Rosetta Martin

Graveside services will be at 2:00 PM Saturday, December 8, 2012, at the Stinnett Cemetery in Stinnett, with Denny Sneed, minister of Church of Christ at Borger, officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors. Mrs. Martin was born March 17, 1924 in Powell. At the age of 10 in early 1935, she came to the Texas Panhandle from East Texas with her parents and three sisters. They first settled in White Deer, then Skellytown and then Spring Creek. She graduated from Borger High School in 1942. During World War II, she worked as a secretary for Henry J. Kaiser Shipping Company in Oakland, California. She met her husband, James Martin, through his sister, who was a friend of Rosetta?s mother. They were married in 1943 while James was stationed briefly in San Francisco before starting his military duty in the Pacific. After the war, they settled in Pampa where James worked for Cabot Corporation. She was a member of First Christian Church where she taught Sunday school. Rosetta was preceded in death by her parents: Birdie and Felix Marshall of Stinnett; and her husband James on July 29, 2009. Rosetta was a devoted mother, a woman of deep faith, a good friend, a generous person, and she had a wonderful sense of humor that she inherited from both her mother and her father. She lived most of her life in Pampa, a town she said she loved every inch of. Her love was a blessing and she will be so very much missed. Survivors include two daughters: Pamela and Karla Jean; son-in-law: Nabeel; two grandchildren: Ali and Sarah; two sisters: Birnell Sipple of Electra and Eileen Wilborn of Austin; two nieces and three nephews.Memorials may be made to the Pampa Sheltered Workshop, P.O. Box 2808, Pampa, Texas 79066-2808, or the Gray County Retarded Citizens Association, P.O. Box 880, Pampa, Texas 79066-0880.