Edward ‘Marvin’ Martin

Published 10:59 am Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Funeral services for Edward “Marvin” Martin will be Wednesday, Oct. 28, 2015, at 12 p.m. at Riverwood Family Funeral Service with burial at Union Baptist Church Cemetery. Honorary pallbearers will be his grandsons, Ashley, Derek, Alex, John Daniel, Reece, Bradyn, Adrian and Preston Martin, Ira King, Nicore Paquin, Eli Holmes, Chancy, Cory and Chris Wallace. Riverwood Family Funeral Service is in charge of arrangements.

Visitation will be from 5 until 9 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2015, at Riverwood.

Mr. Martin, of East Lincoln, died Sunday Oct. 25, 2015. He was born March 2, 1930, to Edgar Sr. and Bazzie Lee Martin.

Trying to find the words to define our daddy posed a difficult task. It seemed nothing could quite capture, in words, what he meant to us. The more we searched the more apparent it became. We only needed one word: “Daddy”— that one word sums it all up.

When Mr. Webster wrote the dictionary and got to the word “daddy” all he had to do was put a picture of Marvin Martin, and it would have sufficed. There’s never been a kinder, gentler, more loving man that our daddy. He will be greatly missed by us all, but Daddy lived a good, full life. He did it his way. I believe at the end, he was satisfied.

We can just see him arriving in Heaven in a brand new cowboy hat, starched shirt and blue jeans and a new pair of boots, meeting Boone at those pearly gates. Heaven will never be the same. We’ll see you soon Daddy. We love you.

He was preceded in death by his parents; brother Edgar “Jr.” Martin; sister, Bobbye Nell Hart; and son, Danny “Boone” Martin.

Survivors are his sons, Charles Edward Martin, Gordon Martin and wife, Esther, Lance Magee, Roger Martin and wife, Heather, and Steve Gunnell; daughters, Martha Wallace, Rhonda Wallace and husband, Ken, Kelly Barton and Brandi Martin; daughter in love, Marie Martin; brother, Felda C. Martin and wife, Jewell, 22 grandchildren, 18 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews; as well as countless others that called him “paw paw”.

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