Bellona "Lonni" Martin

Bel­lona “Lonni” Mar­tin, age 52, of Mount Gilead, passed away early Mon­day morn­ing, Octo­ber 8, 2012, at St. Ann’s Hos­pi­tal in West­er­ville fol­low­ing a three year bat­tle with cancer.

On Novem­ber 24, 1959, Lonni was born in Bit­burg, Ger­many, the daugh­ter of Wil­helmina “Mickey” De Looy Jones and the late John David “Jack” Jones. In 1976 she grad­u­ated from the Upper Hay­ford Amer­i­can­ized School in England.

Lonni was a long time mem­ber of the Har­mony United Methodist Church and recently had been attend­ing the Ohio House Church.

For many years, Lonni worked in pol­icy ser­vices and the Ohio FAIR Plan in Colum­bus. Every day she loved going to her job.

Lonni had a great appre­ci­a­tion for the out­doors. She enjoyed going to ball games, whether it was to see the Colum­bus Clip­pers or to watch her own chil­dren play. The porch swing at her home was one of her favorite places to sit and reflect, along with work­ing in her gar­den. She loved lis­ten­ing to music too, espe­cially her favorite band, Journey.

Fam­ily meant every­thing to Lonni. She was “Super Mom,” rais­ing three chil­dren and pro­vid­ing a lov­ing and car­ing home for each of them. She felt so hon­ored and blessed to have the oppor­tu­nity to see all of her chil­dren grad­u­ate and to get to meet and spend time with her only grandchild.

Even though she was bat­tling her own ill­ness, Lonni always found time to give encour­age­ment to oth­ers. All it took was her smile and laugh to light up any room.

Lonni will be dearly missed by her three chil­dren: Christo­pher Rice of Sun­bury, Jared Mar­tin of Mount Gilead, Saman­tha (Andrew) Danser of Sun­bury; her grand­son, Rian Danser and another grand­child on the way; her mother, Mickey, of Char­lotte, NC; three broth­ers: David Jones of Lex­ing­ton, Todd (Shan­non) Jones of Spokane, WA, Scott (Lucy) Jones of Mount Gilead; and numer­ous nieces and nephews.

Her fam­ily will greet friends from 1 – 2 p.m. on Sat­ur­day, Octo­ber 13, 2012, at the Sny­der Funeral Home, Craven Chapel, 67 N. Main St., Mount Gilead. Ser­vices cel­e­brat­ing her life will be held imme­di­ately fol­low­ing at 2:00 p.m. with Pas­tor Jean­nie Win­ters and Pas­tor Ron Ellyson offi­ci­at­ing. Bur­ial will fol­low in Maple Grove Ceme­tery in Chesterville.

In lieu of flow­ers, memo­r­ial con­tri­bu­tions may be made to her fam­ily to assist her three children.

Sny­der Funeral Homes of Mount Gilead is hon­ored to have been cho­sen to serve Lonni’s fam­ily and your pri­vate con­do­lences may be expressed to them online by vis­it­ing www.snyderfuneralhomes.com.

Posted by Rob Hamilton on Oct 8 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.