Graveside services and burial for Clarence Ellis Martin, age 88, of Wayne County Nursing Home, Waynesboro, formerly of Collinwood, TN will be Saturday, October 20, 2007 at 2 pm at Mt. Zion Cemetery in Steele, MO with Glen Davis officiating and Shackelford Funeral Directors of Wayne County directing. He died at Wayne Medical Center, Waynesboro, on Thursday, October 18, 2007.
Mr. Martin, a native of Wayne County, TN was a retired welder and a United States Army veteran of WWII. He lived in Steele, MO sixty years before returning to Collinwood, TN. Mr. Martin was preceded in death by his parents, Thomas and Mattie Keeton Martin and his wife, Lucille Hurley Martin.
Survivors, son, James Ellis Martin and wife, Barbara, granddaughter, Teresa Wright all of Collinwood, TN, and nieces and nephews.