Mildred T. Martin

SKOWHEGAN – Reverend Mildred T. Martin, 94, passed away on July 7, 2025, at Cedar Ridge Nursing Home. Millie was born in September 1930 in Sheridan, Pa., to Arthur and Mildred Toplis. She grew up in Sheridan and graduated from Langley High School in 1948. She married the late Reverend James W. Martin Jr., in September of 1949. They were happily married until Jim passed in 2019. They lived in various towns in Western Pennsylvania where they raised four of their own children; Clifford, Paige (deceased), Neil and Kenneth, as well as sister foster daughters Hattie Wolfe and Aimee Twigg. She helped raise two of her grandchildren Nathan Martin and Stephen Supko. She was very close to all four of her grandchildren.

Mildred was a special education teacher for 25 years where she touched the lives of numerous children, teaching them basic life skills. She then transitioned to the Methodist Ministry where she was an ordained minister who served various churches for 30 years. She loved people. She especially loved helping people. Her smile would lift the spirits of everyone who saw it. She loved to sing and was always in at least one choir including the Methodist Ministers Chorus. She traveled extensively, including a three-month evangelical trip to Zimbabwe and several trips to England where she studied John Wesley, the founder of the Methodist Church. She loved to go to New York City to see the theater and would sometimes go alone if she couldn’t coax Jim or a friend to go with her. Millie was a voracious reader who always had a book in her hand. She lived a life full of joy and love spreading the word of Jesus Christ. After Jim’s death in 2019, she moved to Skowhegan to be closer to her son Kenneth.

She was predeceased by her parents, Arthur and Mildred Toplis, husband James W. Martin, Jr., and daughter Paige Martin.

She is survived by her children Clifford Martin and wife Karen Zimmer, Neil Martin and wife Sarah Martin, Kenneth Martin and wife Debra Martin as well as her foster daughters Aimee Twigg and husband Augie Twigg and Hattie Wolfe and husband Leslie Leister; her grandsons; Nathan Martin, Stephen Supko and wife Vanessa, Ross Martin-Wells and wife Kassie Martin-Wells, Ian Martin and wife Floral Reynolds as well as 6 great grandchildren; and her sisters Beverly Jarrell and Janet Fleming.

A memorial service will be held on July 18, 2025, at 2 p.m., at the Somerset Valley Remembrance Center. The service will be live streamed and can be attended virtually through her memorial page below. Burial will be held at a later date.

Please visit Mildred’s memorial page at https://svremembrancecenter.com/obituaries/mildred-martin-2025 where condolences, photos and special memories may be shared.

Memorials may

be made to –

Philip G Cochran

Memorial

United Methodist Church

c/o Lucy Prinkey

124 Raineytown Road

Dawson, PA 15425