Martha "Martie" Ann Bird

“HER CHILDREN ARISE AND CALL HER BLESSED; HER HUSBAND ALSO, AND HE PRAISES HER”

MARTHA “MARTIE” ANN BIRD, AGE 52, WAS CALLED TO HEAVEN AFTER A LONG ILLNESS ON FEBRUARY 11TH, 2020 IN RALEIGH GENERAL HOSPITAL. BORN JANUARY 4TH, 1968, AT LOCHGELLY, WV TO ARTHUR ELMER AND BETTY JEAN MCGINNIS-FITZWATER.

    THOSE WHO PROCEEDED HER IN DEATH ARE HER PARENTS, STEP-FATHER LUTHER REDDEN SR., BROTHERS: TEDDY WOLFE, LARRY AND ELMER FITZWATER, LUTHER REDDEN JR., ROGER, ROBERT, AND RONNIE REDDEN, AND GRANDSON TREVOR LESTER.

SHE WAS RAISED IN PINEY VIEW. MARTIE ATTENDED WOODROW WILSON HIGH SCHOOL. SHE ALSO GRADUATED COSMETOLOGY SCHOOL IN BECKLEY, AND LATER STUDIED CRIMINAL JUSTICE. HER FAITH WAS CHURCH OF GOD.

THOSE LEFT TO CARRY HER MEMORY ARE HUSBAND: JIM BIRD, CHILDREN: TABETHA FITZWATER OF BECKLEY, RANDALL MCKINNEY JR AND HIS WIFE BRANDY OF BEAVER, JAMES BIRD II AND HIS WIFE DANNI OF OAK HILL, AND JONTHAN BIRD OF PROSPERITY. GRANDCHILDREN: KYNDLE, TRINITY, TARYN, TRENTON, TRISTON, AUBREY, RYLEIGH, JAMES III, ALAYA, AND AVA. BROTHER WAYNE FITZWATER AND HIS WIFE KATHI. SISTERS: CAROL CAMPBELL AND HER SIGNIFICANT OTHER KARL MILLER, BECKY BALL, MARY FARMER AND HER HUSBAND BOBBY, ROBIN REDDEN, AND HELEN AND HER HUSBAND RAYMOND BURGESS. SEVERAL NIECES AND NEPHEWS. TWO SISTER-IN-LAW MELISSA REDDEN AND LUCY REDDEN, AND FAMILY FRIEND JANIE COLE-LOUGH

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