Martens, Linda Adina Peters (1914-2005)

Mennonite Weekly Review obituary: 2005 Sep 12 p. 12

Birth date: 1914 Sep 29

text of obituary:

LINDA ADINA MARTENS

Linda Adina Martens, 90, of Fairview, Okla., died July 15, 2005. She was born Sept. 29, 1914, to David C. and Lena (Bartel) Peters near the Indiahoma Mission.

When she was 14 she accepted Christ as her personal Savior. She strived to model her life after Christ.

She attended Corn Bible Academy and graduated from Weatherford High School. She graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University with an education degree in 1935. Her first job was teaching at Pleasant View School, where she also coached the boy's basketball team. The next two years she taught at Hobart.

On Sept. 24, 1939, she married Walter Martens in a double ceremony with her sister Katie and Jake Neufeld at Corn Mennonite Brethren Church.

They established their home on a farm northwest of Fairview, where they lived for 53 years. After his death, she stayed on the farm 11 more years before moving into Fairview Fellowship Home in 2004.

She served the Lord at Fairview Mennonite Brethren Church, which included serving on the deacon board with Walter, teaching Sunday school, working in the church library and being an active participant in WMS. She spent many years helping care for residents at Fairview Fellowship Home. She enjoyed gardening and quilting.

Survivors include three sons, Dave Martens and his wife, Pam, Trent Martens and his wife, Sheri, and Erland Martens and his wife, Susie, all of Fairview; two daughters, Anna Regier and her husband, Leo, of Hutchinson, Kan., and Lois Mauro and her husband, Francesco, of Rome, Italy; two brothers, Henry Peters of Corn and Don C. Peters of Stillwater; two sisters, Kathryn Neufeld of Corn and Mayra Harms of Stillwater; nine grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Walter P. Martens; a grandson, Bryce Martens; and a brother, Abe Peters.

Funeral services were held at Fairview Mennonite Brethren Church. Burial was in North Mennonite Brethren Cemetery.