Gladys Nelms Martin

© Marietta Monitor

June 28, 2002, pg 4

Submitted by: Martha N. Reddout

Services for Gladys Nelms Martin, 90, of Wynnewood, were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday, June 26, at the First United Methodist Church in Wynnewood with Bro. Jerry Wells officiating.

Mrs. Martin was born October 30, 1911, in Wynnewood, the daughter of Otto and Lelia Brim Carter. She died Sunday, June 23, 2002, in Oklahoma City.

She attended school in Joy and Wynnewood. She and John Dee Nelms were married in March of 1929. They made their home in Wynnewood until his death in 1941. She and J. J. Martin were married in 1947 and later moved to Woodward. They then moved to Marietta where she continued her nursing career until her retirement in 1984 at the age of 82. She moved to the Westminster Assisted Care Center in December of 2000 and made her home there until her death.

Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Edward and Bonnie Nelms of Wynnewood; three daughters and son-in-law, Mary Dee Cowin of Oklahoma City, Gladys and Hugh Jones of South Carolina, and Nina Blackstone of Lake Dallas, Texas; a brother, Brim Carter of California; two sisters, Ruth Larsen of Oklahoma City and Elizabeth Yarbrough of Grapevine, Texas; nine grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; three great-great-grandchildren; and a host of other relatives and friends.

Mrs. Martin was also preceded in death by her parents; a brother, Floyd Carter; and a sister, Berniece Losson.

Serving as pallbearers were her grandsons and great-grandsons.

Interment was in the Oaklawn Cemetery, Wynnewood, under the direction of DeArman Funeral Home, Wynnewood.