Lebanon County PA Archives Obituaries.....Martin, Lester N.  November 20, 2009
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  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 11/21/2009 
  Martin, Lester N.    
   
   
  Lester N. Martin PALMYRA Lester Nolt Martin, 91, passed away peacefully at home 
  with his loving wife of 28 years, Lois (Gish) Kurtz Martin, by his side on 
  Friday, November 20, 2009. He was preceded in death by a wife, Eva (Hershey) 
  Martin, on June 5, 1976. He was born Tuesday, April 16, 1918, in Blue Ball, to 
  the late Harry H. and Emma (Nolt) Martin. Lester and Eva started housekeeping 
  in New Holland. He then spent two and a half years with the Civilian Public 
  Service in Luray, Va., and one year with the Dairy Herd Improvement Assoc. in 
  Michigan. After working for Victor F. Weaver, Inc. and then farming in Lebanon 
  County, he worked for ACME Markets for 25 years. Lester and Lois lived in 
  Elizabethtown and attended church at Mt. Calvary Church of Elizabethtown prior 
  to moving to the Lebanon Valley Brethren Home in May 2008. Lester is survived 
  by a son, Larry N. Martin and wife, Diane of Myerstown; two grandsons, Todd N. 
  Martin and wife, Christy of Houston, Texas, and Adam R. Martin and wife, April 
  of Woodbridge, Va.; two greatgranddaughters, Lilly and Grace Martin; one 
  sister, Grace N. Good of Garden Spot Village, New Holland; five stepsons, Barry 
  J. Kurtz and wife, Mary of Adams, Minn., John E. Kurtz and wife, Karen of 
  Antioch, Tenn., David W. Kurtz and wife, Mary, and Fred E. Kurtz and wife, 
  Sandy, all of Elizabethtown, and Edward L. Kurtz of Lititz; one stepdaughter, 
  Janet L. Rhen and husband, James of Quarryville; 14 stepgrandchildren; and 
  seven step greatgrandchildren. He was preceded in death by a brother, Allen N. 
  Martin; and five sisters, Edna N. Nolt, Mary N. Burkholder, Irene N. Martin, 
  Emma N. Landis, and Edith N. Weaver. Funeral services will be held Monday, 
  November 23, 2009, at 10:30 a.m. at the Di Matteo Worship Center, Lebanon 
  Valley Brethren Home, 1200 Grubb St., Palmyra, PA 17078 with Chaplin Norman D. 
  Yeater officiating. Private burial will take place in the Jonestown Bible 
  Church Cemetery, Jonestown. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be 
  made to Lebanon Valley Brethren Home or Pinnacle Health Hospice, 2465 N. Third 
  St., Suite 300, Harrisburg, PA 17110. Rothermel Funeral Home & Cremation 
  Services, Inc., 25 W. Pine St., Palmyra, has been entrusted with the 
  arrangements.  
  Published in the Lebanon Daily News on 11/21/2009  
  
  
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