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Note #8078 from PCUSA NEWS to PRESBYNEWS:

Notes about people
04030
January 16, 2004

Notes about people

by Jerry L. Van Marter

	Martha P. Martin, a trailblazing Presbyterian elder, died
unexpectedly Jan. 13, 2004 in her home in Mt. Washington, OH.

	Born in Oakland, IL in 1917, she graduated from the University of
Illinois where she met her husband, Daniel W. Martin.  After rearing three
children, Martha focused on service to the Presbyterian Church.  She was
elected president of Cincinnnati Presbyterial of Presbyterian Women in 1964.
In 1967 she was the first woman ordained as an elder in her home
congregation, Mt. Washington Presbyterian Church, and later was its first
woman clerk of session. In 1971, Martin was the first woman elected moderator
of the Presbytery of Cincinnati. In 1977 she was elected moderator of the
Synod of the Covenant and served as the synod's stated clerk from 1979-1989.

	Nationally, she served as secretary of Presbyterian Women and in 1976
was named vice-moderator of the General Assembly.  She served on the General
Assembly Council from 1989-1995, including one year as vice-moderator and one
year as moderator of the council.

	She is survived by her brother, Van Parker ofCarmichael, CA; three
children, Mary (James) Kilpatrick of Wooster, OH, David Martin of Cary, NC,
and Nancy (Richard) Glasgow of Hays, KS; eight grandchildren and six great
grandchildren.	She was preceded in death by her husband, Daniel W. Martin,
and an infant son, Donald W. Martin.

	Memorial services will be held Jan. 17 at Mount Washington
Presbyterian Church.

		       # # #

	Horace G. Underwood, a third-generation Presbyterian missionary in
Korea, died Jan. 15 in Seoul, Korea, of natural causes. He was 87.

	His grandfather, also Horace G. Underwood, founded Yonsei University
in Seoul. The younger Horace was born in Seoul in 1917 and lived there until
returning to the United States to attend college. He returned to Korea in
1939 as a Presbyterian missionary. He joined the U.S. Navy after Pearl Harbor
but returned again to Korea after the war, where he witnessed an important
part of U.S. history, serving as senior interpreter during the Panmunjon
Armistice negotiations during the Korean War.

	Underwood officially retired in 1984 but immediately went to work as
a long term mission volunteer for the PC(USA), serving until his death as
assistant to the president  and then as university director of Yonsei
University.

	He is survived by his wife and three sons. Funeral services will be
Jan. 19 at Yonsei University.

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