Doris Arline MARTIN

MARTIN, YOUNG, HOSSELTON, BROWN, PUTZIER, BARRETT

Posted By: Sarah Thorson Little (email)
Date: 2/10/2024 at 13:06:46

Doris Arline Martin
21 April 1922 --- 17 July 1942

Miss Doris Martin, 20, died in a Fort Dodge hospital about 7 o'clock last Thursday morning. She had been ailing for a year or more and was seriously sick about two weeks. Early Thursday morning she became unconscious and was taken to the Lutheran hospital at Fort Dodge, where she passed away. Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at the Kubitschek & Kastler funeral home, with the Rev. J. R. Tumbleson in charge. Interment was in Rose Hill cemetery.

Miss Martin’s brother, James, who is in the U. S. Navy, was unable to get here in time for the funeral. He was located and wired that he was on his home but had not arrived Wednesday afternoon.

Obituary

Doris Arline Martin was born April 21, 1922, in Eagle Grove, and died July 17, 1942 at the Lutheran hospital in Fort Dodge, at the age of 20 years, 2 months, and 26 days. Her entire life was spent in Eagle Grove, where she attended the public schools, graduating from high school with the Class of 1940. While attending high school she was very active in music. Taking part as a member in the high school band was one of her greatest pleasures. After her completion of high school, she attended the American Institute of Business in Des Moines, where she completed her course in business training. Following this she took over the general duties in the Martin Store, where she made many friends. She was very active at this work until her recent illness.

Doris was preceded in death by a brother, Quentin J. Martin in infancy on November 6, 1920, by her mother, Gertrude Martin, on March 12, 1939, and grandmother Young on July 2 of this year.

Doris leaves to mourn their loss, the following: her father and step-mother, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Martin; her brother, James, who is now serving in the U. S. Navy; her fiancé, William Hosselton, Jr.; her grandmother, Mrs. Anna Martin; her grandfather and step-grandmother, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Martin and the following aunts and uncles: Mrs. Flora H. Brown, Ross Putzier and Charlotte Barrett, all of Des Moines; Claude Putzier of Kansas City, MO; William C. Putzier of Waterloo, and their families as well as a host of friends.

Doris was a member of the Methodist Sunday school of Eagle Grove, and very faithful in her attendance.

EAGLE GROVE EAGLE --- Eagle Grove, Iowa
July 23, 1942

source -- Paul Wilde