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Wilma Marie Martin Sexton, a seventh-generation Texan, passed away April 11, 2024, at the age of 81 in Glen Rose, Texas. She was born in Lufkin, Texas, on March 9, 1943, to Lloyd C. and Wilma Lee Shepard Martin. When she was 9 years old, the family moved to Memphis, Texas, where she enjoyed the early springtime of her life, graduated high school and was married to Jim Sexton in 1960. The newlyweds moved to Canyon, Texas, where Jim was a student at West Texas State College. Wilma worked at an Amarillo, Texas bank and took college courses from time to time. In 1965, Jim graduated and commenced a bank examination career, and the couple moved to Fort Worth,Texas, their first post of duty. It was in Fort Worth that their first daughter, Sheryl, was born in 1969. Their second daughter, Carole, was born in Richardson, Texas in 1971. Over the following years, the family moved to Germantown, Tenn., Cherry Hill, N.J., Herndon, Va. and Georgetown, Texas. Wilma and Jim then returned to Virginia for a brief period and, finally, to retirement in Pecan Plantation in Granbury, Texas in 2000.