More detail on this person: John Martin "Marty"
Pittman left this world to be with the Lord, Dec.
5, 2012. He passed peacefully at his home near
Hamilton, Texas, with his family at his side.
Marty was born Jan. 29, 1949, to Claudine
Yarbrough Pittman, in Waxahachie, Texas, and
moved with his family to Aurora, Colo. in 1963,
where he graduated from high school. Marty loved
the outdoors and had an early love of flying.
Marty was a veteran of the U.S. Army and served
his country as a helicopter pilot in Vietnam, from
1970-71. After his military service, Marty
fulfilled his dream of moving to Alaska
(Fairbanks) in 1975, where he stayed for 35 years,
working on the trans-Alaska oil pipeline
construction and many other jobs on the North
Slope and on the Exxon Valdez oil spill at the Sea
Otter Rescue Mission in Seward. Marty was
preceded in death by his mother, Claudine Bitter;
and his father, Frank. He is survived by his
sister, Dana Gilbert (Robert), of Hamilton, Texas;
sister, Cheryl Martinez (Roy), of Lakewood, Colo.;
brother, Joe (Jerri), of Aurora, Colo. brother,
Frank, of Loveland, Colo.; and three nephews and
two nieces.
John Martin "Marty" Pittman left this world to be
with the Lord, Dec. 5, 2012. He passed peacefully
at his home near Hamilton, Texas, with his family
at his side.
Published in Daily News-Miner on January 20, 2013
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