Martha Shelton, age 89, of Westover and Kirkwood by the River, passed away peacefully on July 26, 2023, at the Palliative Care and Comfort Center of UAB Hospital in Birmingham, Alabama. Martha graduated from Mortimer Jordan High School in 1951 and from Alabama College (Montevallo) in 1955, where she majored in Home Economics. Martha taught nutrition to nursing students at Duke University and worked in hospitals in North Carolina while Jack attended Duke Divinity School. Martha, with Jack, created and sustained a home where her sons felt safe, loved, and free to be themselves. In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations be made in Martha’s name to the ministry and work of First Presbyterian Church, Birmingham, www.fpcbham.org

Source: The Express Tribune August 04, 2023 08:29 UTC