This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: MARTIN, GEISSEL, JONES, OWSLEY Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/zZB.2ACE/139 Message Board Post: Newspaper; The East Oregonian Pendleton, Umatilla County, Oregon Martin Des. W. The East Oregonian November 17, 1979 Des. W. Martin MEACHAM – Funeral for Des. W. Martin will be 2 p.m. Monday in Milton-Freewater First Christian Church. Interment will be at Milton-Freewater Cemetery. Friends who wish to pay their respects may call Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home, Milton-Freewater, until 1 p.m. Monday. Martin died of a heart attack near his Meacham home Thursday. He was 66. He was born July 4, 1913 in Umapine to Bernard and Marie Martin. He attended schools there. He and Jewell J. Records were married March 29, 1940 in Lewiston, Idaho. Martin was a butter-maker from 1941 at Golden West Creamery in Pendleton. He and his wife then bought the Milton-Freewater Dairy Queen and operated it until retirement in 1975, when they moved to Meacham. Martin was a charter member of BPOE 2146. He is survived by his wife, at home; sons, Pat, of White Salmon, and Gary, of La Grande; his mother, Marie Martin, Milton-Freewater; sisters, Bernadine Geissel, Milton-Freewater, Laverne Jones and Betty Owsley, both of Seattle, Wash.; brothers, L.P. “Pat”, Seattle, and W.B. “Bus” of Walla Walla. There are four grandchildren. Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association through Munselle-Rhodes Funeral Home in Milton-Freewater.