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	<title>Thomas Ray Martin</title>
	
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	<description>Entrepreneur / Inventor / Marine / Father</description>
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		<title>Letter 1953/02/16 – Fun on the Davenport</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 03:17:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sun 9 P.M. Hi my honey: This has been a different day. Rick and I went swimming today at the high school. He needed it because he was recuperating from a scotch hang over. But all in all it was pretty good. My darling you said that you had off from the twentieth to the [...]


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		<title>Letter 1953/01/23 – Devil Dog</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:59:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Friday 1/23/53, 12 noon My darling Marie, How’s my darling today?&#160; The darnedest thing happened to me last night. After I wrote you a letter I went to bed. Then about 2:30 in the morning I heard my dog barking outside. I remember letting him out but not letting him in. So I fell out [...]


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		<title>Tom’s Letters</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Nov 2010 02:57:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom’s wife Hazel has given me two boxes full of letters and cards that Tom sent Haze during their courtship in the early 1950s and while he was at war in Korea.&#160; I have begun to scan and digitize the documents, and with Hazel’s permission and blessing, I am posting some of the letters here [...]


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		<title>Happy Veteran’s Day 2010</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Nov 2010 23:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy Veteran&#8217;s Day, Dad!&#160; Here&#8217;s a photo of Tom with his mother Be, just before he shipped out to the Korean War. I love that look on Grandma Be’s face.&#160; Perhaps I am reading too much into it, but I sense a combination of pride (her Marine son is serving our country) and fear (he [...]


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		<title>Tom Martin, United States Marine</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 31 May 2010 22:22:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We celebrate this Memorial Day 2010 by remembering our father, Thomas Ray Martin, and his brave service as a United States Marine during the Korean War.&#160; Here are some photos of Tom’s life during his service to our country. Tom is the third National Guard from the left, working crowd-control for General Douglas MacArthur.&#160; MacArthur [...]


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		<title>Tom’s Life in Pictures</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Apr 2010 14:15:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our dear father Tom passed away one year ago today.&#160; We miss him very much!&#160; Today we will celebrate Tom’s life in pictures.&#160; These photos span Tom’s long life and are captured from the “Tom &#38; Hazel 75 Years Young” book. Here is Tom as a baby, a boy, and a young man: &#160; &#160; [...]


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		<title>Happy Birthday, Dad!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Dec 2009 01:22:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We celebrated Tom’s first birthday since he passed away by having lunch and reminiscing about him at one of his favorite restaurants on the beach.&#160; It was a nice lunch, and Dad was with us there in spirit.&#160; We had his five favorite C’s: chocolate, coffee, Coke, cookies and cashews. Back row: Steven, Laura and [...]


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		<title>Making Rosettes</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2009 16:37:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of Tom’s favorite Christmas activities was to make rosettes, a traditional Scandinavian fried cookie.&#160; We celebrated Dad’s birthday by making dozens of rosettes with a 130-year-old rosette iron that originally belonged to Grandma Semke’s mother. After seasoning the iron, Lisa watches Heather and Ryan make our first pair of rosettes. &#160; Lisa holds Silvie, [...]


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		<title>Thomas R. Martin Memorial Guest Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 02:23:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Timm</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Following are entries in the Memorial Guest Book for Thomas R. Martin, December 5, 1932 &#8211; April 13, 2009.&#160; Since I’m not sure how long the entries will remain on the funeral site, I’ve reproduced them here so they remain visible forever.&#160; Click here to sign the guest book, or better yet, please leave a [...]


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		<title>Tom Martin’s Patent 4,048,915 – Method and Apparatus for Denesting Egg Cartons</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tom</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Tom Martin owned a company called “Condes Corporation” which among other things built egg carton printers.&#160; These machines would allow egg producers to print over a hundred egg cartons per minute on the inside cover, outside cover and outside edge of the carton.&#160; Condes had a near-monopoly on egg carton printers in the 1970s and [...]


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