Patricia Ann (Hobbs) Martin

Patricia Ann Martin, 89, of Overbrook, KS passed away Thursday, January 16, 2025 at the Lawrence Memorial Hospital in Lawrence, KS.  She was born August 15, 1935 in Barada, NE, the daughter of Kenneth Vernon Hobbs and Iva (Lewis) Hobbs. 

She married Bob Sowers in 1950.  They later divorced.  She married Walter Gerald Martin on July 26, 1971.  They shared over 48 wonderful years before his passing on December 15, 2019.

Pat was a farmwife who loved to cook and enjoyed raising her children. She took great pride taking care of her lawn, decorating for Christmas, and would always make sure her cookie jar was full. She will be remembered as a humble, caring, remarkably great woman.

Pat took great pride in her community and served it in many ways. She volunteered as a Den Mother for the Cub Scouts and volunteered at Help House. She also served on the Overbrook Pride committee, and you’d often see her driving a lawn mower towing a trailer full of water containers so that she could care for the flowers along Overbrook’s Main Street. For this and her other tireless efforts to pay it forward, she was honored to have part of Overbrook’s main street renamed “Pat Martin Boulevard.”

Pat was a business owner and helped operate two enterprises in downtown Overbrook - Martin Service and W&W Laundromat. She was a tireless worker whose experience included work at Shirley’s Café and O’Bryhim’s Thriftway in Overbrook. She was a school bus driver, an assistant for Dr. Ruble, and worked in the Café at the Overbrook Sale Barn.  She cleaned for the Overbrook Post Office, First Security Bank and Overbrook Library, and delivered papers for The Topeka Capital Journal. 

Pat was a member of the Overbrook United Methodist Church. She was preceded in death by her parents, Kenneth and Iva Hobbs; husband, Walt Martin; brother, Rex Hobbs; and a granddaughter, Jaylee Sowers. 

Surviving family includes, brother, Jack Hobbs of Halstead, KS; sister, Jean Barbour of Sand Springs, OK; six sons, Danny Sowers of Gate, OK, Lloyd Sowers and wife, Kathy of Burlingame, KS, Alva Sowers and wife, Donna of Overbrook, KS, David Sowers and wife, Cathy of Overbrook, KS, Alan Martin and wife, Lucinda of Overland Park, KS, and Stuart Martin and wife, Susan of Omaha, NE; two daughters, Peggy Smith and her husband, Steven of Overbrook, KS and Julia Downs of Wichita, KS; and many grandchildren; great-grandchildren; and great-great grandchildren. 

A Memorial Service will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, January 22, 2025 at the Overbrook United Methodist Church, 1005 Maple Street, Overbrook, KS 66524.  The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, January 21 at the Overbrook United Methodist Church.  Memorial contributions may be made to Help House and sent in care to the Lamb-Roberts-Price Funeral Home, P.O. Box 268, Overbrook, KS 66524.  Condolences may be sent to the family through www.lamb-roberts.com.  

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