Air Force Memorials: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Jesse Martin
Jesse Grady Martin was born on July 20, 1939 at the Grady Memorial Hospital in Atlanta, Georgia to Mother Omie Bertha Allison and Father William Robert Martin. He was the youngest of four children, Francis, Ann, Bobby and Jesse. He joined the U.S. Air Force at the age 18, and completed his basic training at Ellington Air Force Base in Houston/Galveston, Texas. Jesse met Kathy Jean Martin at the Lamar Hotel Coffee Shop and both were married on October 17, 1957, she was 15 and he was 18. Born to...