A graveside service will be held for Eleanor Martin, who passed away on March 29, 2022. The service will be held at the German Cemetery in Waldoboro, on Saturday, June 4, 2022, at 2 p.m.

Halls of Waldoboro has care of the arrangements.

Eleanor Joyce Benner Martin, beloved wife of Carroll F. Martin, died March 29, 2022, at Miles Memorial Hospital in Damariscotta, Maine, holding the hand of her lifelong love, Carroll. She was born in Nobleboro, Maine, November 21, 1927 on the Benner family homestead, a daughter of Otis B. Benner, Sr. and Ida E. Jackson Benner. She and her husband wintered in Ocala, Florida, and summered at Searsport and Nobleboro, Maine.

Mrs. Martin was a 1945 graduate of Waldoboro High School and was Class Historian. She was a majorette for the high school band and a cheerleader for the basketball teams. She graduated from Rockland School of Commerce in October 1957. She was a former member of Knox-Lincoln County Extension Association; past President of the Warren Health Council; Sister of Mystic Rebekah Lodge of IOOF in Warren; and was employed at Paragon Button Factory in the Grinding and Finishing Room; Medomak Canning Company, and Sylvania Electric Company in Waldoboro, Maine.

After moving to Searsport with her husband and son, Darrell, in 1962, she was employed by Corn Products Company, International, Inc., as a switchboard operator; Laboratory Technician for Dr. Everett Bryant; and, later as a private secretary for Penobscot Poultry Company in Belfast, Maine, until its closing. She was then employed as an optometric assistant to Dr. Everett Porter, in Belfast until her retirement.

Mrs. Martin was an avid genealogist, homemaker, and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother. She was formerly affiliated with the Baptist Church in Waldoboro as a Sunday School teacher and was a book critic for several book publishers.

Besides her husband who was her high school sweetheart and companion for 75 years, she is survived by her one son, Darrell O. Martin and his companion, Linda Duncan, both of St. George, Maine, and Myrtle Beach, South Carolina; two grandsons, Daren C. Martin and his wife Melanie of Union and Dean C. Martin and his wife Kali of Warren; great grandchildren Hannah R. Hewes of Rockland, and Cameron D. Martin of Warren, the mother of her grandsons, Paulette Martin of Rockport; brothers Ronald L. Benner of Union and Robert A. Benner of Waldoboro; cousins Murial Aker of Nova Scotia; Janet Hallowell of Bar Harbor and Bruce Atkinson of Georgia, as well as many loved nieces and nephews.

Mrs. Martin was predeceased by her sister Sylvia S. Buck of Lincolnville, brother Otis B. Benner of Waldoboro; sister-in-law Anita French Benner of Union; and cousin David Benner of Nobleboro.

Visiting hours will be held on Friday, April 8, 2022, from 5-7 p.m., at Hall Funeral Home, 949 Main Street, in Waldoboro, with a time of sharing at 6:30 p.m.

“Across the years I will walk with you......in deep green forests; on shores of sand; and when our time on earth is through, in heaven too, you will have my hand.”

Hall’s of Waldoboro has care of the arrangements.

To extend online condolences visit their Book of Memories at www.hallfuneralhomes.com.