Martha F. Knox

Martha F. “Aunt Martha” Knox, 87, of 12th Street, died at 8:40 p.m. Monday, July 11, 2016, at Our Hospice of South Central Indiana Inpatient Facility. Martha was born April 26, 1929, in Dekalb County, Tennessee, the daughter of Wilson Wesley and Elsie Ann Paris Blackburn. She married Hugh Wilson Knox December 12, 1947. Aunt Martha was a member of Elizabethtown United Methodist Church for many years. She enjoyed going on vacations with Rita and Tilford Hoover, as well as collecting cardinals and watching birds. Pallbearers will be Matt Buzzard, Chris Buzzard, Cody McCloud, Reece Blackburn, Gary Cheek, Wendell Huff, Dalton Clark and Tilford Hoover. Survivors include her daughter, Sandra Kay Buzzard of Columbus; grandchildren, Matthew Ryan Buzzard and Christopher Knox Buzzard; and a niece, Katrina Burkett. She was preceded in death by her parents; husband, Hugh, May 8, 2000; sister, Norma Mullins, in 1999; an infant sister, Georgia B. Blackburn; a stepbrother, Ernest Vantrease; and a stepsister, Edith Talley.