Lavon M. (Peters) McCormick Martin passed peacefully in her sleep at home in Chappell Hill, Texas on her 87th birthday. Born September 30, 1924 in Burley, Idaho to Harry S. and Lena I. (Hubbard) Peters, Lavon grew up in Minneapolis, Kansas. A graduate of the University of Kansas, she was employed at Gulf Oil in Ft. Worth, Texas until her marriage to J. D. McCormick of Grapevine, Texas. They had two daughters, Donna Claire and Carey Ann.

Widowed in 1954, she returned to Minneapolis, Kansas until she was employed in 1959 as Research Assistant to Dr. R. C. Moore of the Treatise on Invertebrate Paleontology for the United States Geological Survey at KU.

In 1977 she married Claude F. Martin of Pratt, Kansas and Houston, Texas. They were employed with Shell Oil and Getty Oil in Houston until retirement. Their retirement home property was their pride and joy.

Lavon was preceded in death by her husband J. D. McCormick; her husband Claude F. Martin; her sister Kerma L. Bremerman; and her daughter Carey A. McCormick.

Survivors include her daughter, Donna C. McCormick and her husband Gregory Sims of Lawrence, Kansas; her step-son Michael Martin and his wife Vangie of Kerrville; her step-daughter Claudia (Martin) Baird of Weatherford, Texas; her brother-in-law Jack Bremerman of Minneapolis, Kansas; and three nieces Lee Ann (Bremerman) DuVall of Franklin, Tennessee, Susan (Bremerman) Adkins of Minneapolis, Kansas, and Poppe Marsha (McCormick) Weaver of Tulsa, Oklahoma.

Graveside services will be at 2:00 P.M., Thursday, October 13 at Highland Cemetery, Minneapolis. There will be no visitation.