Martha W. Kelley

Family graveside services for Martha Kelley, 89, Clinton resident will be held Monday, July 20, 2020 in the Parkersburg Cemetery, under the direction of the Kiesau-Lee Funeral Home. Martha W. Kelley was born December 9, 1930 to John F. Wolf and Sophia Dorothy (Reinschmiedt) Wolf in Bessie, Oklahoma and passed away Friday, July 17, 2020 in the Clinton Alliance Health Hospital. Martha was raised in Washita County where she attended Guy School. She later transferred to Clinton and graduated in 1948. She married J.M. Kelley October 8, 1949 in Cordell, Oklahoma. They made their first home in Cordell and they later moved to Clinton. She was employed at the Holiday Inn in the housekeeping department as well as working in the Kellwood Factory as a supervisor in the Drapery Department. She was a charter and longtime active member of the Custer Ave. Baptist Church. She served as Sunday School Secretary for several years. She was an accomplished seamstress and enjoyed making quilts and had a large thimble collection. She enjoyed working in her garden, growing vegetables and canning her harvest and was a wonderful cook. She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, great-granddaughter, Hailey Serfoss; two sisters, Lydia Godfrey and Marie Goeringer; two brothers, Richard “Doc” Wolf and E.J. Wolf. She is survived by two daughters, Jody Serfoss and husband, Rod, and Londi Coble, all of Clinton; two sons, Rodney Kelley and wife, Cheryl, Clinton and Randy Kelley and Frieda Collins, Butler; two sisters, Betty Goss and husband, Bob, Clinton and Dorothy Boulton, Gore, OK. She is also survived by five grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren and one great-great grandchild.