January 7,
2000


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