Sun., June 20, 1999

My dad, Cleve Martin, is retired and makes his home in Topeka. He is known around this community as a hard worker in service of others. 

Always busy, he helps with bingo at the VFW two nights per week and drives at least once a week for the Red Cross. He can often be found serving coffee at Arab Shrine events or clearing dishes at Washburn University luncheons and dinners (for which he earns money for University United Methodist Church). 

He reserves some of his time for his first love, playing golf, for bowling and for having coffee at McDonalds with his retired buddies. But he can just as often be found driving friends and acquaintances to appointments, getting groceries for the homebound, and checking on the needs of the widowed wives of his brothers. 

And he always has time to take me, his only daughter, to breakfast on Sunday mornings. I'm glad to see Dad enjoying himself and am proud of the way he helps others. I send him my love on Father's Day 1999.