{"id":444736,"date":"2026-09-23T03:36:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444736\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T03:36:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T03:36:17","slug":"william-ernest-martin-jr-feb-3-1943-sept-17-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/444736\/","title":{"rendered":"William Ernest Martin Jr. &#8211; Feb. 3, 1943 \u2013 Sept. 17, 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of William \u201cBill\u201d Ernest Martin, Jr. age 83 at his home in Arlington, on Sept. 17, 2026. He was born Feb. 8,1943, in Cameron, West Virginia, to William Ernest Martin, Sr. And Lola Elaine Stanborn-Martin. He graduated from college with a Master\u2019s degree in business and a bachelor\u2019s in science. He enjoyed canoeing and kayaking and in his younger years, bowling and skating. In addition to his parents, he was preceeded in death by a sister Barbara Ray Martin, brother, James Ray, and a sister Madlynn. Bill is survived by his wife Cecile Martin of 37 years, the love of his life, who he married Nov. 26, 1989. He is also survived by three daughters, from a previous marriage, Elaine and husband Joe King, Deborah Martin and Fianc\u00e9 John Deblock, and Lorena and husband Joe Gaebler. In addition to his wife and daughters he is survived by two step sons, Andy Christensen and wife Andrea, Jeff Christensen and wife Amanda, and numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. And special aunt Joan Kuitinz of Sinton, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>View more details from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dignitymemorial.com\/obituaries\/arlington-tx\/william-martin-13046038\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">funeral home site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fort Worth Report is <a href=\"https:\/\/fortworthreport.org\/2024\/08\/25\/fort-worth-report-achieves-global-trust-certification-heres-what-it-means-for-our-community\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">certified by the Journalism Trust Initiative<\/a> for adhering to standards for ethical journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of William \u201cBill\u201d Ernest Martin, Jr. age 83&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":444737,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117,2070,3191],"class_list":["post-444736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news","tag-obituary","tag-syndication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=444736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/444736\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=444736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=444736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=444736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}