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Margie Ruth Edwards Martin
12 Dec 1930 – 13 Jul 2019
| Birth | 12 Dec 1930 |
| Death | 13 Jul 2019 |
| Cemetery | Flatwoods Cemetery Flatwoods , Rapides Parish , Louisiana , USA |
| Added by | Wylie Blackwell on 15 Jul 2019 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/201168130 |
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Funeral services for Mrs. Margie Ruth Martin will be held at 2:00 p.m., on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, in the Chapel of Rush Funeral Home, Pineville, with Reverend Roger George officiating. Interment will follow in Flatwoods Cemetery, Flatwoods, under the direction of Rush Funeral Home, Pineville. Mrs. Martin, 88, of Mora, entered eternal rest on Saturday, July 13, 2019, at Matthews Memorial Nursing Home, Alexandria, LA. She was a native of Flatwoods and a longtime resident of Mora. She worked as a ward clerk for Cabrini Hospital for many years and retired as a secretary from T. L. James Timber Company. She was also a volunteer firefighter and an EMS Tech with Flatwoods Fire Department and a substitute teacher at Northwood High School. Her hobbies included painting, quilting, cooking and baking. She was a member of Spanish Branch Baptist Church and will be deeply missed by all who knew and loved her. She is preceded in death by her parents, Thomas and Azilie Edwards; her loving husband of over sixty years, Alton Martin; three brothers, L.D. Edwards, L.T. Edwards and L.E. Edwards; five sisters, Una V. White, Ethel Edwards, Jessie Lee Eznack, Juanita Manning and Mellonee Ramsey; and one son-in-law, Jack Bowden. Those left to mourn her loss and cherish her memory include three daughters, Patsy Basco and her husband, Junior, of Alexandria, Sue Bowden, of Denham Springs and Gay Lawing, of Gardner; one sister, Rose Clayton, of Charleston, S.C.; two sisters-in-law, Essie Martin, of Simpson and Betty Edwards, of Alexandria; nine grandchildren, twenty-eight great grandchildren and seven great-great grandchildren. Friends may call at Rush Funeral Home, Pineville, on Wednesday, July 17, 2019, from 10:00 a.m. until time of service. Pallbearers honored to serve are: Calvin Bowden, Charles Bowden, Aaron Lawing, Daryn Chabot, Taylor Bowden and Trey Schexnayder. Honorary pallbearers will be her great grandsons. In lieu of flowers the family request donations be made to Shriners Hospitals for Children — Shreveport, Attn: Development Office, 3100 Samford Ave., Shreveport, LA 71103 or at www.lovetotherescue.org. Friends may post online messages of condolences for the Martin family by visiting www.rushfh.com.
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- Ethel Edwards Edwards 1912–1978
- Leon Ernest "Red" Edwards 1914–1988
- Una V Edwards White 1918–1963
- Jessie Lee Edwards Eznack 1920–2006
- Juanita Marie Edward Manning 1924–1984
- Leonard Thomas "T-Tom - L T" Edwards 1928–2000
- L D Edwards 1935–1935
- Mellonee Edwards Ramsey 1936–2019
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