Winston Page Martin

TUCSON, AZ - Winston Page Martin of Tucson, passed from this life on Wednesday, November 11, 2015. The son of John P. and Bertha Martin, Winston was born in Lancaster, NH, on May 4, 1924, the seventh of eight children. He attended classes at the one-room Great Rock Schoolhouse, and when it closed he transferred to Lancaster Academy, from where he graduated high school. Growing up and working on John's Roclawn Farm on Lost Nation Road, Winston married Jean Elizabeth Currier of Groveton on August 6, 1949. Winston and Jean took up housekeeping for a time in the old Great Rock Schoolhouse before moving into a house on Lost Nation Road built for them by his father. When John retired from farming, they took over Roclawn Farm, practicing dairy farming, while his parents moved into the house John built. In 1966, Winston sold the farm and moved his family to Mount Dora, Florida, where he found work as a hotel night manager and carpenter. Shortly thereafter, he was employed by the local gas company as a serviceman, and over time worked his way up through the ranks to the position of Office Sales Manager for Texgas of Orlando. He and his wife also owned and operated Martin's Motel in Mount Dora. Upon Winston's retirement in 1989, he and Jean moved to Tucson, along with his daughter Rosemary. He worked part-time for Arbuckle's Coffee Roasters until 2009. Winston was preceded in death by his parents, John Page and Bertha (Marshall) Martin; wife Jean (Currier) Martin; daughter Rosemary Ann Martin; sisters Hazel, Cecile Costine (Stanley) and Doris Nash (Victor); and brothers Millard (Louise), Otis (Elaine), and Stanley. He is survived by his daughter Beth Amy Martin Cochran (Michael) of Tucson, Arizona; son George Winston Martin (Catherine) of Hendersonville, North Carolina; sister Clarice Hinson (Rod) of Omaha, Texas; granddaughters Shannon Cochran, Paige DeKoster (James), Alicia Martin and Amanda Martin; and great-grandchildren Ava and Hunter DeKoster. He will be remembered by his family as a strong, gentle and caring man, full of wisdom and good humor. "Que sera, sera," was his theme song. "What will be, will be." Funeral arrangements are being made by Adair Funeral Home of Tucson, and Bailey Funeral Home of Lancaster. Winston will be laid to rest in the Martin Family plot at Summer Street Cemetery, and a celebration of life with his family is planned for a later date.

Winston Page Martin

May 4, 1924 - November 11, 2015