Rock Springs Miner, Aug 17, 1952
DAVID MUIR MARTIN
The funeral of David M. Martin, 54, will be held from the Villanova funeral home at 3 o’clock this afternoon and the body will be taken to Salt Lake City for cremation. The Rev. Frank M. Blish of the First Congregational church will conduct the rites and the American Legion Archie Hay post will stand guard and present the colors.
Mr. Martin died Wednesday at Sweetwater Memorial hospital. He was a veteran of both World War I and World War II and had been in ill health for a number of years. He entered the veterans hospital in Cheyenne in February and from there was sent to the Fitzsimons in Denver where he remained until eight days before his death. He entered the hospital here on Monday before he died.
Born Jan. 19, 1898, in Lonaconing, Md., David Muir Martin came to Rock Springs in 1911 and worked as a switchman for the Union Pacific railroad at Green River for several years. He served in a railroad battalion in World War II and in the navy in World War I.
Survivors are his wife, Mildred Pauly Martin, whom he married here in 1923; three brothers, William of San Francisco who presently is on Guam with a construction company, Robert of Butte who was unable to come to Rock Springs because of illness, and John Martin of Rock Springs; one sister, Mrs. John Shrum of Glen’s Ferry, Ida., who came to Rock Springs when advised of his death; a nephew, Peter Muir Sr., of Rock Springs, and two nieces, Mrs. Harry Cook of Rock Springs and Mrs. Art Rosene of Pinedale.
DAVID MUIR MARTIN
The funeral of David M. Martin, 54, will be held from the Villanova funeral home at 3 o’clock this afternoon and the body will be taken to Salt Lake City for cremation. The Rev. Frank M. Blish of the First Congregational church will conduct the rites and the American Legion Archie Hay post will stand guard and present the colors.
Mr. Martin died Wednesday at Sweetwater Memorial hospital. He was a veteran of both World War I and World War II and had been in ill health for a number of years. He entered the veterans hospital in Cheyenne in February and from there was sent to the Fitzsimons in Denver where he remained until eight days before his death. He entered the hospital here on Monday before he died.
Born Jan. 19, 1898, in Lonaconing, Md., David Muir Martin came to Rock Springs in 1911 and worked as a switchman for the Union Pacific railroad at Green River for several years. He served in a railroad battalion in World War II and in the navy in World War I.
Survivors are his wife, Mildred Pauly Martin, whom he married here in 1923; three brothers, William of San Francisco who presently is on Guam with a construction company, Robert of Butte who was unable to come to Rock Springs because of illness, and John Martin of Rock Springs; one sister, Mrs. John Shrum of Glen’s Ferry, Ida., who came to Rock Springs when advised of his death; a nephew, Peter Muir Sr., of Rock Springs, and two nieces, Mrs. Harry Cook of Rock Springs and Mrs. Art Rosene of Pinedale.
Rock Springs Miner, Aug 17, 1952
DAVID MUIR MARTIN
The funeral of David M. Martin, 54, will be held from the Villanova funeral home at 3 o’clock this afternoon and the body will be taken to Salt Lake City for cremation. The Rev. Frank M. Blish of the First Congregational church will conduct the rites and the American Legion Archie Hay post will stand guard and present the colors.
Mr. Martin died Wednesday at Sweetwater Memorial hospital. He was a veteran of both World War I and World War II and had been in ill health for a number of years. He entered the veterans hospital in Cheyenne in February and from there was sent to the Fitzsimons in Denver where he remained until eight days before his death. He entered the hospital here on Monday before he died.
Born Jan. 19, 1898, in Lonaconing, Md., David Muir Martin came to Rock Springs in 1911 and worked as a switchman for the Union Pacific railroad at Green River for several years. He served in a railroad battalion in World War II and in the navy in World War I.
Survivors are his wife, Mildred Pauly Martin, whom he married here in 1923; three brothers, William of San Francisco who presently is on Guam with a construction company, Robert of Butte who was unable to come to Rock Springs because of illness, and John Martin of Rock Springs; one sister, Mrs. John Shrum of Glen’s Ferry, Ida., who came to Rock Springs when advised of his death; a nephew, Peter Muir Sr., of Rock Springs, and two nieces, Mrs. Harry Cook of Rock Springs and Mrs. Art Rosene of Pinedale.
DAVID MUIR MARTIN
The funeral of David M. Martin, 54, will be held from the Villanova funeral home at 3 o’clock this afternoon and the body will be taken to Salt Lake City for cremation. The Rev. Frank M. Blish of the First Congregational church will conduct the rites and the American Legion Archie Hay post will stand guard and present the colors.
Mr. Martin died Wednesday at Sweetwater Memorial hospital. He was a veteran of both World War I and World War II and had been in ill health for a number of years. He entered the veterans hospital in Cheyenne in February and from there was sent to the Fitzsimons in Denver where he remained until eight days before his death. He entered the hospital here on Monday before he died.
Born Jan. 19, 1898, in Lonaconing, Md., David Muir Martin came to Rock Springs in 1911 and worked as a switchman for the Union Pacific railroad at Green River for several years. He served in a railroad battalion in World War II and in the navy in World War I.
Survivors are his wife, Mildred Pauly Martin, whom he married here in 1923; three brothers, William of San Francisco who presently is on Guam with a construction company, Robert of Butte who was unable to come to Rock Springs because of illness, and John Martin of Rock Springs; one sister, Mrs. John Shrum of Glen’s Ferry, Ida., who came to Rock Springs when advised of his death; a nephew, Peter Muir Sr., of Rock Springs, and two nieces, Mrs. Harry Cook of Rock Springs and Mrs. Art Rosene of Pinedale.
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