"Glenn D. Martin Dies at Age 74
Glenn D. Martin, 74, 1923 Abbott Street, a veteran Falls City gas and oil distributor, the oldest agent in number of years' service, for the Sinclair Oil company, west of the Mississippi river, died at 10:05 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, 1969, at Community hospital here. He entered the hospital Friday.
Mr. Martin started as a commission agent for Sinclair in 1919 and worked under that system until 1941 when he went in as a jobber after buying the station pumps and tanks. He had been a jobber for 45 years.
Besides the station business at 1302 Stone, his firm has a tank wagon delivery service which covers the entire county and also distributes butane and propane gas in bottles and tanks in Richardson and Pawnee counties and northeast Kansas. The propane business was added in 1952.
Mr. Martin was born at Rulo Oct 18, 1895, a son of the late Elias O. Martin and Iola F. Duncan Martin. He attended the Rulo schools. He farmed in his early life and owned the farm on which he grew up two miles north of Rulo.
In 1913 Mr. Martin went to work for the Central Grain Co. at Rulo and was transferred to Table Rock by that company two years later. He bought grain for the government during World War I.
Apr. 25, 1917, he was married to Miss Virge Marie Close at Falls City. The couple established their home at Table Rock and moved to Falls City in 1919.
Mr. Martin was a past state president of the Nebraska Petroleum Marketers association and was active in the Falls City Saddle club and was a past president of that organization. He was active in the first years of the Horseplay Days activities and helped to organize the function. He was a member of the B.P.O.E. No. 963, Nemaha Valley lodge No. 36 of the I.O.O.F. and a member of the First Christian Church.
Survivors are a son, Virgil D. Martin; a daughter, Mrs. Tom (Lucy V.) Gist, Falls City; two sisters, Mrs. Gerald (Zelma) Service, Great Bend, Kas; Mrs. J. A. (Marie) Martin, Anacortes, Wash., and six grandsons. Mrs. Martin died May 4, 1959.
The body of Mr. Martin is here at the Dorr-Philpot and Reavis-Macomber funeral home. Funeral services will be held in their chapel at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning conducted by the Rev. Richard DeVilliers. Interment will be in Steele Cemetery. "
Glenn D. Martin, 74, 1923 Abbott Street, a veteran Falls City gas and oil distributor, the oldest agent in number of years' service, for the Sinclair Oil company, west of the Mississippi river, died at 10:05 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, 1969, at Community hospital here. He entered the hospital Friday.
Mr. Martin started as a commission agent for Sinclair in 1919 and worked under that system until 1941 when he went in as a jobber after buying the station pumps and tanks. He had been a jobber for 45 years.
Besides the station business at 1302 Stone, his firm has a tank wagon delivery service which covers the entire county and also distributes butane and propane gas in bottles and tanks in Richardson and Pawnee counties and northeast Kansas. The propane business was added in 1952.
Mr. Martin was born at Rulo Oct 18, 1895, a son of the late Elias O. Martin and Iola F. Duncan Martin. He attended the Rulo schools. He farmed in his early life and owned the farm on which he grew up two miles north of Rulo.
In 1913 Mr. Martin went to work for the Central Grain Co. at Rulo and was transferred to Table Rock by that company two years later. He bought grain for the government during World War I.
Apr. 25, 1917, he was married to Miss Virge Marie Close at Falls City. The couple established their home at Table Rock and moved to Falls City in 1919.
Mr. Martin was a past state president of the Nebraska Petroleum Marketers association and was active in the Falls City Saddle club and was a past president of that organization. He was active in the first years of the Horseplay Days activities and helped to organize the function. He was a member of the B.P.O.E. No. 963, Nemaha Valley lodge No. 36 of the I.O.O.F. and a member of the First Christian Church.
Survivors are a son, Virgil D. Martin; a daughter, Mrs. Tom (Lucy V.) Gist, Falls City; two sisters, Mrs. Gerald (Zelma) Service, Great Bend, Kas; Mrs. J. A. (Marie) Martin, Anacortes, Wash., and six grandsons. Mrs. Martin died May 4, 1959.
