Patrick County Virginia USGenWeb Archives News.....Austin C. "Nick" Martin October 17, 1997
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Martinsville Bulletin October 17, 1997
  Austin C. "Nick" Martin 75 of the Fairystone State Park community of Patrick 
County died Thursday, October 16, 1997 at Memorial Hospital of Martinsville and 
Henry County after an illness.
  He was born on April 23, 1922 in the Puppy Creek section of Patrick County, 
the second son of the late Charlie Bishop Martin and Lila Elizabeth Bryant 
Martin.
  He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Michael (Debbie) Shelton of Patrick 
Springs and Mrs. Gary (Susie) Easter also of Patrick Springs as well as his 
three grandchildren. He was also survived by a brother Amos Lee Martin of Stuart 
and Hallie Mae Martin Lawson also of Stuart. He was preceded in death by a 
brother Joseph Warren Martin.
  In December 1942 he entered the United States Air Force and eventually became 
a Sergeant serving during World War II and remained in the Air Force until 1946.
After returning to civilian life, he married Shirley Lee Shelton in October, 
1953. Soon thereafter they purchased a store on Route 57 from Charlie and Iowa 
Morrison near Fairystone State Park and he operated A.C. Martin's Grocery until 
his health would no longer allow it. Many of the residents in the community kept 
their vehicles filled with the Gulf gasoline that was personally pumped by him. 
It was the social hub of the community as many loggers traveled in and out of 
the store on a daily basis and you could also drink a cold Sun Drop while 
sitting on the Coke box with a bag of Planters peanuts with WMVA playing on the 
radio.
  The funeral will be conducted at 2 PM on Saturday, October 18 at the chapel at 
Moody Funeral Service in Stuart. The Elder L.J. Brammer and the Reverend Paul 
Estes will officiate.
The burial will take place in the Foley-Rorrer Cemetery on Heidelbach School 
Road near the graves of both of his parents. Military rites will be conducted by 
the Patrick County Veterans Memorial Honor Guard.
The family will receive friends from 7 PM until 9 PM at Moody Funeral Service 
and at other times at the home of Donna Thomas near the Martin home.

Additional Comments:
Much of this article appeared in the Martinsville Bulletin but I also wrote some 
more information when I posted this on Find A Grave.  So part of this is from a 
copyrighted source and others are personal things that I added as I was his 
nephew.

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