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Portrait of Martha Lee Barker-Emmert
IN LOVING MEMORY OF MY MOTHER

Martha Lee Barker-Emmert

January 7, 1902 – December 18, 1984
Lived 82 years
West view Cemetery · Augusta, Georgia
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1902
Born January 7
1908
Martha was 6 when "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" was written
1917
Martha was 15 when the United States entered World War I
1920
Martha was 18 when Prohibition began
1939
Martha was 37 when "Gone with the Wind" premiered in Atlanta
1947
Martha was 45 when Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier
1958
Martha was 56 when the Hula Hoop craze swept the country
1964
Martha was 62 when the Beatles appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show
1974
Martha was 72 when Richard Nixon resigned the presidency
1981
Martha was 79 when MTV began broadcasting
1984
Passed away December 18, age 82
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Oliver Emmert, Jr 171w

My Loving Mother

My mother was a kind a loving soul. She worked hard her entire life. She loved her family. She lived in Texas. Oklahoma Colorado and in Georgia her final years. She had one son by a previous marriage and then me when she was 41, my dad was 50. She loved me very much. After her mother Passed her dad came to live with us. John Henry Barker. She was one of eight children 4 boys and 4 girls. I love you and miss you always, Forever. Oliver Emmert JR

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