Emma Lee Wheeler Martin, age 69, of Reeds Spring, Missouri, formerly of Russellville, died Tuesday, June 10, 2008 at the Skaggs Community Health Center in Branson, Missouri. A daughter of the late Otis Lee and Emma Clayborn Wheeler, she was born January 4, 1939 in Grants Pass, Oregon. She was a United States Marine Corps veteran, a former employee of the United States Postal Service in Indianapolis, Indiana, as well as a civilian employee of the Postal Service in Germany during Desert Storm, and had been a deconner in the nuclear industry and an employee of Baxter Laboratory in Mountain Home. She had attended cosmetology school and culinary school in Sikeston, Missouri, and had trained to be a lab technician at the College of the Ozarks in Clarksville. She was a Christian, and attended the churches of her children as she traveled and visited with them and their families.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two grandchildren: Samuel Jason Martin Jr. and Jordan Elizabeth Sanders; and two brothers: Jimmy Gadis and Larry Joe Gadis. Survivors include two sons: Charles Stephen Martin of Atkins; and Samuel Jason Martin of Lead Hill; four daughters: Karen Janine Kibler of Homosassa, Florida; Rebecca Elizabeth Sanders of Reeds Spring; and Shana Michelle Martin-Force and Shara Rachelle Martin, both of St. Joseph, Missouri; two brothers: Dwain Reynolds of Lamar; and Johnny Dale Gadis of Missouri; sixteen grandchildren: Chrissy Brock, Andrea and Jamie Kibler, Katelyn and Lydia Alabach, Rikki and Lindsey Martin, Misty Dawn Mooney, Hannah Sanders, Sydnee, Daisy and Phoebe Force, Jillyan Martin and Bryce, Love and Ayden Boydston; and a great-grandson, Noah Mathew Gargano.
The funeral service will be at 10 A.M. on Friday, June 13, 2008 at the Shinn Chapel, officiated by the Rev. David Zeiler. Burial with military honors will be in the Lamar Cemetery at Lamar, by Shinn Funeral Service.
Active pallbearers will be Anthony Boydston, Robin Kibler, Darren Sanders and Darin Reynolds.
The family will receive friends on Thursday evening, from 5 to 7 P.M., at the funeral home.
Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association, Post Office Box 1653, Topeka, Kansas 66601-1653.
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