03/10/2023
Services for Miss Martha Jean Harding Alls will be tomorrow.
Martha Jean Harding Alls, 81, of Murray, Kentucky, died Wednesday, March 1, 2023, at TriStar Skyline Medical Center in Nashville, Tennessee.
She was born Sept. 28, 1941, in Washington, D.C, to Joe Thomas Harding and Clara M. Turner Harding.
She worked as the secretary for Seventh and Poplar Church of Christ and was the owner and operator of the Bookmark and Game Day in Murray. She was an advocate for Freed-Hardeman University in Henderson, Tennessee, where she was an associate for more than 50 years. She served in many positions with the Ladies Associates at Freed-Hardman including president which she served for a total of 10 years; 1978-1980, 1986-1988, 1998-2002, 2008-2010. In addition, she was a member of New Concord Church of Christ, an active member of the Murray Main Street, Soup for the Soul, and the Caribbean Missions from 1968-2009.
In addition to her parents, she was preceded in death by her husband, Willard Alls; one son, Joe Mark Alls; one granddaughter, April Alls Beck; and one sister, Clara Jo Maupin.
Mrs. Alls is survived by a daughter-in-law, Selena Alls of Haleyville, Alabama; one granddaughter, Mary Catherine Alls McDonald and husband Lewis of Athens, Alabama; three great-grandchildren, Callie Rose Beck of Haleyville, and Lewis Welch McDonald Jr. and Catherine Rose McDonald, both of Athens; and many friends she chose as family, Ira, Jennifer, Alathea, Cheyenne, Cadence, and Rayleigh Sellars, all of Puryear, Tennessee, and Russ and Linda Crosswhite of Murray.
The funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, March 11, 2023, at the J.H. Churchill Funeral Home & Cremation Services with Dr. Milton Sewell, Charles Cates and Russ Crosswhite officiating.
Congregational singing will be led by Patrick Marble. Burial will follow in Murray City Cemetery. Visitation will be from 9-11 a.m. Saturday, March 11, 2023, at the funeral home.
Expressions of sympathy may be made to Freed-Hardeman Associates, 158 East Main St., Henderson, TN 38340, or to the Northwest Shoals Community College (NW-SCC Foundation), Alls Family Memorial, PO Box 2390, Muscle Shoals, AL 35662.
Online condolences may be left at www.thejhchurchillfuneralhome.com.
The J.H. Churchill Funeral Home & Cremation Services is in charge of arrangements.
