Erma Snell Martin
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Posted by: Holman Mortuaries
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Date: Oct 27 2014 11:05 AM
BERTHA COMMUNITY. . .Erma Virginia Snell Martin, a resident of the Bertha Community of Dale County, died late Sunday afternoon, October 26, 2014, in the Ozark Health & Rehab. Mrs. Martin was born January 28, 1918, in the Asbury Community of Dale County, Alabama. She was the daughter of the late James Millard Snell and Claudia Chambers Snell. After her family moved to Ozark, she became a practical nurse who cared for many mothers and their newborn babies.
Funeral services will be held at 11:00 A.M. Wednesday, October 29, 2014, in the New Hope Baptist Church with Reverend Shane Traylor and Reverend Ben Amlong officiating, and a eulogy to be given by a grandson, Timothy Galloway. Burial will follow in the church cemetery. Holman-Headland Mortuary is in charge of funeral arrangements. The family will receive friends from 5:00 until 7:00 P.M. Tuesday at the mortuary in Headland and also from 10:00 until 11:00 A.M. Wednesday in the church sanctuary.
Flowers will be accepted or memorial contributions may be made to the New Hope Baptist Church or to the New Hope Baptist Cemetery Fund, both c/o Billy R. Grantham, 826 County Road 7, Skipperville, AL 36374.
In May 1939, Nurse Erma Snell, with specific instructions from Dr. Holman, went to the Bertha Community to care for an infant whose mother had died on the morning of her birth. She later married the child’s father, John D. “J.D.” Martin, of the Bertha Community in Dale County, Alabama, and became the loving mother of his little daughter, Manonia. Erma and J. D. later had two daughters, Virginia Ann Martin, and Nancy Juanita Martin.
The family lived in the Bertha Community where J. D. and Erma owned and operated the Bertha Self Service Grocery Store for more than forty years before their retirement in the late 1980’s. Both were lifetime members of the New Hope Baptist Church.
Since 2003, “Miss Erma” had been a resident of the Ozark Health & Rehabilitation Facility where her radiant smile and congenial personality blessed many of those who came in daily contact with her. The family acknowledges deep appreciation for the love and care that was given to their Mother by the staff and administration of the Ozark Health & Rehabilitation Facility, Gentiva Hospice, and Taylor Caffey, M.D.
Mrs. Martin was preceded in death by her husband, J. D. Martin, her parents, Millard and Claudia Snell, and all her siblings (and their mates), Lucille Baldwin, Roy Snell, Harvey Snell, Laura Jane Hollon, Lois Skipper, Willie Belle Judah, Hettie Hughes, Elsie McGill, and Kenneth Snell.
She was a kind and loving mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, and a great-great-grandmother. She is survived by her three daughters, Manonia Snell (Jessie Thomas Snell), Skipperville; Ann Galloway (Lamar Galloway), Bertha Community; Nancy Gast (Douglas Gast), Bertha Community; her two grandchildren, Timothy Galloway (Timberly “MiMi”), Skipperville; Brandi Rogers (Chad Golbis), Madison, WI; her three great-grandchildren, Alycia Galloway Frazier, Auburn; Cara Galloway Snyder (Charles), Ft. Rucker; Orin Galloway, Auburn; her three great-great-grandchildren, David Snyder, Fort Rucker; Kinley Snyder, Fort Rucker, and Lyla Frazier, Auburn; and numerous nieces and nephews in both the Snell and Martin families.
HOLMAN-HEADLAND MORTUARY IS IN CHARGE OF ARRANGEMENTS. Phone 334-693-3371. You may sign a guest register at www.holmanmortuaries.com.
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