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- Decatur Daily - September 25, 1979 Mrs. Annie Martin MOULTON -- Funeral for Mrs. Annie Lee Black Martin, 70, of Rt. 1, Town Creek, who died Monday at the Moulton Nursing Home, will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Elliott Funeral Home Chapel, Revs. Jimmy Glenn and O.D. Bowling officiating, with burial in the Landersville Cemetery, Elliott Funeral Home directing. Survivors include her husband, Rush K. Martin, Town Creek, one daughter, Mrs. Roger Hill, Decatur; two grandchildren; one sister, Mrs. Roland Cross, Courtland; one brother, Taylor Black, Moulton. Pallbearers will be Jimmy Waldrop, Earl Malcolm Jr., Harold Lovis Martin, Ronnie Joe Martin, Jack Wilson, Willard Dewayne Blankenship and Farrell Little. Mrs. Martin was a member of the Landersville Methodist Church. The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6 to 9 tonight. ********************************************************************** ********** Melba Harding Black Cross wrote the following about her Sister in 1987 Annie Lenora Black Martin 1908 - 1979 Annie Lee was a good sister, she finished Lawrence County High School, choose not to attend college. She was gregarious, spirited, and vivacious. She loved music, singing, dancing, sports, high school basketball, swimming, horseback riding and reading. She married Rush King Martin, farming heritage, born and raised in Lawrence County Alabama in Mount Hope. They had one daughter, Martha Ann, and two grand-children. They bought a farm a few miles north of Landersville. They lived all of their life save a few years during WWII when Rusk was employed as a firemen at Air Bases and Fields in South Carolina and Florida. She was a faithful member and organist at Landersville Methodist Church for years. She taught a Sunday School Class. She was a member of the Lawrence County Homemakers Club. Our family gatherings were never again as jolly without her.
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