Martha Graves

Martha Jane Graves

Funeral services for Mrs. Martha J. (Holbert) Graves will be held at 11 a.m. Thursday, December 27, 2018, at Antioch Baptist Church with Dr. Bill Espy and Rev. Bill Rice officiating. Burial will follow in Antioch Cemetery. Visitation will be held Wednesday, December 26, 2018, from 4 until 7 p.m. at the church and on Thursday, from 10 a.m. until service time.

Mrs. Graves, age 86, passed away Friday, December 21, 2018, eight days before her 87th birthday.

Mrs. Graves was retired from Northside High School and was a member of Antioch Baptist Church. She was loving and devoted wife and mother.

She was preceded in death by her parents, W.E. Holbert and Tressie McMurry Holbert; brothers, Ernest Holbert, Bill Holbert.

She is survived by her husband of 57 years, Robert “Junior” Graves; children, Jennifer Stinson and husband Bruce, Daniel Graves, Jayne Ann Serrano and husband Leo, Glen Graves and wife Julie; brothers, Paul Holbert and wife Diane, Robert Holbert; sisters, Raymell Sisco, Genell Patterson; grandchildren, Adam Cherry, Jena Davis, Zach Serrano, Zeb Serrano, Delaney Graves; great-grandchild, Perrilyn Davis.

Pallbearers to serve are; Adam Cherry, Zach Serrano, Brian Hodge, Bob Blow, Steve Brown, and Jeff Patterson.