Martha Colbert

Martha Lee (Hay) Colbert died Monday, December 6, 2010 at Regent Care Center.

Services will be 10 a.m., Thursday, December 9, at OakCrest Funeral Home, with Rev. Curtis Holland officiating and Rev. Leslie Rosencrans assisting. Burial will follow at Oakwood Cemetery. Visitation will be 5 pm. - 7 p.m. Wednesday, December 8, 2010, at OakCrest Funeral Home, 4520 Bosque Boulevard.

Martha was born January 16, 1929, in Waco, to Ronald and Stella (Easterwood) Hay. She attended Baylor University for three years. During this time, she met Wade Colbert and married him May 27, 1950. They celebrated 60 years of married life.

Martha and Wade were blessed with three children, Liz, Ronald, and Martha Sue and for many years, Martha was a stay-at-home Mom which she enjoyed tremendously.

In 1968, she went to work at Hillcrest Medical Center in the Nursing Service Department for eight years. In 1976, she transferred to the Pastoral Care Department where she remained for eighteen years until she retired in 1994. She often mentioned that those eighteen years spent in the Chaplain's Office were some of the most enjoyable and fulfilling times of her life.

After her retirement, she worked as a visitation receptionist at Connally-Compton Funeral Home and later OakCrest Funeral Home until 2009.

Martha was a member of Seventh and James Baptist Church for over 60 years and participated in the Meals-on-Wheels Program in addition to being active in several other areas of the Church program over the years.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Wade, who passed away January 29, 2010.

Martha is survived by daughters, Elizabeth Sanders and husband, Bill of Waco and Martha Sue Hall and husband, Arthur, of Phoenix, AZ; son, Ronald Colbert and wife, Jane, of Bryan; granddaughters: Barbara Sanders Ellis and husband, Kelly of Corpus Christi, Lacy Sanders of Denver, Col.; and Jennifer Colbert Gore of Waco, Bryan Hall of Phoenix, Ariz., and Jana Lindegren and husband, Morgan of Taylor; great-grandchildren, Bradley and Bayleigh Ellis and Krista and Kaleb Gore; sister, Margaret Mitchell and husband, Bob, of White Bluff; sister-in-law, Ruby Lee Darwin of Port Neches; two nieces, two nephews; several great-nephews and nieces, and her faithful shi-tzu, Ginger.

The family would like to thank the staffs of Hillcrest Home Health, Providence Hospice, and Regent Care for their loving care of our mother.
Memorials may be made to the Children's Ministry of Seventh & James Baptist Church, 602 James St., Waco, TX 76706, or to a charity of your choice.

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