MRD. 27 Mar 1946 NAVY WW2
Jack was born Oct. 4, 1924 in Gary, Indiana. The son of parents Jack Lawerence Martin and Marguerite Eileen Bretsch.
Little information is available regarding Jack's biological father. It is clear however that Marguerite and he were not married very long. Their marriage certificate shows the date of the wedding to be April 10, 1924. Other facts show that Marguerite (about 16 or 17) at the time moved to Theresa, NY when Jack was about 2 years of age. Jack Lawerence Martin remained in Gary.
Marguerite moved to Theresa to be near her father Floyd Bretsch, who was a businessman in the area. It was after moving that Marguerite met Ernest and Beulah Aiken and the Aikens helped take care of the baby. As time went on Marguerite realized she could not take care of an infant and she had begun spending more time in Syracuse working while Jack stayed with Ernest and Beulah. When Jack was three years old adoption papers were filed and Floyd Jack Martin became Floyd Jack Aiken. It should be noted that the "Floyd" in Jack's name came from Marguerite's father.
Jack's youth was interrupted at age 17 when he joined the Navy to participate in the war effort. After basic training Jack was assigned to the battleship U.S.S. South Dakota. Four years and a purple heart later Jack was discharged from the Navy and returned to Theresa and his family. Shortly after his return from the war he met and fell in love with a young woman who would be his mate for the next fifty-six years. On March 27, 1946 he married Verna Eileen Kingston.
Always the busy entrepeneur Jack's efforts to support his family included a newspaper printing business and an excavation company. The birth of son Tom, Nov. 14, 1950 and construction involving the deepening of the St. Lawrence River in the 1000 Islands Region prompted him to obtain a Captain's License and operate a tugboat for a few years. The money was good and the work suited him very well. Another son Timothy(creator of these pages), born June 11, 1954 came along during this time. At some point Jack had also found cause to obtain an aviator's license and owned a plane for a time.
About 1968 he went to work for the Hall Ski Lift Company in Watertown, NY. He travelled around NY and PA installing and repairing ski lift equipment for 10 years. In 1978 the position of Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds was offered to him in the Watertown School District and it was there he stayed until his retirement in 1986.
With retirement came opportunity and Jack began another business he called The Gas Engine Company. He sold lawnmowers, parts and all sorts of lawn care accessories. During this time he developed a keen interest in antique engines and began collecting them. The business thrived to the point it outgrew him and he sold it in 1995, it was sort of a second retirement.
In the fall of 2001 Jack was in failing health and becoming more frail. After an operation in December for a blocked gaul bladder, he seemed on the road to recovery, but a relapse around Christmas kept him in the hospital for the holiday. He came home the 29th of the month and had a belated Christmas but that evening it was back to the hospital and on Jan. 3, 2002 he passed away.
Jack's ashes are now interred at the Oakwood Cemetary, Theresa, NY.
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Jack was born Oct. 4, 1924 in Gary, Indiana. The son of parents Jack Lawerence Martin and Marguerite Eileen Bretsch.
Little information is available regarding Jack's biological father. It is clear however that Marguerite and he were not married very long. Their marriage certificate shows the date of the wedding to be April 10, 1924. Other facts show that Marguerite (about 16 or 17) at the time moved to Theresa, NY when Jack was about 2 years of age. Jack Lawerence Martin remained in Gary.
Marguerite moved to Theresa to be near her father Floyd Bretsch, who was a businessman in the area. It was after moving that Marguerite met Ernest and Beulah Aiken and the Aikens helped take care of the baby. As time went on Marguerite realized she could not take care of an infant and she had begun spending more time in Syracuse working while Jack stayed with Ernest and Beulah. When Jack was three years old adoption papers were filed and Floyd Jack Martin became Floyd Jack Aiken. It should be noted that the "Floyd" in Jack's name came from Marguerite's father.
Jack's youth was interrupted at age 17 when he joined the Navy to participate in the war effort. After basic training Jack was assigned to the battleship U.S.S. South Dakota. Four years and a purple heart later Jack was discharged from the Navy and returned to Theresa and his family. Shortly after his return from the war he met and fell in love with a young woman who would be his mate for the next fifty-six years. On March 27, 1946 he married Verna Eileen Kingston.
Always the busy entrepeneur Jack's efforts to support his family included a newspaper printing business and an excavation company. The birth of son Tom, Nov. 14, 1950 and construction involving the deepening of the St. Lawrence River in the 1000 Islands Region prompted him to obtain a Captain's License and operate a tugboat for a few years. The money was good and the work suited him very well. Another son Timothy(creator of these pages), born June 11, 1954 came along during this time. At some point Jack had also found cause to obtain an aviator's license and owned a plane for a time.
About 1968 he went to work for the Hall Ski Lift Company in Watertown, NY. He travelled around NY and PA installing and repairing ski lift equipment for 10 years. In 1978 the position of Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds was offered to him in the Watertown School District and it was there he stayed until his retirement in 1986.
With retirement came opportunity and Jack began another business he called The Gas Engine Company. He sold lawnmowers, parts and all sorts of lawn care accessories. During this time he developed a keen interest in antique engines and began collecting them. The business thrived to the point it outgrew him and he sold it in 1995, it was sort of a second retirement.
In the fall of 2001 Jack was in failing health and becoming more frail. After an operation in December for a blocked gaul bladder, he seemed on the road to recovery, but a relapse around Christmas kept him in the hospital for the holiday. He came home the 29th of the month and had a belated Christmas but that evening it was back to the hospital and on Jan. 3, 2002 he passed away.
Jack's ashes are now interred at the Oakwood Cemetary, Theresa, NY.
