By Staff
June 4, 2009
Funeral for Ruth Seymour Martin, 90, of Priceville was Monday, June 8, at 10:00 a.m. at First United Methodist Church of Hartselle with the Rev. Harold Thompson officiating and Peck Funeral Home directing.
Burial was in Somerville City Cemetery in Somerville, Tenn.
Mrs. Martin died Thursday, June 4, 2009, at Decatur General Hospital. She was born December 24, 1918, in Lovelady, Tex. She was one of seven children born to Walter Henderson Poe and Janie Nora Dixson Poe. She lived most of her life in Memphis, Tenn. with her first husband, T.L. Seymour and their two sons. After the death of her second husband, Elmer Martin, she moved to Hartselle. She was always active in the Methodist church.
She is survived by two sons, Eugene T. Seymour of Bristol, Va. and Randall P. Seymour of DeFuniak Springs, Fla.; two brothers, Paul Poe of Livingston, Tex. and W.H. Poe, Jr. of Pennington, Tex.; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.