Margaret gets a push from her sister Agnes
at the Moss homestead in West Alexander, PA.
Our mother, Margaret Hunt was born on February 25, 1931 and grew up on a hilltop farm with four brothers and two sisters in Burton, West Virginia during the Depression. When Mom was three her father perished in a train accident and her mother Georgia, who never remarried, kept the farm running for another 20 years. In the early 1950's Margaret attended the Fairmont General Hospital School of Nursing in Fairmont, West Virginia. It was during her field work in Philadelphia that she met her future husband, Rev. Warren G. Martens. They married in 1953, the same year that she graduated from Fairmont as a Registered Nurse. She worked in her profession until the birth of Robert, returned to nursing after her family had grown to four children, and retired in 1986. Margaret and Warren currently live in West Virginia.
Margaret gets a push from her sister Agnes
at the Moss homestead in West Alexander, PA.
Margaret Elizabeth Martens - age 13
Margaret with her ducks
Two portraits, both at age 13, taken in 1944.
Margaret standing behind Agnes at the time of Agnes' High School graduation.
Agnes wears a "broomstick skirt" - check out those animals.
Margaret and Warren's official wedding portrait - 1953
One of the few photographs taken on their wedding day.
Flanking Margaret and Warren are Reverend Williams and Margaret's mother Georgia.
I blush as I type this!
This is the door to their motel room in Winchester, VA
where they spent their honeymoon night - Woo Hoo!
The motel today is no more.
Yes, its a bad photo! - but its the best I have of Margaret's graduation from
Nursing School.
The RN and the Reverend.