October 8, 2023, 94, Goldsboro —
Addie Marie Martin Peedin, 94, or better known as “Mayor of Raynortown”, went to her Heavenly home Sunday, October 8, 2023.
The funeral service will be Wednesday, October 11, 2023, at 2 p.m. in the chapel of Howell Funeral Home & Crematory in Goldsboro with Reverend Dennis Pollock and Pastor Kelley Buffalo officiating. Burial will follow at Progressive Church Cemetery in Princeton. The family will greet friends following the service at the cemetery.
Marie was born in Johnston County on March 2, 1929, to the late Emmitt and Sallie Holloman Martin. She was a faithful member of Antioch Presbyterian Church for over 50 years. She loved working in her garden and spending time outdoors in her yard planting and looking after her beautiful flowers. She hugged everyone she knew and didn’t know a stranger. She loved her Lord and Savior Jesus Christ most of all. Marie was a loving wife and mama to Donnie and Vickie. She was always so proud of her children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Marie loved them with all her heart. She always prayed for her entire family “Be safe, well and happy. Let the Lord be your Shepherd and you won’t have anything to worry you.” One of her last sayings to Vickie was “The Lord will give you the strength to get through.”
She is survived by her devoted daughter, Vickie Peedin Lancaster, and husband, Mike of Princeton whom she loved like a son; one brother, Harold Martin and wife, Linda of Princeton; two sisters, Rosa Lee Holt of Princeton and Judy Rowe of Kenly; her daughter-in-law, Gwen Anderson and husband, Ronnie of Goldsboro; two sisters-in-law, Grace Martin of Princeton and Nellie Faye Martin of Princeton; three grandchildren, Pastor Michael Peedin and wife, Sherri, Michelle Peedin Adams and husband, Jeremy and Matthew Peedin and wife, Karen and ten great-grandchildren.
In addition to her parents, Marie was preceded in death by her husband, Earl Leon Peedin; her son, Donnie Earl Peedin; brothers, Raymond Martin, Ransom Martin, Donald Ray “Duck” Martin, Edward Martin and Leslie Martin and one sister, Annie Pearl Gurley.
The family is in the care of Howell Funeral Home & Crematory in Goldsboro.