The body of Mr. Martin is here at the Dorr-Philpot and Reavis-Macomber funeral home. Funeral services will be held in their chapel at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning conducted by the Rev. Richard DeVilliers. Interment will be in Steele Cemetery. "
"Glenn D. Martin Dies at Age 74
Glenn D. Martin, 74, 1923 Abbott Street, a veteran Falls City gas and oil distributor, the oldest agent in number of years' service, for the Sinclair Oil company, west of the Mississippi river, died at 10:05 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, 1969, at Community hospital here. He entered the hospital Friday.
Mr. Martin started as a commission agent for Sinclair in 1919 and worked under that system until 1941 when he went in as a jobber after buying the station pumps and tanks. He had been a jobber for 45 years.
Besides the station business at 1302 Stone, his firm has a tank wagon delivery service which covers the entire county and also distributes butane and propane gas in bottles and tanks in Richardson and Pawnee counties and northeast Kansas. The propane business was added in 1952.
Mr. Martin was born at Rulo Oct 18, 1895, a son of the late Elias O. Martin and Iola F. Duncan Martin. He attended the Rulo schools. He farmed in his early life and owned the farm on which he grew up two miles north of Rulo.
In 1913 Mr. Martin went to work for the Central Grain Co. at Rulo and was transferred to Table Rock by that company two years later. He bought grain for the government during World War I.
Apr. 25, 1917, he was married to Miss Virge Marie Close at Falls City. The couple established their home at Table Rock and moved to Falls City in 1919.
Mr. Martin was a past state president of the Nebraska Petroleum Marketers association and was active in the Falls City Saddle club and was a past president of that organization. He was active in the first years of the Horseplay Days activities and helped to organize the function. He was a member of the B.P.O.E. No. 963, Nemaha Valley lodge No. 36 of the I.O.O.F. and a member of the First Christian Church.
Survivors are a son, Virgil D. Martin; a daughter, Mrs. Tom (Lucy V.) Gist, Falls City; two sisters, Mrs. Gerald (Zelma) Service, Great Bend, Kas; Mrs. J. A. (Marie) Martin, Anacortes, Wash., and six grandsons. Mrs. Martin died May 4, 1959.
The body of Mr. Martin is here at the Dorr-Philpot and Reavis-Macomber funeral home. Funeral services will be held in their chapel at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning conducted by the Rev. Richard DeVilliers. Interment will be in Steele Cemetery. "
Glenn D. Martin, 74, 1923 Abbott Street, a veteran Falls City gas and oil distributor, the oldest agent in number of years' service, for the Sinclair Oil company, west of the Mississippi river, died at 10:05 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22, 1969, at Community hospital here. He entered the hospital Friday.
Mr. Martin started as a commission agent for Sinclair in 1919 and worked under that system until 1941 when he went in as a jobber after buying the station pumps and tanks. He had been a jobber for 45 years.
Besides the station business at 1302 Stone, his firm has a tank wagon delivery service which covers the entire county and also distributes butane and propane gas in bottles and tanks in Richardson and Pawnee counties and northeast Kansas. The propane business was added in 1952.
Mr. Martin was born at Rulo Oct 18, 1895, a son of the late Elias O. Martin and Iola F. Duncan Martin. He attended the Rulo schools. He farmed in his early life and owned the farm on which he grew up two miles north of Rulo.
In 1913 Mr. Martin went to work for the Central Grain Co. at Rulo and was transferred to Table Rock by that company two years later. He bought grain for the government during World War I.
Apr. 25, 1917, he was married to Miss Virge Marie Close at Falls City. The couple established their home at Table Rock and moved to Falls City in 1919.
Mr. Martin was a past state president of the Nebraska Petroleum Marketers association and was active in the Falls City Saddle club and was a past president of that organization. He was active in the first years of the Horseplay Days activities and helped to organize the function. He was a member of the B.P.O.E. No. 963, Nemaha Valley lodge No. 36 of the I.O.O.F. and a member of the First Christian Church.
Survivors are a son, Virgil D. Martin; a daughter, Mrs. Tom (Lucy V.) Gist, Falls City; two sisters, Mrs. Gerald (Zelma) Service, Great Bend, Kas; Mrs. J. A. (Marie) Martin, Anacortes, Wash., and six grandsons. Mrs. Martin died May 4, 1959.
The body of Mr. Martin is here at the Dorr-Philpot and Reavis-Macomber funeral home. Funeral services will be held in their chapel at 10:30 o'clock Wednesday morning conducted by the Rev. Richard DeVilliers. Interment will be in Steele Cemetery. "
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