Contributor: (50707201)
MRD. 27 Mar 1946 NAVY WW2
Jack was born Oct. 4, 1924 in Gary, Indiana. The son of parents Jack Lawerence Martin and Marguerite Eileen Bretsch.
Little information is available regarding Jack's biological father. It is clear however that Marguerite and he were not married very long. Their marriage certificate shows the date of the wedding to be April 10, 1924. Other facts show that Marguerite (about 16 or 17) at the time moved to Theresa, NY when Jack was about 2 years of age. Jack Lawerence Martin remained in Gary.
Marguerite moved to Theresa to be near her father Floyd Bretsch, who was a businessman in the area. It was after moving that Marguerite met Ernest and Beulah Aiken and the Aikens helped take care of the baby. As time went on Marguerite realized she could not take care of an infant and she had begun spending more time in Syracuse working while Jack stayed with Ernest and Beulah. When Jack was three years old adoption papers were filed and Floyd Jack Martin became Floyd Jack Aiken. It should be noted that the "Floyd" in Jack's name came from Marguerite's father.
Jack's youth was interrupted at age 17 when he joined the Navy to participate in the war effort. After basic training Jack was assigned to the battleship U.S.S. South Dakota. Four years and a purple heart later Jack was discharged from the Navy and returned to Theresa and his family. Shortly after his return from the war he met and fell in love with a young woman who would be his mate for the next fifty-six years. On March 27, 1946 he married Verna Eileen Kingston.
Always the busy entrepeneur Jack's efforts to support his family included a newspaper printing business and an excavation company. The birth of son Tom, Nov. 14, 1950 and construction involving the deepening of the St. Lawrence River in the 1000 Islands Region prompted him to obtain a Captain's License and operate a tugboat for a few years. The money was good and the work suited him very well. Another son Timothy(creator of these pages), born June 11, 1954 came along during this time. At some point Jack had also found cause to obtain an aviator's license and owned a plane for a time.
About 1968 he went to work for the Hall Ski Lift Company in Watertown, NY. He travelled around NY and PA installing and repairing ski lift equipment for 10 years. In 1978 the position of Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds was offered to him in the Watertown School District and it was there he stayed until his retirement in 1986.
With retirement came opportunity and Jack began another business he called The Gas Engine Company. He sold lawnmowers, parts and all sorts of lawn care accessories. During this time he developed a keen interest in antique engines and began collecting them. The business thrived to the point it outgrew him and he sold it in 1995, it was sort of a second retirement.
In the fall of 2001 Jack was in failing health and becoming more frail. After an operation in December for a blocked gaul bladder, he seemed on the road to recovery, but a relapse around Christmas kept him in the hospital for the holiday. He came home the 29th of the month and had a belated Christmas but that evening it was back to the hospital and on Jan. 3, 2002 he passed away.
Jack's ashes are now interred at the Oakwood Cemetary, Theresa, NY.
Contributor: (50707201)
Jack was born Oct. 4, 1924 in Gary, Indiana. The son of parents Jack Lawerence Martin and Marguerite Eileen Bretsch.
Little information is available regarding Jack's biological father. It is clear however that Marguerite and he were not married very long. Their marriage certificate shows the date of the wedding to be April 10, 1924. Other facts show that Marguerite (about 16 or 17) at the time moved to Theresa, NY when Jack was about 2 years of age. Jack Lawerence Martin remained in Gary.
Marguerite moved to Theresa to be near her father Floyd Bretsch, who was a businessman in the area. It was after moving that Marguerite met Ernest and Beulah Aiken and the Aikens helped take care of the baby. As time went on Marguerite realized she could not take care of an infant and she had begun spending more time in Syracuse working while Jack stayed with Ernest and Beulah. When Jack was three years old adoption papers were filed and Floyd Jack Martin became Floyd Jack Aiken. It should be noted that the "Floyd" in Jack's name came from Marguerite's father.
Jack's youth was interrupted at age 17 when he joined the Navy to participate in the war effort. After basic training Jack was assigned to the battleship U.S.S. South Dakota. Four years and a purple heart later Jack was discharged from the Navy and returned to Theresa and his family. Shortly after his return from the war he met and fell in love with a young woman who would be his mate for the next fifty-six years. On March 27, 1946 he married Verna Eileen Kingston.
Always the busy entrepeneur Jack's efforts to support his family included a newspaper printing business and an excavation company. The birth of son Tom, Nov. 14, 1950 and construction involving the deepening of the St. Lawrence River in the 1000 Islands Region prompted him to obtain a Captain's License and operate a tugboat for a few years. The money was good and the work suited him very well. Another son Timothy(creator of these pages), born June 11, 1954 came along during this time. At some point Jack had also found cause to obtain an aviator's license and owned a plane for a time.
About 1968 he went to work for the Hall Ski Lift Company in Watertown, NY. He travelled around NY and PA installing and repairing ski lift equipment for 10 years. In 1978 the position of Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds was offered to him in the Watertown School District and it was there he stayed until his retirement in 1986.
With retirement came opportunity and Jack began another business he called The Gas Engine Company. He sold lawnmowers, parts and all sorts of lawn care accessories. During this time he developed a keen interest in antique engines and began collecting them. The business thrived to the point it outgrew him and he sold it in 1995, it was sort of a second retirement.
In the fall of 2001 Jack was in failing health and becoming more frail. After an operation in December for a blocked gaul bladder, he seemed on the road to recovery, but a relapse around Christmas kept him in the hospital for the holiday. He came home the 29th of the month and had a belated Christmas but that evening it was back to the hospital and on Jan. 3, 2002 he passed away.
Jack's ashes are now interred at the Oakwood Cemetary, Theresa, NY.
Contributor: (50707201)
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