Meg graduated from Upper Iowa University, teaching English and Social Studies in area schools. Three years later, in the Fall of 1944, she boarded a train from LaCrosse, Wis., to Seattle, transferring to Petersburg, Alaska, where she taught for four years.
She married the love of her life, Robert “Tink” Martin, in September of 1947. In 1948, at the end of that school year, she was told that it was the school board’s policy not to hire married female teachers, so she concentrated on raising her two sons, Bob, born in 1948, and Terry, born in 1949.
Meg and Tink moved to Seattle in 1957, because of his association with the J.A. Troxell Company, which was headquartered there. Due to the nature of Tink’s work, they lived in many other locations around the country, including 13 years spent in Fairbanks, Alaska, while Tink worked on the Trans Alaska Pipeline and other major projects. The couple left Alaska in 1986, and retired in the Chehalis- Centralia area.
Her fondest memories were of camping at Five Mile and Colp’s Lake, walking the boardwalk to Sandy Beach, dancing at the Sons of Norway Hall, watching passenger ships glide past the narrows in Skylark City and most of all, the fine friendships made during the family’s time in “Little Norway,” a nickname given to the Petersburg area because of numerous Norwegian residents.
Meg was preceded in death by her parents; and son, Bob.
She is survived by her sweetheart, Tink; son and daughter-in-law, Terry and Judy Martin, and their children, Tanner, Cami and Cayce.
A celebration of Meg’s life will be held at 2 p.m., Sunday, May 27, 2018, at the Gathering Place at Stillwaters Estates, 2800 Cooks Hill Rd., Centralia. A graveside service is scheduled for 3 p.m., Saturday, May 26, 2018, at Claquato Cemetery, 142 Stearns Rd., Chehalis.
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