Martha Appling Cameron

REFORM - Martha Appling Cameron, age 88, of Reform, died November 29, 2016, at Heritage Health Care & Rehab. Services will be 2 p.m. Saturday, December 3, 2016, at Skelton Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Jerry Douglas and Rev. George McLaurine officiating. Burial will follow in Greenhill Memorial Gardens with Skelton Funeral Home of Reform directing. Visitation will be one hour prior and immediately following the service at the funeral home.
She was preceded in death by her husband of 54 years, Raymond C. Cameron; her parents and sister, Elizabeth "Anne" Appling Smith.
Survivors include her sons, David Raymond Cameron and wife Lucy A. Lawrence and Ronald Keith Cameron and wife Deborah McMilian Cameron; five grandchildren, Justen, Leyna, Shawn, Jacob and Luke; and three (soon to be four) great-grandchildren.
Martha Appling Cameron was born February 3, 1928 in Pickens County, Alabama to Henry Chandler Appling and Trannie Montgomery Appling. She grew up in the Palmetto Community and graduated from Palmetto High School, and afterward attended The University of Alabama, graduating with a degree in education. Soon after graduating college, she married Raymond C. Cameron, and made a home for him and their two sons on four continents, as he pursued his career in the U. S. Air Force, stationed at bases as far flung as Mountain Home, Idaho to foreign postings in Tripoli, Libya, Wiesbaden, Germany, and the Panama Canal Zone.
After her husband retired from the Air Force in 1970, Martha returned to her dream of teaching school. She began teaching at Pickens County High School, where she taught until she retired in 1993. She was inducted into Alpha Delta Kappa, the National Teachers' Sorority on April 14, 1975, and was active in this organization until several years after her retirement. She served, for a time, as President of the Pickens County Education Association. After retirement, she remained active and was instrumental in spearheading a campaign to move the Reform Public Library to a newer, larger location.
She will be remembered by numerous former students who were inspired by her to push themselves toward higher goals in life.
Honorary pallbearers are members of Reform First Presbyterian Church, staff of Heritage Health Care, staff of Morning Point Assisted Living, William Ashmore and Ronnie Birmingham.
In lieu of flowers, the family asks that memorials be made to Reform Public Library, 302 1st Street S. Reform, AL 35481