Hope Wingate Martin died Friday, Nov. 13. The daughter of F. Camet Wingate and Hannah Kimble Wingate, Hope was born on Oct. 8, 1940, in West Grove, Pennsylvania. She was a member of Chadds Ford Baptist Church and Chatham Methodist Church. Hope graduated with honors from Avon Grove High School in 1958 and Bloomsburg University in 1962 and was a passionate, devoted high school business education teacher at Mt. Pleasant Senior High School, Wilmington; Oakcrest High School, Egg Harbor, N.J.; Naha Air Base, Japan; and A.I. duPont High School in Wilmington. She also served in positions with duPont at Chestnut Run, Larmore & Scarlett in Kennett Square, and as office manager for HRA Services, Inc., in Chadds Ford.
Hope’s hallmarks were her quietness, bright blue eyes, and gentle, radiant smile. She was a much beloved wife, mother and grandmother whose family were her joy and reason for being. Hope loved people and the outdoors, planting garden, flowers, and trees. She eagerly participated in parent and support organizations at Upland Country Day School and Tatnall School and was an avid and regular cheerleader at hockey and lacrosse games and skating events. She is a gentle Christian who loved the Lord and found great friendship and joy in her faith and her brothers and sisters in Christ.
Hope is survived by her husband of fifty-two years David W. Martin, her daughter Jennifer Singer and her husband Rand, her son Jonathan Martin and his wife Rachael, and grandchildren Lain and Teryn Singer and Jonathan Jr. and Alyssa Martin.
Hope leaves the earth and you with these words: “Let not your heart be troubled: ye believe in God, believe also in me. In my Father’s house are many mansions: if it were not so I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there ye may be also. And whither I go ye know, and the way ye know.”
You are invited to visit with Hope’s family and friends from noon to 1 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 19, , at Chadds Ford Baptist Church, 415 Baltimore Pike, Chadds Ford, PA, 19317. Her funeral service will follow. Interment will be in London Grove Friends Cemetery. Contributions in her memory may be made to Chadds Ford Baptist Church, P.O. Box 322, Chadds Ford, PA 19317 or American Parkinson Disease Association, 135 Parkinson Avenue, Staten Island, NY 10305-1425. Arrangements are being handled by the Kuzo & Grieco Funeral Home Inc. (610-444-4116) of Kennett Square. To view her online tribute and to share a memory with her family, please visit www.griecocares.com
(No Ratings Yet)
Loading...
Comments