These are my grandparents.  They lived in Ropes all their married life.  My grandmother eventually sold her home and moved to Abilene to be near her son and sisters.  We later moved to Abilene to be near her. Carolyn Sosebee

 Jim G. Martin's Rites Planned

ROPESVILLE (Special) -- Services for Jim G. Martin (Jimmy Gladys Martin), 66, will be at 2:00 p.m. Monday in the United Methodist Church here.
    Officiating will be Rev. C. Jones, pastor, Garnie Atkinson, Church of Christ minister of Lubbock, and Rev. Sam Elrod, minister of the Nazarene Church here.
    Burial will be in Ropesville Cemetery conducted by Rix Funeral Directors of Lubbock.
    Martin was dead on arrival at 9:00 p.m. Friday in Lubbock's Methodist Hospital following an apparent heart attack at his Ropesville home.
    He lived here since 1923 and was a farmer and a businessman.
    Survivors include his wife,  Irene (Sallie Irene McCormick Martin); two sons, J. L. of Denver, Colorado, and James E. (James Edward Martin)
of 502 54th Street, Lubbock; a sister, Mrs. Lucy (Lucy Ethel Martin) Littlefield of Ropesville; four brothers, Arzie (Arzie Raymond Martin)of Ropesville, Tyree (Tyree Nathan Martin) of Brownfield, Andrew (Andrew
Bert Martin) of Seagraves, and Butler (Butler Smith Martin) of Whittier, California; eight grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
    Pallbearers will be George Carter, Ewell Exum, Lloyd Wall, Robert Hall, Joe Harris, and Edsel Huie.

(Taken from the Lubbock Avalanche Journal in November, 1970.)

Taken from the Abilene Reporter News/July 4, 1997

Irene Martin/July 4, 2000

ROPESVILLE - Irene Martin, 87, of Abilene and formerly of Ropesville, died Tuesday in an Abilene hospital.

Graveside services were held Wednesday in Ropesville Cemetery with the Rev. Bill Titus and Oscar Batten officiating, directed by Rix Funeral Directors of Lubbock.

Mrs. Martin was born in Gustine and she, with her husband, owned and operated Martin Egg Farm in Ropesville for many years. She moved to Anson in 1984 and Abilene in 1995. She was a member of the  Nazarene Church in Ropesville and was the widow of Jim Martin, whom she married in 1927 in Lubbock.

Survivors include one son, James Edward Martin of Anson; one brother, Luther E. McCormick Jr. of De Leon; three sisters, LaRue Reeves and Alene Reeves, both of Abilene, and Ada Mae Dunn of Clyde; seven grandchildren; 12 great-grandchildren; and five great-great-grandchildren.

 

  

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