K. Jean Martin

January 31, 1926 - February 10, 2011

WATERLOO- Kathryn Jean Martin, 85, passed away peacefully on Thursday (Feb. 10, 2011) at Geneva General Hospital following a brief illness. Funeral services will be on Monday (Feb. 14) at 10:00am at the DeVaney-Bennett Funeral Home, 181 N. Main St., Geneva. The Rev. Tae Kun Kim, Pastor of the First United Methodist Church will officiate. Burial will follow in Oaklawn Cemetery. Jean was born January 31, 1926 in Geneva. She was the daughter of the late Harold and Erma Cook Serven. She was a life-long resident of the Border city area. On November 11, 1945, she married "the love of her life", Samuel J. Martin. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Geneva where she used to sing in the choir. Over the years, she worked at John Handcock, the Presbyterian Church, McCurdy's, and Margaret O'Brian's all in Geneva. She was a devoted wife and a most loving and caring mother and grandmother. She had a talent for sewing, knitting, and crocheting. Jean also enjoyed working outside in her flower beds, feeding the birds, doing jigsaw puzzles, working on her search-a-word puzzle books, and working on the Serven family geneology. She is loved and will be dearly missed by her husband: Samuel; two sons: David (Coral) Martin of N. Tonawanda and Stephen Martin of Waterloo; Daughter: Suzette (Dale) Hedge of Seneca Falls; five grandchildren: Pam (Eric) Yuhnke of Portland, Oregon; Christopher (Nicole) Martin of Warsaw, Jennifer, Katie, and Jaimie Hedge of Seneca Falls; and sister-in-law: Betty Serven of Romulus. Jean was predeceased by her brother, Harold Serven.