Beverly H. Harmon Martin

February 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 ½ years.

Beverly Sue was born to Clifford W. & Vivian Baker Harmon on February 5, 1945 in Lubbock, Texas. She was the oldest of 6 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 BS in Elementary Education. She is a member of Sigma Kappa Sorority.

She moved to Denver, Colorado and married Thomas Eugene Martin on August 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 3 years ago to their adopted hometown of Marble Falls, Texas.

She is survived by her husband Tom; one son, Sean Martin, and his wife Deena of Richardson, Texas, and one daughter, Katherine (Katie) Martin Withrow and her husband Billy 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 Crawford of Moscow, Tennessee, and Elaine Bradford of Thornton, Colorado. Her brothers include Brett Harmon of Houston, Texas; Tom Harmon and his wife Barbara Harmon of Germantown, Tennessee; and Dick Harmon and his wife Cindy Harmon of Hoover, Alabama.

Beverly Sue loved to read, cook, travel, watch college football games, and research the 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 4 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 5500 names in the family trees going back to 1595. She has published a book for each family documenting her research. Among the more interesting things she uncovered was that she had ancestors that 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.