Delores Pauline Martin 1926-2009

GOODALE, FLEMING, MARTIN, ALDERSON, ONEEL

Posted By: Mary Durr (email)
Date: 1/1/2010 at 17:53:02

Delores P. Martin, 83, of Rochester, MN, formerly of Dorchester, died Thursday, December 10, 2009 at St. Mary’s Hospital in Rochester, MN. Funeral services were held Monday, December 14 at Martin Funeral Home in Waukon, with Rev. Richard Iles officiating. Burial was in Dorchester Methodist Cemetery, Dorchester.

Delores Pauline Martin was born April 14, 1926 in Redfield, SD, the daughter of Fay and Helen Julia (Goodale) Fleming. She attended elementary school in Marshall, MN and Pipestone, MN, and graduated from high school in Portland, OR in 1944. March 4, 1944 she married Chester Martin in Greeley, CO.

Delores worked at the Argus Camera Company and later at Control Data in Spring Grove, MN. She also worked as a cook for the Dorchester School. Delores moved back to Portland, OR in 1978, where she worked at Farmers Insurance Company before retiring to Rochester, MN in 1991. She enjoyed crocheting, jig saw puzzles, working word puzzles and was an avid reader.

Survivors include a son, Roger (Kathy) Martin of Rochester, MN; two grandchildren, Kari (Craig) Ratz and their children, Alexander, Julia and Andrew (Drew) of Lino Lakes, MN and Brian (Sarah) Martin and their daughter Sophia of Appleton, MN; and a sister, Kathleen (Michael) Alderson of Sandy, OR.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Chester, who died in 1977; a daughter, Sheryl Martin; a sister, Shirley O’Neel; and a brother, Jerry Fleming.

Casketbearers were Craig Ratz, Brian, Walter and Kermit Martin, Duane Wenig and David Dunnum.

Waukon, Iowa newspaper, THE STANDARD, December 16, 2009.
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