Extracted from The Press-Register (Mobile, AL)
Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Martha Elizabeth Martin-Walworth

Martha Martin-Walworth Martha Elizabeth Martin-Walworth, a retired longtime executive secretary, died Sunday at an area hospice after a lengthy illness. She was 82.

She was a native of Ellisville, Miss., and a resident of Mobile since 1993.

After graduating from Jones County Agricultural High School in Ellisville, she went to work for the U.S. Signal Corps at the Pentagon in Washington, and later worked as a secretary for Masonite Corp. in Laurel, Miss. She had also worked with Mississippi Chemical Corp. in Yazoo City, Miss., and with the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission at Ingalls Shipbuilding. She served as executive secretary to then-Adm. Hyman Rickover while she worked with the submarine program, according to relatives. She also worked with Westinghouse Electrical Corp. as an executive secretary to the Navy. She retired in 1966.

She was a charter member of West Ellisville Baptist Church, and had been affiliated with the Southern Baptist Convention and the First Methodist Church of Pascagoula. After moving to Mobile in 1993, she joined Spring Hill Baptist Church.

She had also been a volunteer with the Waterfront Rescue Mission.

Survivors include her husband, the Rev. E.H. Walworth of Houston; two daughters, Andrea Martin Wilson of Mobile and Carolyn Elaine Hembree of Baton Rouge, La.; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be today from 11 a.m. until the noon funeral at the Spring Hill Baptist Church Chapel. Burial will be in Pine Crest West Cemetery on Snow Road. Arrangements are by Radney Funeral Home on Dauphin Street.

Memorials may be made to the Spring Hill Baptist Church Music Ministry, 2 S. McGregor Ave., Mobile AL 36608.