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Addison N. Martin

Posted 2008-02-17 by Sharon
Wickenburg Sun, Wickenburg, AZ
December 2, 1955, p. 1

Addison N. Martin Funeral Services In New Hampshire

Military funeral services were to be held this week in Penacook, N. H., for Addison N. Martin of Morristown, who passed away at 5:30 p.m. Saturday, November 26 at Community Hospital here.

Although in ill health for many years, Mr Martin's condition did not become critical until Friday evening, when he was admitted to the hospital.

A native of Concord, N. H., where he was born October 4, 1897.

Mr. Martin served 26 years on the police department of that city until the spring of 1946 when ill health forced his retirement. At the time he was working with delinquent youths and supervised a boys' club of some 80 members which was called Addison's Boys' Club.

Upon his retirement, Mr. & Mrs. Martin came to Arizona and after an eight months stay at Cactus, Garden Lodge, bought their own home in Morristown, where they had lived since.

The Survivors -

Surviving besides the widow, who accompanied the body back to New Hampshire, are three sons, Paul of Chicopee, Mass., Arnold of Concord and Robert of New London, N. H. Also the father, Henry O. Martin and a sister, Mrs. Hazel Mounier, both of Wayland, Mass., and a brother, Allen, of Brookline, Mass. Six grandchildren also survive.

Mr. Martin was a veteran of World War I in which he served with the 103rd Infantry, spending 22 months overseas with the American Expeditionary Forces.




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