Martin E. Sanders

Published 12:00 am Saturday, November 20, 2010

JONESBORO, Ark. — Martin E. Sanders, 50, of Jonesboro, formerly of Brownsville, Ky., died Nov. 16, 2010, of injuries suffered in an automobile accident near Marked Tree, Ark.

The Cleveland, Ohio, native was president of Sanders Services Inc., an active ordained Baptist minister and a member of Windover Baptist Church and Jonesboro Chamber of Commerce and the Dodge Viper Club of America. He was a son of Weldon Sanders of Jonesboro, who survives, and the late Mary Ostanek Sanders and the husband of the late Brenda Kay Sanders.

Funeral is at 10 a.m. today at Emerson Funeral Home, with graveside memorial service at 2 p.m. Sunday at New Home Cemetery in Brownsville, Ky.

Survivors include his wife, Jennifer Sanders; five sons, Jeremiah Sanders and his wife, Brandi, Benjamin Sanders, Preston Dennis, Austin Dennis and Justin Carter, all of Jonesboro; a brother, Cy Sanders and his wife, Pam, of Houston; and two grandchildren, Riley and Kylar Lumpkin.