May 16, 1931 –  April 9, 2012 Martha was a life long resident of Fannin County attending school in Ector and graduating from Savoy High School. She retired as a cook from the Sam Rayburn’s Veterans Hospital in Bonham, Texas and was a member of the First Baptist Church in Savoy. Martha is survived by her son and his wife Oscar and Georgia Elk, daughter Lera Brinson and daughter and her husband Becky and John Woodson, sister Nina Bromley, grandchildren Theresa Harper, Renate and Rob Ford, Ben Mathis and Misty Woodson.