Jerry Ivan Martin, a 58-year-old resident of Boulder, CO, died on Tuesday, July 3, 2007 at the St. Joseph Hospital in Denver, CO from complications following heart surgery.
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The body was cremated. A memorial service will be held at 2 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2007 at the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Chapel in Princeton. Michael Greenlee and Pastor Guy Olin Thomas will officiate. Burial will be in the Princeton Cemetery at a later date.
Visitation will be from 1 to 2 p.m. on Sunday and following the memorial service.
Mr. Martin was born on Feb. 20, 1949 in Princeton, the son of Homer Ivan and Grace Marie Williams Martin. He lived his early childhood in Princeton, attending school through his freshman year of high school. After his mother was married to Ames Greenlee in 1964, they moved to Lineville, IA, where he graduated at the ACL Community School. He attended Northeast Missouri State College in Kirksville for one year, then transferred to Iowa State University in Ames, IA, where he received a bachelor’s degree in liberal arts and sciences. He lived most of his adult life in the states of Florida and Colorado.
He began a career in the telecommunications industry in 1973 with a company in Denver. He graduated with a master’s degree in transpersonal counseling psychology from Naropa University in Boulder in May 2006. He interned and was then employed as a crisis counselor for emergency psychiatric services at the Mental Health Center of Boulder County, CO.
He is survived by a step-brother, Michael Greenlee and his wife, Christine, of Princeton; a step-sister, Karen McVey of Moore, OK; four step-nieces, Andrea Richards, Gretchen Cleppe, Debbie Rollins and Rondah McVey; eight cousins and many close friends.
He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Judith Marie Martin; a step-father, Ames Greenlee; two uncles, Leroy and Russell Williams; and four aunts, Frances Harris, Doris Taylor, Lois Scheh and Georgia Winans.
Memorials are suggested to the Jerry Martin Memorial Fund for the Mental Crisis Center in Boulder. They may be mailed to the Greenlee-Middleton Funeral Service, PO Box 316, Princeton, MO 64673.