Martha was a person of great faith -- faith she leaned upon when she experienced suffering. She was determinedly independent and brave. 

Martha was born in 1942 and was the eldest of five children born to Frank and Mary Belle Kokesh. 
She attended the University of Texas at Austin and studied English Literature. 
She married Samuel Levine in 1963, and her son, Kimberly Nathan, was born in 1964. Her daughter, Mary Beth, was born in 1966. 
She pursued a Master's degree while her children were infants. 
She taught children and worked at UTMB at Galveston in Medical Education. She also taught writing at 
Later, she earned a doctorate in Rhetoric and Composition and taught college-level writing in Missouri. More recently, she  attended the Seminary of the Southwest in pursuit of further ways to serve her Lord and God. 
After some years in Arizona, she moved to be with her daughter's family in Cedar Park, Texas. 

Martha's daughter, Mary Beth, was by her side as she passed from this life into the next. 

Gather Us In  by Marty Haugen

Here in this place new light is streaming
Now is the darkness vanished away
See in this space our fears and our dreamings
Brought here to you in the light of this day
Gather us in, the lost and forsaken
Gather us in, the blind and the lame
Call to us now and we shall awaken
We shall arise at the sound of our name
We are the young, our lives are a mystery
We are the old who yearn for your face
We have been sung throughout all of history
Called to be light to the whole human race
Gather us in, the rich and the haughty
Gather us in, the proud and the strong
Give us a heart so meek and so lowly
Give us the courage to enter the song
Here we will take the wine and the water
Here we will take the bread of new birth
Here you shall call your sons and your daughters
Call us anew to be salt for the earth
Give us to drink the wine of compassion
Give us to eat the bread that is you
Nourish us well and teach us to fashion
Lives that are holy and hearts that are true
Not in the dark of buildings confining
Not in some heaven light years away
But here in this place the new light is shining
Now is the kingdom, now is the day
Gather us in and hold us forever
Gather us in and make us your own
Gather us in, all peoples together
Fire of love in our flesh and our bones
Fire of love in our flesh and our bones