Greg Newton Martin

Greg Newton Martin passed away peacefully the morning of Monday, the 3rd of July 2023, at home in Houston, Texas. He was born in Austin, Texas on the 13th of August 1938, to Marie and Elmer Martin in the Rosedale neighborhood. Greg attended McCallum High School and graduated from the University of Texas with a BBA in Finance and a JD. While he was an undergrad at UT, Greg was a member of the Texas Cowboys organization, the Phi Kappa Psi Social fraternity and played for the Longhorn Varsity Baseball team.

His love of baseball did not begin or end with the Longhorn Baseball program, though. A player in the Babe Ruth League and the Little Bigger League, he was a member of the 1951 North Austin team that made it to the Little League World Series final game against Stamford, Connecticut in Williamstown, Pennsylvania. While there, he and his teammates had the honor of meeting baseball greats Stan Musial and Cy Young. And though he traded in his baseball dreams for a practical profession, he continued to enjoy life on the diamond with the Legal Eagle Slow Pitch team of the Houston Bar Association Softball League

Greg began his law career with the U.S. Army JAG Corp at Ft. Polk, Louisiana, and started in private practice at Hutchinson and Grundy in Houston, Texas. During his tenure there, he served as the president of the Houston Junior Bar Association, a member of the Houston Legal Foundation Board, and Chairman of the Real Estate Section of the Houston Bar Association. In 1998 he joined Baker Botts until he retired from law in 2004.

Though his career in law kept him yoked to his desk during the week, the weekends, for Greg, were all about physical work. Along with his wife Barbara, he built by hand a "log cabin" on his property in Austin County near Bellville, TX where generations of Martins not only learned the value of hard physical labor, but also where they convened annually for Thanksgiving Day festivities which always included a skeet shooting contest, smoked sausage and fried turkey, and a sunset hayride.

After Greg retired, he and Barbara split their time between Bellville and their place in Durango, CO where they enjoyed hiking and life without humidity and mosquitoes.

He was preceded in death by his parents and his brother, Gary Martin in 2004.

Greg is survived by his wife of 48 years, Barbara Carney Martin and his two children by his first wife Judy Lander; daughter, Kathleen Faas who lives in Santa Monica with her husband Guido and their children Stella and Archer; and his son, Dr. Andrew Martin who lives in Houston and his wife Bronwen and their three children Olive, Coral, and Stratton; his sisters and brothers-in-law, Joan Martin, M.K. and Steve Harshfield, Mary and Jim Carney, Peg and Dan Lenzen, Cindy and Mike Carney, Bonny and Chuck Carney, Sue and Terry Reishus and Cyn and Tom Carney; other survivors include numerous nieces, nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews.

At a later date, the family will gather for a private celebration honoring Greg's life in the grand foyer of Geo. H. Lewis & Sons - The Funeral Directors, 1010 Bering Drive in Houston, Texas.

In lieu of customary remembrances, memorial contributions in honor of Greg may be directed to Amazing Place, 3735 Drexel Drive, Houston, TX 77027 or Interfaith Care Partners, 3838 Aberdeen Way, Houston, TX 77025 or Spring Spirit Baseball, 8526 Pitner Road, Houston, TX 77080.