Extracts from obituary in The Ithaca Journal for Mrs. Martha Warren Hertel

"Martha Warren Hertel, 88 died at her home in Kendal of Ithaca on Monday June 7,2004. Martha Hertel was born October 8, 1915 in Ithaca, NY. She received her bachelor's degree in Home Economics Education from Cornell University in 1936 and taught the first Home Economics program of courses in the junior high school at Remsen, NY, from 1936-1937. ...

She married John Parker Hertel on August 6, 1938. Martha and John Hertel lived in the village of Forest Home, located in Ithaca, on a small farm where they raised and cared for five daughters and two sons. Together, Martha and John entertained university students from the United States and various international countries who were attending Cornell and living away from their families. ...

Martha was active as a Girl Scout leader in Forest Home and as an administrator with the Seven Lakes Girl Scout Council for twenty-five vears."