Mr. P. O. Martin died 06 Oct 1970

MARTIN, METIER, INGRAM

Posted By: Volunteer - Karen DaPra
Date: 10/2/2001 at 22:07:00

OBITUARIES

P. O. MARTIN (with photograph of him)

P. O. Martin, 81 [could be 84], of 1433 Wilson Ave., died at the Iowa Soldiers' Home in Marshalltown of a heart attack Tuesday after a three year illness.

Born at Union, Neb., he lived in Des Moines 53 years and previously, at Keosauqua. He was a graduate of Keosauqua High School and had retired as an employe at the Iowa State Historical Building. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Baldwin Patterson Post, American Legion. He was a member of the Catholic Church.

Services will be at 9 a.m. Thursday at St. Ambrose Cathedral, with burial at Highland Memory Gardens. A rosary will be recited at 7 o'clock tonight at Caldwell Brien-Robbins Funeral Home.

Survivors are his wife, Ruth; a brother, William of Des Moines, and two sisters, Mrs. Katherine Metier and Mrs. Helen Ingram, both of Des Moines.

(Photocopy of this obit is located on page 280 of Obit Bk #1 1963-1974 found in the Van Buren County, IA Genealogical Society's collection at the Keosauqua Public Library in July 1999. Name of newspaper and date of obit not given, however handwritten on the obit is "10-7-70". Also handwritten is "Bk 1 pg 40" and "10-6" is written next to death day of Tuesday.) ORIGINAL POST 30 Sep 1999.

I am NOT related to Mr. P. O. Martin and am posting his obit for those who may find him in their family history.