Beverly Sue Harmon Martin

Beverly Sue Harmon Martin
Feb. 5, 1945 – March 8, 2015

Beverly Sue Harmon Martin died on March 8, 2015, at the age of 70. She fought a valiant fight against ovarian cancer for 6 and a half years.
Beverly Sue was born to Clifford W. and Vivian Baker Harmon on Feb. 5, 1945, in Lubbock, Texas. She was the oldest of six children.
Since she was a member of an Air Force family, she moved to many states as a child. Her father was a B-52 pilot during this time.
She graduated from Steven D. Lee High School in Columbus, Mississippi, in 1963. In 1967, she graduated from Missouri State University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Elementary Education. She is a member of Sigma Kappa Sorority.
She moved to Denver, Colorado, and married Thomas Eugene Martin on Aug. 23, 1968. She continued to move around, as Tom’s career took them to California, Washington, Texas and Ohio.
She had the opportunity to teach elementary school in many schools and she and Tom retired three years ago to their adopted hometown of Marble Falls.
She is survived by: her husband, Tom; one son and daughter-in-law, Sean and Deena Martin, of Richardson, Texas; and one daughter andn son-in-law, Billy and Katherine (Katie) Martin Withrow, of Dallas, Texas; one granddaughter, Laney Grace Martin, of Richardson, Texas.
She is also survived by: two sisters and three brothers. Sisters are: Deen Crawford and her husband, Lewis, of Moscow, Tennessee, and Elaine Bradford of Thornton, Colorado. Her brothers include Brett Harmon of Houston, Texas; Tom Harmon and his wife, Barbara, of Germantown, Tennessee; and Dick Harmon and his wife, Cindy, of Hoover, Alabama.
Beverly Sue loved to read, cook, travel, watch college football games and research family genealogy. She discovered through her research that she is a fifth generation Texan. She loved butterflies and was herself as delicate as a butterfly.
Most of all, she loved her family and especially enjoyed spending time with her little four-year-old granddaughter, Laney.
The above is her obituary as she wrote it, but as was her nature, it is overly modest about the impact she had as a teacher and the depth of her genealogy research. Parents of former students have tracked her down to apprise her of the influence she had on their children’s lives; this included one student earning the title of valedictorian. She researched both the Martin and Harmon lineages over the past 14 years and yielded over 5,500 names in the family trees going back to 1595. She published a book for each family documenting her research. Among the more interesting things she uncovered was that she had ancestors who fought at the Battle of the Alamo and in the Revolutionary War.
Due to her love of bluebonnets, a wake will be held in Marble Falls in the peak of their bloom. An additional wake will be held in Dallas at a later date. Donations in her memory may be made to the Ovarian Cancer Research Fund.