University of Georgia Memorial: Remembering the life, death and legacy of Dr. Edmund Clyde Martin Sr.
Dr. Edmund Clyde Martin Sr., 89, died on Tuesday, May 22, 2012. He was born March 8, 1923, to Webb and Winnie Wood Martin at his home on Tanner's Mill Road in Chestnut Mountain, Ga. He attended Chestnut Elementary, then Oakwood High School. Although many students at that time dropped out of school after 9th grade, his father valued education, so he rode a bus to Chestnut Mountain Elementary then boarded another bus to go to Oakwood High. He continued his education at the University of Georgia,...