Margaret Anne McMullen Martin

While having met briefly nearly six years ago, we continued to learn much about Margaret Ellen McMullen from her daughter, Margaret Ellen Martin, and came to know the kind and loving ways of this dedicated woman with a strong and persevering nature. Our loving heartfelt thoughts are with the Martin family in this time of loss. May love and peace bring comfort to all.
Lovingly,
Roger and Linda Frock

Dear Martin family,
Both Uncle Henry and Aunt Margaret are very special people to me. And they have been very special christian friends of my Dad and Mother, especially when they lived next door to Cresent Hill Hostel in Jos, Nigeria when Uncle Henry and Aunt Margaret were house parents. Don't know if you knew that the night that Uncle Henry died, the next morning when Mother came to see Dad at the nursing home. Dad exclaimed to her that they had lost a very dear friend in the night, but...

We pray God's comforting presence on each of those who knew and loved Margaret. Our first year in Nigeria was spent in Oyo learning from Henry and Margaret when the triplets were just over a year old. Then she was housemom to several of our kids. We are blessed by every memory of her.

We thank God for Margaret and Henry, who served faithfully in Nigeria and also in Memphis after coming home. They were parents to three of our children during their boarding school days at Hillcrest School in Jos, Nigeria. We appreciate the love, patience, and guidance they gave to the children in their care. We also want to thank John, Mike, Margaret Ellen, and Mary Anne for sharing their parents with the other missionary children. We will always love them and miss them.

I will always miss her warmth, wisdom, support, and love. I loved making her laugh. She was the other half of my Mother and I will miss her always.

Barry and I will always remember how she and Rev Martin made us feel as if we were family during the 2 yrs we were in Memphis. After moving to Houston we joined the same church with her daughter, Mary Ann, and continued our friendship with the family. Mary Ann, we will be praying for the family and thank God for you all.

We all loved her grace, courage, wit, compassion, and boundless love for all things. She will be missed by so many, all whom she came in contact with. I always thought of her and my Mom as the same person, beautiful in life.

Aunt Margaret and her family made me feel so comfortable when I joined. I was so scared and came in at an awkward age but never once felt out of place. I loved she and Uncle Henry so much and my life was happier having known them.

Aunt Margaret was my first housemom. I was as "bush" as they came. Her southern grace and charm in all situations still reminds me what a lady should be. She raised her african roses into beautiful blooms, both the plants and the people.
My prayers are with all who loved and knew her, she will be missed deeply.