Martha R.

Lunsford

HMCS/USN/USNR (E-8) Martha R. Lunsford, age 83, entered into eternal rest January 1, 2025 at Harlingen Medical Center due to a sudden illness. Born July 21, 1941 in Great Bend, Kansas to loving parents Nicholas P. and Victoria D. (nee Kreutzer) Birzer. She was one of four children from that union. Immediately after her high school graduation she enlisted in the US Navy and served her country proudly during the Vietnam War Era. She was honorably discharged. After her children got older, she enlisted in the US Naval Reserves, achieving the rank of Senior Chief Hospital Corpsman.  In her professional career, she worked within the healthcare field, in various places throughout the Rio Grande Valley, eventually attaining her nursing degree and becoming a Registered Nurse.  Her last position was as a nurse at Brownsville Medical Center, until she retired.

She is preceded in death by her parents and three brothers, Joe, Austin, and Clem Birzer.

Martha leaves to cherish her beautiful memory her two sons, William C. Lunsford III, Nicholas Robert Lunsford, granddaughters Dena Lunsford and Charlisa Martin, and a sister-in-law, Judy Birzer.

Visitation will be held on Thursday January 16, 2025 from 9 am to 12:30 pm at Trinity at Harrison Funeral Home Chapel of the Holy Spirit with Graveside Service to begin at 2:00 pm at the Rio Grande Valley State Veterans Cemetery, Mission, TX with full military honors under the auspices of the American Legion Post 205.