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Individual Record for: Maurine Porak (female)

     Nickname: "Pat"

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!NAME:Maurine "Pat" Porak

!OBITUARY: Elston C. Martin was born Sep. 13, 1914 in Hanna to Orlando and Nora (Russell) Mar tin, married Maurine Porak on June 29, 1946 in Muskogee, OK and died Monday, Nov. 27, 2000 i n the Muskogee VA Hospital. Services were Thursday at the First Baptist Church in Hanna foll owed by burial in the Dustin Cemetery under the direction of Black's Funeral Home, Eufaula . Survivors include his wife; a daughter and son-in-law, Susan and Larry Leichtman of Virgin ia Beach, VA; three sisters, Nadine Martin of Eufaula, Mary Thomas of Salt Lake City, UT an d Bernice Wells of Tucson, AZ; three grandchildren, David Leichtman of Norman and Laura and L ogan Leichtman of Virginia Beach, VA. He was preceded in death by his parents and a sister , Helen Duncan. - THE INDIAN JOURNAL, Thursday, December 7, 2000.

!OBITUARY:Maurine Porak Martin Maurine Porak Martin, 82, of Hanna, Oklahoma, died on Monday , May 28, 2002. Graveside services were held at Humboldt Cemetery June 1, 2002 in Humboldt , Nebraska. Maurine was the daughter of Frank and Cleo Porak, and was born September 19, 191 9 in Humboldt, Nebraska. She attended the Humboldt High School and received her collage dipl oma from the University of Arizona. Maurine was a professional trumpet player, greeting car d writer, and served in WWII as a Seaman First Class. On June 29, 1946, she was united in ma rriage to Elston C. Martin at Springfield, MO. The Couple established their home in Springfi eld, Missouri and later moved to Tucson, Arizona, El Paso, Texas and then Hanna, Oklahoma. S he was very active in the United Methodist Church where she served as Sunday School Teacher a nd many other activities in the church. She was a woman of faith, an escellent mother and wi fe, and an independent and strong woman. She is survived by one daughter, Susan and her husb and, Dr. Larry Leichtman of Virginia Beach, Virginia; three grandchildren, David, Laura, an d Logan Leichtman all of Virginia Beach, Virginia; and one sister, Doris Wilson of Omaha, Neb raska. She was preceded in death by her parents, and her husband, Elston Martin. - Sourc e - Indian Journal Newspaper - Eufaula, McIntosh, Oklahoma - Thursday June 6, 2002.

!BIO: - Uncle Elston as we called him, Uncle Elston Claude Martin, worked for the Railroad, h e was a conductor for the Southern Pacific Railroad. Aunt Nadine Martin told the story tha t Uncle Elston Claude Martin took a leave of absence from the Railroad and in Springfield, Mi ssouri he took a job as an insurance sells man. Aunt Nadine Martin said there is a picture o f Elston Martin dancing on a table after he was told that he had sold the most insurance acco unts, and that the compay was going to reward him for a nice job well done, by giving him th e first car off the block. Aunt Nadine said that making cars had stopped during the war, an d now that the war was over, he, uncle Elston Claude Martin, was going to get the first car o ff the line for selling the most insurance accounts. Uncle Elston and his second wife, Aun t Pat, bought grandpap's farm in Oklahoma and through their life time added to the size of th e farm until they owned over a thousand acres. Uncle Elston Claude Martin is buried in Dusti n City Cemetery, Dustin, Hughs, Oklahoma. Aunt Maurine "Pat" (Porak) Martin is buried in Hum boldt, Richardson, Nebraska next to her parents.

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