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Saturday, July 20, 2019

My Dad, Louis Martin. You would have been 88 today! Celebrating the last 20 years in heaven with Jesus!

Louis and Lila Martin

My Dad, Louis Martin. You would have been 88 today!

Celebrating the last 20 years in heaven!

The Louis and Lila Martin family. 1975 (?) in Cedar Falls, Iowa.

July 20, 2019

Happy birthday, Dad! You would have been 88 today! But for the last 20, you have been working with Jesus in heaven, for you were not one to just sit around. You taught your kids well by your example!

Thanks, Dad. We love you! See you in a bit...

Love you,

Steve

Dad and Mom wedding photo in Plainview, MN. June 28, 1952 (I think)

Louis Martin, young man around 1951

Dad and Mom

Dad (lower right) with older sisters Jean, Esther and brother Bill

Looking to heaven!

Dad's Mom, Julia Martin

Dad knew the way. And followed Him.

My Mom wrote this, to help me remember!

"We moved here (Charlotte, NC) June 1996. He died 3 years later. He had cancer a total of 4 years. We bought our house here in Pineville, NC in February 1995. Found out he had cancer in August of that year. Mary and Bob(Smith, my 2nd of 5 sisters) rented the house while we were in Iowa getting Chemo. He had Chemo for 6 months. Then we sold our home there and moved here to NC June 1996 thinking he was in remission. He began Chemo again in August 1996. He was in Hospice for 2 months before he passed on.

His business was called LJM Services. He had that for over 25 years. He worked at the Viking Pump Foundary as the maintenance man for 33 and 1/2 years and retired 4 years before he died."

Jesus Christ, Yeshua HaMashiach

And my Dad knew, and knows, Him!

Thursday, July 18, 2019

My dad, Louis James Martin. Went to heaven 20 years ago on July 18, 1999.

My dad, Louis James Martin.

Went to heaven 20 years ago.

July 18, 1999

July 18, 2019

Twenty years ago today my Dad (pictured in the photo, bottom right, with his two older sisters Esther Martin Lyons and Jean Martin Schultz, and his older brother, Bill Martin) went to heaven, after having lymphoma cancer. He would have been 70 three days later.

Mom (Lila Martin Parker) and Dad had moved here in Charlotte, North Carolina just 4 years prior, from Cedar Falls, Iowa, to be with several of the 8 kids who then lived here, and to assist me with the ministry I worked with at the time. Being a "do-whatever-it-takes" kind of guy, and knowing much of the construction and electrical trade, he was quite the one to have around.

I remember one specific time when he and I took out the horse barn doors in that barn to make the place into a House of the Lord at All Nations Church in Charlotte, North Carolina.

Also the time he worked on the Heritage USA amphitheater in Fort Mill, South Carolina, upgrading the electrical wiring, so the show could go on - "The Passion Play." (That same piece of ground is just a few hundred yards where I now work at Antioch International Church.)

Dad was a hard worker, often more than 60 hours a week with his maintenance job at Viking Pump Foundry in Cedar Falls, and his own electrical business called Martin Electrical Services. He would rewire churches at no cost to them.

He did not say a whole lot. Most often what he did was enough to show his concerns for being responsible, diligent, and providing for his family - Mom and the 8 kids.

I know Dad is with our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ now. He professed faith in the Lord after a Bill Gaither Trio concert. Maybe he did before he reached 50, but at least at that time, it was for certain.

Thank you, Lord, for my Dad. He was a true example to me!

With my love,

Steve