MARTIN, RAYMOND ARZIE (1906 - 1996) Arzie Martin Services for Arzie Martin, 90, of Ropesville will be at 10:00 a.m. Saturday in Ropesville United Methodist Church with the Rev. Ted Dotts, chaplain of Methodist Hospital officiating. Burial will be in the Ropesville Cemetery under direction of Franklin-Bartley FuneralHome. Martin died Wednesday, June 12, 1996, in Lynwood Manor in Levelland. He was born March 9, 1906, in McMinnville, Tennessee. He moved to Ropesville from Paris, Texas in 1925. He married Roxie Cooper on October 29, 1929 in Lubbock. She died May 30, 1996. He owned several businesses in the Ropesville area and he helped build Ropesville United Methodist Church. Two sons, Raymond and Clifford, preceded him in death. Survivors include two sons, Leonard of Levelland and Billy Ray of Howe, Ok.; two daughters, Jesse Faye Martin of Ropesville and Helen Hazelbaker of Smyer; a sister, Lucy Littlefield of Ropesville; 12 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials to Ropesville United Methodist Church. AVALANCHE JOURNAL, Lubbock, TX, June 1996. Taken from the Lubbock Avalanche Journal in May of 1996