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DATE: Thursday, July 27, 1995                TAG: 9507270344
SECTION: LOCAL                    PAGE: B6   EDITION: FINAL 
DATELINE: MOYOCK                             LENGTH: Short :   29 lines

MARK A. MARTIN

Mark Allen Martin, 21, of Pike Street, Tulls Bay Colony, died Monday, July 24, 1995.

Mark was employed by A & A Sheet Metal Co. in Portsmouth as a sheet metal mechanic. He was a Baptist.

Survivors include his mother, Shirley Martin Powers of Moyock; his father, John Wesley Martin Sr., also of Moyock; a fiancee, Holly McClure of Moyock; two sisters, Shirley Faye Lewis of Norfolk and Darlene Sibley of Chesapeake; a brother, John ``Jay'' Wesley Martin III of Moyock; a maternal grandmother, Minerva Hawkins of Port Orchard, Wash.; two half-sisters, Sandra Keller of Norfolk and Lynn Bush of Mississippi and two half-brothers, Wayne Martin and Larry Martin, both of Louisiana.

A service will be held in the chapel of Twiford Funeral Home, Colonial Chapel, Chesapeake, Saturday, July 29, 1995 at 1 p.m. with Rev. Charles Wellons officiating. Burial will follow in Woodlawn Memorial Gardens, Norfolk. The family will receive friends Friday from 7 to 8:30 p.m. at the funeral home.

KEYWORDS: DEATH OBITUARY by CNB