Marian Stover (Landis) Martin Obituary (1931 - 2016)

Marian Stover Landis Martin, 85, of Harrisonburg, passed away on Tuesday November 15, 2016 at the University of Virginia Medical Center. Mrs. Martin was born on July 5, 1931 in Blooming Glen, PA and was a daughter of the late Ephraim Moyer and Mamie Baum (Stover) Landis. Marian graduated from the Grand View Hospital School of Nursing as an RN in 1952, and later graduated from Goshen College in 1960 with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. She worked as a nurse in the various locations where she lived throughout the years: Sellersville, PA, Elkhart, IN, Riverdale, MD, Neffsville, PA, and Harrisonburg, VA. She also worked as a Secretary in Community Relations for Eastern Mennonite High School and as a Medical Transcriptionist for Park View Physicians. Mrs. Martin also helped her husband by typing his Master's and Doctoral Theses and with the four books he wrote. She loved home making and hospitality and was a generous and caring minister's wife. She was a loving and devoted wife, mother, and grandmother. On March 31, 1956 at the Blooming Glen Mennonite Church, she married John Richard Martin who survives. In addition to her husband, Mrs. Martin is survived by her children, Don Richard Martin and wife Barbara of Harrisonburg and their children, Daniel, Timothy, and Philip; Lee Allen Martin and wife Peg of Harrisonburg and their children, Maria and Curtis; Ann Louise Martin and husband James Stutzman of Lancaster, PA, and their children, Emma and Ben; a sister Gladys Stover (Landis) Grasse of Chambersburg, PA; one brother, Ray Stover Landis and wife Frances of Goshen, IN; sister-in-law Joan Landis of Blooming Glen, PA. Mrs. Martin was also preceded in death by her brother, Roy Stover Landis; and a brother-in-law, Dr. A. Meryl Grasse. A memorial service will be held on Sunday November 20, 2016 at 2 PM at the Park View Mennonite Church with Pastors Phil Kniss and Barbara Moyer Lehman officiating. Burial will be held privately. The family will receive friends on Saturday November 19, 2016 from 6 until 8 PM at the Park View Mennonite Church. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to the John and Marian Martin Seminary Scholarship Fund of Eastern Mennonite Seminary, 1200 Park Road, Harrisonburg, VA 22802; or to VMRC C/O The Good Samaritan Fund, 1491 Virginia Ave., Harrisonburg, VA 22802. Those wishing may share a memory or an online condolence by visiting www.mcmullenfh.com Arrangements entrusted to the McMullen Funeral Home, Harrisonburg, VA. 540.833.2891 Click below to watch the tribute video: http://videos.lifetributes.com/752645