- Date Of Birth: August 8, 1929
- Date Of Death: October 2, 2022
- State: Florida
William Fenten Martin, 93 of Melbourne, Florida passed away peacefully on Sunday, October 2, 2022. He was born in Ada, Oklahoma the son of Ed. F. and Ida Pearl Martin. He moved to Kissimmee, Florida in 1991 from Olive Branch, Mississippi and then to Melbourne, Florida in 2021 from Kissimmee.
William is survived by his loving wife of 22 years, Yvonne Martin of Melbourne, Florida; His daughter: Debra Ramsey of Kissimmee, Florida; 2 grandchildren: Leslie Potter and Angela Eck; one great grandchild: Edie Eck; and his caregivers and best friends Eileen Mendyk of Melbourne, Florida and Pauline Kelly of Central Florida.
High Flight by John Gillespie Magee, Jr.
Oh! I have slipped the surly bonds of Earth
And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings;
Sunward I’ve climbed, and joined the tumbling mirth
Of sun-split clouds,–and done a hundred things
You have not dreamed of – wheeled and soared and swung
High in the sunlit silence. Hovering there,
I’ve chased the shouting wind along, and flung
My eager craft through footless halls of air….
Up, up the long, delirious burning blue
I’ve topped the wind-swept heights with easy grace
Where never a lark, or ever eagle flew —
And, while with silent, lifting mind I’ve trod
The high untrespassed sanctity of space,
Put out my hand, and touched the face of God.
