Margaret Martin

Funeral services for Margaret Neal Ryan Martin, age 95 of Cookeville, will be held Sunday April 21st at 3pm at Eastwood Baptist Church with Rev. Tracy Gross and Rev. Clint Walker officiating. Interment will follow in Cookeville City Cemetery. Mrs. Martin"�s family will receive friends on Sunday from 1pm until service time at the church. Mrs. Martin died Thursday evening April 18, 2013 in Heritage Pointe Senior Living. She was born April 23, 1917 in Hartselle, Alabama to the late Lee Thornton and Bessie Goodwin Ryan. Mrs. Martin was a longtime and devoted member of Eastwood Baptist Church. She loved serving any need of the church. She also had a special love for her great grandchildren. In addition to her parents, she was proceeded in death by her husband Osby L. Martin (who died January 15, 1974); daughter, Bessie Lee Martin Howell; three sisters, Ruth Martin, Edith Shaw, Delia Bryson ; and by a brother, Thornton Ryan. She is survived by her granddaughter, Samantha Howell McCowan and husband Richard of Cookeville; great-grandchildren, Courtney Lee Ann McCowan and Austin Silas McCowan; and by a son-in-law, Winnell Howell. Family and friends will serve as pallbearers.