This is one of the saddest pieces I have read. Just remember when you’re feeling awful there is ALWAYS someone who is having a worse day. I do not know this family but they will be in my heart. There is information about making a donation below if you are so moved.
By Kevin Mayhood Saturday, September 6, 2008 7:39 PM THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
Marty Martin and Jody Carrico-Martin took a Caribbean cruise with his 6-year-old son, Kyle, last month.
“I thought it would be my last vacation with them,” Carrico-Martin said. Carrico-Martin, who turns 36 on Monday, has advanced breast cancer. “I’m actually the one that was supposed to go first.”
Instead, her husband, a Franklin County deputy sheriff, died yesterday as he was being rushed to Grant Medical Center following an early-morning crash on I-71 on the South Side. Martin, 35, had been working undercover with Deputy Luke Holt when the sport-utility vehicle Holt was driving apparently hydroplaned on the wet pavement, hit a culvert and flipped about 12:30 a.m., investigators said.
Carrico-Martin had cancer, and it already had spread, when she met Martin five years ago. She had a dog day-care center and Martin, who trained police dogs, came to her business to give a demonstration. They hit it off.
They knew her time was limited when they married, on Sept. 18, 2004.
They bought what they called a “hobby farm,” 7 acres south of Columbus where they raise goats and chickens, organic fruits and vegetables and their beloved dogs - Dutch shepherds and Belgian malinois that Martin trained for police work and sport.
“He’s been helping me get through the last five years,” Carrico-Martin said yesterday. She’s been through various forms of chemotherapy. “My health is fair but deteriorating.”
“We always had an understanding,” she said. “He was in dangerous police work, and my health wasn’t too good. We took advantage of every day. “But I actually didn’t expect him to go first.”
In lieu of flowers contributions may directed to the Marty M. Martin Memorial c/o CME Federal Credit Unit, 365 S. 4th St., Columbus OH 43215 or cmefcu.org
This is one of the saddest pieces I have read. Just remember when you’re feeling awful there is ALWAYS someone who is having a worse day. I do not know this family but they will be in my heart. There is information about making a donation below if you are so moved.
In lieu of flowers contributions may directed to the Marty M. Martin Memorial c/o CME Federal Credit Unit, 365 S. 4th St., Columbus OH 43215 or cmefcu.org