Great Aunt Anna Earl Martin

Seated is my Grandfather Robert Clark Earl with his sisters. 

As a boy of about ten years of age it is hard to comprehend the depth of your great Aunt but I knew it was a big deal when Aunt Anna came to visit. My grandma Hazel Marett Earl always emphasized the importance of education. She also encouraged me to pursue music. Aunt Anna had gone to Oberlin College and had studied music and was considered like the scholar of the family. 

Oberlin Conservatory of Music as advertised in 1920. 

My mother, Edna Earl Smith (not the Edna above that's her Aunt) talked about how she was working on mathematical forms. She would come to hear me play the piano. I remember her clear penetrating eyes behind reading glasses attached with a strap. I can remember her face similar to the photo even though she was now like 65. Aunt Anna carried the air of a cultural highly refined women prefers beyond my grasp at the time. 

Her legacy continued when my sister Anna probably named after her studied poetry at College.  My sister, Alice Smith would go to Oberlin College also. 

It appears her daughter Alice Martin followed in  her footsteps. 

Alice Martin Kopp died on October 31, 2010,  She was born in Sikeston, MO, to Theodore and Anna Earl Martin in 1931. She graduated from the University of Missouri where she was a member of Delta Delta Delta sorority and Phi Beta Kappa honorary fraternity. After college she taught piano and violin at a junior college and studied for a year at L'Ecole de Musique in Paris, France. In 1955 she married William Louis Kopp, whom she met at the Interlochen Arts Camp in northern Michigan in 1948. They lived in Bavaria, Germany, Ann Arbor, MI, Madison, WI, and Jackson, MS. She is survived by her husband; son, Thomas (Rebecca); grandsons, Thomas, Jr., Oliver, and Louis of Spring, TX; son, Douglas (Paula); granddaughters, Elizabeth, Anna, and Jennifer of Madison, WI; brother, Earl Martin of Bloomington, IN; and nieces, Deborah and Terri Martin. Her passions included computers, music, swimming, conservative politics, and her offspring. The family is planning a private memorial service. Published in Clarion Ledger on Nov. 5, 2010 Read Less - See more at: http://m.legacy.com/obituaries/clarionledger/obituary.aspx?n=alice-martin-kopp&pid=146423479&referrer=0&preview=false#sthash.GPYfilWn.dpuf