Norfolk City Virginia USGenWeb Archives Obituaries.....Martin, Bettie Love Gresham July 19, 1910
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Virginian Pilot July 21, 1910

Mrs. Bettie Love Martin, mother of Alvah H. Martin, died at the cottage of her 
son, Willoughby Beach, Tuesday night, aged 72 years.
Mrs. Martin came to Norfolk Tuesday and later went to Berkley to visit relatives 
and was to all appearances in her usual health. After returning to her home at 
Willoughby Beach she felt somewhat fatigued and retired at an early hour to her 
room for sleep.
Two hours later some of the family went to her room and found that she had 
passed to the spirit world.
The deceased was the widow of the late Col. James G. Martin, who preceded her to 
the grave in 1880. Before her marriage she was Miss Bettie Love Gresham, 
daughter of Thomas B. Gresham, of Norfolk County.
She was a woman of a rare type of character, adorned with many beautiful and 
lovely traits, the claims of which were as an alabaster ornament that adorned 
and beautified the lives of those by whom she was surrounded. As a Christian, 
she was guileless in life, as a mother loving and tender in her devotion to her 
children, by whom she was loved and idolized.
She is survived by a brother, Thos. B. Gresham, postmaster of Berkley, and three 
children, Alvah H. Martin, George G. Martin and Mrs. S.W. Lyons, wife of S.W. 
Lyons, treasurer of Norfolk County.
The funeral will take place from the residence of Alvah H. Martin Friday 
afternoon at 4 o'clock. The services will be conducted by Rev. George E. Booker, 
pastor of Epworth M.E. Church and the interment will be made in Magnolia 
Cemetery.
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The sudden death of Mrs. Bettie Martin, which occurred at Willoughby Beach 
yesterday proved quite a shock to her friends in Berkley Ward, where she spent 
the greater portion of her life.
Mrs. Martin was in Berkley Tuesday and talked with several friends.
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MARTIN - Suddenly at the residence of her son, Alvah H. Martin, Willoughby 
Beach, Va., Tuesday, July 19, 1910, at 9:30 o'clock p.m., Mrs. BETTIE L. MARTIN, 
widow of Col. James G. Martin, of Norfolk County, Va., in the 73d year of her 
age.
Funeral services FRIDAY, July 22, 1910, from 228 Fairfax Avenue, Norfolk, at 4 
o'clock p.m. Friends of the family are invited to attend. Interment, Magnolia 
Cemetery, Berkley Ward.

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