Tribute to RONALD KENT MARTIN
This is for my Stepfather Ronnie, the PaPaw to my
children, and husband to my mother. I was 13 when Ronnie married my mom.
At the time I despised him, we butted heads all
through my teenage years.
Your not my Father were my famous words to him. As I became older an had
children of my own, Ronnie became their PaPaw since my real father was deceased.
We still butted heads though, I grew to love Ronnie like my children and my
mother did though I never really told him that. On April 18,1992 we were
at the 
river for Easter weekend. Ronnie, my Uncle Johnny, and a family
friend set out in the boat to set trotlines. They never made it back.
Their boat was swept over the
dam, all three drowned. My mother
misses Ronnie very much, my children miss the only PaPaw they ever had, and I
miss him to. I LOVE YOU DEAR, LINDA. WE LOVE YOU PAPAW, GARY AND
NICOLE, I LOVE YOU RONNIE, YOUR STEP DAUGHTER.