This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Martin, Campbell, Bodily Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Eg.2ADE/407 Message Board Post: Idaho State Journal, 02/03/02 CLIFTON, Idaho — Merwin Adam Martin, age 85, passed away of natural causes at the Franklin County Nursing Home on Friday, Feb. 1, 2002. He was born March 5, 1916, to Waldemar Marion Marcellus and Chleo Louisa Campbell Martin in Clifton, Idaho, where he lived his entire life except for three years during his infancy when the family resided in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho. He served in the Civilian Conservation Corps during the years of the Great Depression. He married Lois Bodily on June 7, 1939, in the Logan, Utah, Temple. They raised a family of eleven children, six boys and five girls. Merwin performed janitorial services at the schoolhouse in Clifton until the Union Pacific Railroad employed him as a section maintenance man. He retired from the railroad and found satisfaction in serving his church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, by doing endowment work at the Logan Temple. He is survived by his children, LaVere (Elaine), Sunset, Utah; Eugene (Cheryl), Pocatello, Idaho; Arlo (Judy), West Valley City, Utah; Ronald, Clinton, Utah; Linda (Ward) Powell, Ogden, Utah; Wayne (Susan), Mountain Home, Idaho; Yetive (Jess) Perry, Kemmerer, Wyoming; Sheila (David) Kafton, Brigham City, Utah; Walter Dennis (Janice), Scott Air Force Base, Illinois; Pamela (Gerald) Jackson, Clifton; 42 grandchildren, 24 great- grandchildren, and by one sister, Marciel McKenzie, Logan, Utah. He was preceded in death by his wife, Lois, by a daughter, Susan, a daughter-in-law, Jana (Mrs. Ronald Martin), two grandchildren, his parents, four sisters, and by one brother. Funeral services will be held at 1 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 6, 2002, in the Clifton First Ward Chapel with Bishop Reed Nelson conducting. Friends may call Tuesday from 6-8 p.m. at Webb Funeral Home, 109 E. Oneida, Preston, and Wednesday from 11:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m. at the church. Interment will be in the Dayton, Idaho, Cemetery.