Tom had a number of speakers at his memorial in Wisconsin in June. All of the people shown here also spoke at his memorial in Florida in April.
Reverend Dr. Michael F. Evans delivered a wonderful, heart-warming and personal service.
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Tom’s final resting place is the Wisconsin Memorial Park in Brookfield, Wisconsin. Here are some photos of the beautiful building and grounds:
Tom final resting place is an indoor crypt at Wisconsin Memorial Park.
Tom and Hazel will be together again someday, but hopefully not soon!
Following are mementos from Tom’s life that were displayed at his memorial service in Milwaukee in June 2009.
Tom’s Marine Corps hats, and the urn with his ashes.
We held a memorial for Tom Martin on Saturday, June 20, 2009 at Wisconsin Memorial Park in Brookfield.
The United States Marine Fox Company – Milwaukee I & I performed military honors for Tom by folding the U.S. Flag and playing Taps.
Thomas R. Martin, 76, of Sun City Center, Florida, passed away on April 13, 2009. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps during the Korean War and was a member of the United Community Church. He was member of the American Legion Alonzo Cudworth Post #23 and the Korean Knights in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He graduated From Whitefish Bay High School in 1951 and attended the Milwaukee School of Engineering.
Tom was preceded in death by his parents, R.O. and Beatrice (nee Holstein) Martin, a brother, Ralph Martin, a sister, Diane Plettner and his baby grandson, Kyle Owen Martin. Survivors include his wife, Hazel (nee Semke), four children, Laura Martin, Lisa (Steve) Balistreri, William (Sue) Martin, and Timm (Theresa) Martin, a brother, Michael (Jeanne) Martin, a sister-in-law, Sylvia (Arthur) Menz, eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 2 pm Saturday, April 25, 2009 at the United Community Church, 1501 La Jolla Avenue, Sun City Center, Florida. A memorial service will be held in Milwaukee, WI at a later date. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to the Sun City Center LifePath Hospice Resource Center, 3725 Upper Creek Drive, Ruskin, FL 33573, or the United Community Church Scholarship Fund, 1501 La Jolla Avenue, Sun City Center, FL 33573.
Or you can send cash to Hazel Martin. Though she is too proud to ask for money, she is facing enormous hospital and medical bills. Please help her out if possible.
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This is one tough marine! Tom fell and broke his hip and had to undergo surgery. Like many challenges before, this surgery was expected to kill him. But Tom continued to defy death, and like the Energizer bunny that keeps on going, Tom survived once again. He asked his granddaughter Heather to snap his photo to show the world that “I’m alive!”
We are happy to report that Tom has returned home from the hospital and nursing home, where he was rehabilitating after his bout with pneumonia. Hopefully Tom will be writing here again soon.
From Tom’s son, Timm:
Tom is in the hospital with pneumonia in both lungs. We are praying for his recovery.
Today is his birthday. We wish he was enjoying his 76th birthday at home, or better yet, sailing the open blue waters of the Gulf of Mexico, as he loved to do in days gone by.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DAD! WE LOVE YOU!!
Congress that is! They lie to us, the world and the Congressional Record. And they passed a rule to make it legal. For example:
Someone introduces a bill to raise the tax on Tommies ice cream bar by 5 cents. A Representative stands on the Podium and expounds on how unfair this would be to add a burden on little Tommy. Then the Representative turns right around and rewrites this little speech to "give it to the little bastard, raise the tax to 15 cents to teach Tommy some responsibility," and this is what is written into the Congressional Record.
Don’t you think that what the Representative says on the podium is what should go into the Congressional Record? I do.
Read this ruling in the paper quite a long time ago.
