Jane Ann Garrette Martin

Jane Ann Garrette Martin of Chestertown, MD, died on September 29, 2022. She was 85 years old. Jane Ann was born in Huntington, WV, on October 8, 1936, the only child of Roderick Perry and Elizabeth Wilson Garrette and lived in Huntington until graduating from Marshall University in the class of 1958. After graduation, she moved to Baltimore, MD, to work as a teacher in Baltimore County. While teaching, she completed her Masters degree in Spanish over four summers at Middlebury College in Vermont. She worked at various schools in the Baltimore area including Parkville Jr./Sr. High School, Landsdowne High School as department chair, and Towson High School as both a teacher and department chair. In 1964, she married the late Fenton Lee Martin, Jr., and soon after, took some time off to raise their family. She then returned to the work force, initially starting and running the Math Lab at St. Paul’s School for Boys in Brooklandville and then teaching full-time at Franklin Junior High School in Reisterstown, Johnnycake Middle School, and then back to Landsdowne as a math instructor. Jane Ann and her family spent summers on Maryland’s Eastern Shore, first in Betterton and then Chestertown. While living in Baltimore, Jane Ann was an active member of St. David’s Episcopal Church, serving on the vestry, altar guild, music committee, and nursery school board. When Jane Ann and Fenton retired in 1999, they moved to Chestertown, MD, full time. During her retirement, she was a member of St. Paul’s Kent Church along with being on the altar guild, vestry, and a senior warden. Jane Ann was also a member of Chester River Yacht & Country Club, the Women’s Literary Club, and the Women’s League of Washington College. She served with the Salvation Army and later, the Good Neighbor Fund. She also was a founding member of the Samaritan Group. Jane Ann enjoyed cooking, reading, watching Jeopardy, embroidery, and traveling – especially to New Orleans and to see her grandchildren in Panama and Connecticut. She is survived by her children, Roderick Lee Martin and Elizabeth Martin Vallarino; their spouses, Elizabeth Smoley Martin and Juan Carlos Vallarino; and her grandchildren, Victoria Frances, Benjamin Garrette, Emily Elizabeth Martin and Mateo, Lucas and Jack Vallarino. Services will be held on Saturday, November 26, 2022 at St. Paul's Kent Church at 11:00 am. A reception will be held following the service at the Chester River Yacht and Country Club. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be made to St. Paul’s Kent Church at 7579 Sandy Bottom Rd, Chestertown, MD 21620 or to Episcopal Relief & Development at www.support.episcopalrelief.org.

Jane Ann Garrette Martin

October 8, 1936 - September 29, 2022