Evansville Courier - GEORGE CLINT MARTIN, 82, a retired Navy officer and attorney, died at St. Mary's Hospital yesterday at 8:30 a.m.
Mr. Martin of 518 Main in Newburgh was a pioneer in submarine testing in the Navy. At the beginning of World War II he was forced to retire from the service because of illness but convinced authorities to assign him to the Evansville Shipyards where he was in charge of diesel installation.
Mr. Martin and his late brother, Warren W. Martin, opened law offices in Boonville and Newburgh. Warren Martin was later to become the Boonville prosecutor and finally judge of the Indiana appellate Court in Indianapolis.
Mr. Martin was a member of the American legion Kapperman Post, the Newburgh Masonic Lodge and Sharon Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Charlotta; a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Hurst of Clarksville, Ind.; nieces and nephews.
Friends may call after 6 p.m. today at Simpson Funeral Home where services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. [Tues, Aug 4, 1970].
Mr. Martin of 518 Main in Newburgh was a pioneer in submarine testing in the Navy. At the beginning of World War II he was forced to retire from the service because of illness but convinced authorities to assign him to the Evansville Shipyards where he was in charge of diesel installation.
Mr. Martin and his late brother, Warren W. Martin, opened law offices in Boonville and Newburgh. Warren Martin was later to become the Boonville prosecutor and finally judge of the Indiana appellate Court in Indianapolis.
Mr. Martin was a member of the American legion Kapperman Post, the Newburgh Masonic Lodge and Sharon Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Charlotta; a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Hurst of Clarksville, Ind.; nieces and nephews.
Friends may call after 6 p.m. today at Simpson Funeral Home where services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. [Tues, Aug 4, 1970].
Evansville Courier - GEORGE CLINT MARTIN, 82, a retired Navy officer and attorney, died at St. Mary's Hospital yesterday at 8:30 a.m.
Mr. Martin of 518 Main in Newburgh was a pioneer in submarine testing in the Navy. At the beginning of World War II he was forced to retire from the service because of illness but convinced authorities to assign him to the Evansville Shipyards where he was in charge of diesel installation.
Mr. Martin and his late brother, Warren W. Martin, opened law offices in Boonville and Newburgh. Warren Martin was later to become the Boonville prosecutor and finally judge of the Indiana appellate Court in Indianapolis.
Mr. Martin was a member of the American legion Kapperman Post, the Newburgh Masonic Lodge and Sharon Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Charlotta; a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Hurst of Clarksville, Ind.; nieces and nephews.
Friends may call after 6 p.m. today at Simpson Funeral Home where services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. [Tues, Aug 4, 1970].
Mr. Martin of 518 Main in Newburgh was a pioneer in submarine testing in the Navy. At the beginning of World War II he was forced to retire from the service because of illness but convinced authorities to assign him to the Evansville Shipyards where he was in charge of diesel installation.
Mr. Martin and his late brother, Warren W. Martin, opened law offices in Boonville and Newburgh. Warren Martin was later to become the Boonville prosecutor and finally judge of the Indiana appellate Court in Indianapolis.
Mr. Martin was a member of the American legion Kapperman Post, the Newburgh Masonic Lodge and Sharon Baptist Church.
Surviving are his wife, Charlotta; a sister, Mrs. Gertrude Hurst of Clarksville, Ind.; nieces and nephews.
Friends may call after 6 p.m. today at Simpson Funeral Home where services will be conducted Sunday at 2 p.m. Burial will be in Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Va. [Tues, Aug 4, 1970].
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Birth year on stone is incorrect. He was born in 1887, not 1885.
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