Funeral service set for Thursday.
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UPPER FREEHOLD — Martha M. Sexton, 71, died Friday, March 2, at CentraState Medical Center, Freehold.
Born in Upper Freehold, she lived in Cream Ridge most of her life.
She enjoyed cooking.
Sister of the late Edward, Richard and Joan Johnson, she is survived by her husband of 51 years, Kenneth O. Sexton; three daughters, Joan Jones of Allentown, Christine Sexton of Goldsboro, N.C., and Janet Sexton of Cream Ridge; two brothers, Kenneth Johnson of Delran and Randall Johnson of Trenton; five sisters, Pluma "Tootie" Polhemus of Woodstock, Va., Betty Stout and Constance Stout of Hightstown, Barbara Donovan of New Egypt and Shirley Bowers of Lake Charles, Ala.; two grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
Funeral will be 11 a.m. Thursday at Peppler Funeral Home, 114 S. Main St., Allentown, with the Rev. Horace M. Frantz officiating.
Burial will be in Emley’s Hill Cemetery, Cream Ridge.
Memorial contributions may be made to New Egypt First Aid Squad, P.O. Box 111, New Egypt, N.J. 08553; or American Heart Association, 2550 Route 1, North Brunswick, N.J. 08902.