MARTIN L. LANGLEY

Martin L. Langley, 69, of Nesbit, Miss., died Saturday, Nov. 27, 1993, at Baptist DeSoto Hospital in Southaven, Miss.

He was born March 9, 1924, in Butler County. He was a 1943 graduate of Poplar Bluff High School and received national recognition in Future Farmers of America for public speaking, and received the American Farmer Degree in Kansas City. While living in Butler County he was active in Morgan Corner Church.

Langley attended the University of Missouri-Columbia and Purdue University in Lafayette, Ind. He was employed 45 years by Union Carbide and Ralston Purina. He was a veteran of the U.S. Navy.

He and the former Denise Brookshire were married in 1956 at Kansas City.

Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Cheryl Crawford of Memphis, Tenn., Vickie Taylor of Nesbit, Gail Ryan of Collierville, Tenn.; his mother, Edna Langley of Harviell; a sister, Shirley Hindman of Cape Girardeau, and two grandsons.

Funeral service was held Nov. 30 at Forrest Hills South Funeral Home in Memphis, with burial in Forrest Hills Cemetery.