PERRYVILLE -- Visitation is planned today from 2-9 p.m. at the Miller Family Funeral Home in Perryville for Augusta Anna Martens, 79, of Perryville.
She died Friday, May 20, 1994, at the Perry County Hospital in Perryville.
The funeral mass will be held Monday, at 10 a.m., at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Perryville, with the Rev. Kevin Fausz officiating. Burial will be in the Mt. Hope Cemetery at Perryville.
She was born in Belgique on Dec. 5, 1914, to August and Caroline Hoog Martens. She is survived by two brothers, Leo Martens of Perryville and Joseph Martens of St. Marys; and one sister, Ida Essleman of Perryville.
She was preceded in death by one sister.
She was the housekeeper at the rectory at St. Catherine LaBoure Catholic Church in Sappington, and a member of the Ladies of Charity at St. Vincent de Paul Catholic Church in Perryville.
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