Lulu Anne (Rose) Martin

Lulu Anne (Rose) Martin March 6, 1913 ~ Dec. 1, 2010 Resident of Crockett Lulu Martin died peacefully of natural causes Dec. 1 at Pinole Senior Village assisted living facility, where she had lived the past 14 months. She was 97 years, eight months old. The daughter of Joseph Furtado Rose and Filomena Louise (Garcia) Rose, Lulu was the last survivor of her four siblings: Clarence, Marie, Dan, and Edward. She was a premature infant, weighing three pounds at birth, and slept between her mother's breasts for warmth. She became a vibrant, energetic child and maintained those attributes all her life. Lulu graduated from John Swett High School with awards in typing and Gregg shorthand. She worked at C&H Sugar in Crockett until her marriage. Married women were not allowed to work in the refinery in those years except as seasonal help in summer. She married George Raymond Martin Sr., known to all as Ray, in 1935. He died in 1990, 21 years after retiring from American Smelting & Refining Co. in Selby, where he operated heavy equipment and was an active member of the Mine Mill and Smelter Workers Union. They had two children, George, who survives her, and Jacqueline Marie, who died in 1996 at the age of 50. Lulu lived her entire life in the 1400 block of Flora Street in Crockett. After her marriage she and her husband moved two doors up the hill to an apartment at the corner of Sixth Avenue and Flora Street. After a few years, her brother-in-law, James W. Martin, and her brothers built a second house on the family property and she returned to the house she was born in. Later she moved to the new "back house" where her mother lived with the family until her death in 1976. Every summer, with her sister Marie, she made dozens of jars of jam, and canned peaches, pears and apricots. She was an expert seamstress who made some of the family's clothes and mended anything with a rip. She was famous for her Sunday devil's food cakes with raspberry filling. She was very musical, loved to sing, and played the piano by ear. In addition to her son, Lulu is survived by daughter-in-law Barbara; grandsons Gwillym (Michelle) and Luther (Avital); and great-grandsons Cassens, 4, and Oliver 8 months. A Requiem Mass will be celebrated at St. Rose of Lima Catholic Church, 10 a.m. on Saturday, Dec. 11, with a reception to follow in the church hall. In lieu of flowers the family requests donations to the Pinole Senior Village Staff Holiday Fund, 2850 Estates Ave., Pinole CA 95464, in recognition of the tender, compassionate care she received there. She will be interred with her husband at Sunset View Cemetery in El Cerrito, at a later date.

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