Dr. Jerry G. MartinezDr.

Jerry G. Martinez passed peacefully from this world on Sunday morning February 19, 2012. He grew up in Miami with his younger twin sisters, Gert and Marianna. He graduated from high school early to join the Army to fight in WWII. He received the Purple Heart and painful field promotion from PFC to Sergeant when his unit suffered heavy losses in Germany.On redeployment to the Pacific Northwest, he met and married Elizabeth Villa Parmalee, the love of his life. They moved to Chicago where they started a family, and where he graduated from National College of Chiropractic and Naturopathic Medicine. On their return he started his practice in Seattle, and then Fall City.He was active in the Fall City Methodist Church, and was the sound director in the early days of the Fall City Passion Play. He served in Kiwanis and was an early supporter of Bastyr University as the Chairman of the Board. He was in private practice for nearly forty years on the Eastside before retiring to Lynnwood where he and Villa managed an apartment complex and attended the Lynnwood Evangelical Free Church.Jerry was an avid reader and his hobbies included diving, boating, golfing and woodworking. He and Villa also enjoyed square dancing, ballroom dancing and camping with their children and friends. He is preceded to his heavenly reward by his wife of 64 years, Villa, and survived by his sisters Gert and Marianna, his daughters Pam and Penny, his sons Jerry (Rosemary), John (Kathy), and Robert (Frances) and his grandchildren and great-grand- children. He will be greatly missed.Memorial Service was held at Flintoff’s Funeral Home in Issaquah Thursday, February 23, 2012. A reception followed. The Graveside Service was held at the Fall City Cemetery on Friday, February 24, 2012.

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