Margaret Martin Cole

Margaret M. Cole, 85, of Philpot, Kentucky died Wednesday, April 21, 2010 at Owensboro Medical Health System after living with Alzheimer's for many years. Margaret lived her life giving to her family and community as she believed Christ teaches us to do. She believed actions meant more than words. She had a dry sense of humor, spoke with compassion and conviction, and was always there to listen and to advise. She believed you were never too old to learn. She enjoyed having her family around her, working in her yard and travelling when she had the opportunity. She loved her family and was a wonderful wife, mother, mother-in-law and grandmother. She was a charter member of Masonville Baptist Church where she was a Sunday School teacher and also served as treasurer for many years. Margaret was active in the Republican Women's Organization on the local, state and national level, served on the board of The Arc of Owensboro, was a member of Masonville Homemakers, past board member of the YWCA, and worked alongside her late husband, Dr. Clarence Eugene Cole, in his dental practice. Margaret is also preceded in death by her parents, Charles and Nannie Leathers Martin, and her brothers, Charles Martin and James Martin.

Survivors include her children, Charles Joseph Cole of Owensboro, Margaret "Libby" Cambron and her husband Nick of Owensboro, Jeanne Cole and her husband Jonathan Ledsky of Chicago, IL, and Rebecca "Becky" Cole and her husband Michael Kanel of Madison, WI; grandchildren Jonathan Cambron and his wife Janie, Christopher Cambron, Clara Ledsky, Isabel Ledsky, Aaron Ledsky, Avery Kanel and William Kanel; great-granddaughter Savannah Cambron; sister Nancy Elizabeth Martin of Danville, KY; a nephew, James "Jim" Martin of Lexington, KY.; and a special friend and caregiver, Anna Bryant of Hartford, KY.

Services and burial will be private. Interment will be in Pleasant Grove Cemetery.

In lieu of flowers the family requests donation to the Opportunity Center Workshop, P.O. Box 1833, Owensboro, KY 42302; Sunrise Children's Services, 2720 Frederica Street, Owensboro, KY 42301; or to the Hospice of Western Kentucky, 3419 Wathens Crossing, Owensboro, KY 42301.