Born March 20, 1907 near Manning, Iowa
Entered Into Rest July 31, 1979 Manning General Hospital Manning, Iowa
Age 72 years, 4 months, 11 days
Services Thursday, August 2, 1979, 10:00 A.M. Zion Lutheran Church Manning, Iowa
Officiating Pastor Edward F. Heinicke
Organist Mrs. Dorothy Kusel
Interment Manning Cemetery
Casketbearers: August Mundt, Linus Heithoff, Fred Nulle, Robert Hinners, Ray Vetter, Amos Lohmeier

Following the committal service, all friends and relatives are invited to return to the Church for luncheon and fellowship.

Funeral services were held at 10 a.m. Thursday, August 2, at Zion Lutheran Church here with the pastor, Pastor Edward F. Heinicke, officiating. Mrs. Dorothy Kusel was organist. Casketbearers were August Mundt, Ray Vetter, Fred Nulle, Robert Hinners, Linus Heithoff, and Amos Lohmeier. Burial, under direction of the Ohde Funeral Home of Manning, was in the Manning Cemetery.

Surviving are his wife, two daughters: Mrs. Larry (Lorraine) Slechta, Denison, and Sherrill Heller, Kimballton; a son, Dean Martens and his wife, Betty, Des Moines; six grandsons, a sister Mrs. Lydia Weideman, Sac City, and a brother Willis Hyattsville, Maryland. He was preceded by his parents and a brother Ray.

Mr. Martens was born March 20, 1907, hear Manning, a son of John and Adelia (Schumann) Martens. He attended rural and Manning schools. He farmed with his father until his marriage to Amanda Grau April 20, 1934, at Denison, when they moved to town. He worked for M.J.M. and the Stahl Construction Company. For the past several years he had been semi-retired, but worked in the summers for the Garst Company of Coon Rapids.