Submitted by Patricia Keenan, July 30, 2009
COLE, Martha A. – Died 22 July 2009 – Bowers Funeral Home
Funeral services for Mrs. Martha A. Cole will be held on Monday, July 27, 2009
at 10:00a.m. at Ricks-Bowers Funeral Home in Jewett. Interment will follow the
services at Marquez Cemetery. Visitation will be held on Sunday from 2:00p.m.
until 5:00p.m. at the funeral home. Mrs. Cole passed from this earth on
Wednesday, July 22, 2009 at the age of 70. She was at her home on Lake Limestone
completing her journey and battle against cancer. Martha was born on September
22, 1938 in Indio, California. She spent the majority of her childhood in
central Texas. She met her husband of 50 years, Virgil Ralph Cole Jr., at Texas
A&I University and they were married on May 24th, 1959. They lived several
places throughout their married life, but eventually settled in the Houston
area. Martha was a high school math teacher for thirty years as well as school
principal until her retirement. But, she was so much more to those who knew and
loved her. She was a beloved sister-in-law, aunt, cousin, and niece. She was a
photographer, an artist, a gentle loving spirit and an inspiration. She loved
crafts, her dogs, her church, her family and God.
Martha is survived by her husband, Ralph Cole of Lake Limestone; her daughter Vanessa R. Cole, of Dallas, TX; younger sisters Judy Grounds of Granbury, TX; Brenda Smith of Overland Park, KS and Linda Baker of Atlanta, GA., brothers and sisters-in law, several nieces , nephews, aunts, uncles and cousins.
She was preceded in death by her mother, Dwindolyn (Crouch) Davis and her father, James A. Davis, Jr.
Memorials can be made in her honor to the M.D. Anderson Children’s Art Project, https://www.childrensartproject.org