Born in Choctaw, Mississippi, United States
Ancestors 
Daughter of Samuel B Martin
and Daisy Caroline Collins
Sister of
Samuel B. Collins Jr.
Wife of
Tommie Abbie Tanksley
— married
[date unknown] in Attala or Choctaw County, MS
Descendants 
Mother of
Bill Tanksley and Robert B Tanksley
Died
at about age 76
in Hinds, Mississippi, United States
Profile last modified
| Created 18 Mar 2015
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Lovie was born in 1921. Lovie Martin ... She passed away in 1995.
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- Find a Grave, database and images (accessed 11 February 2021), memorial page for Lovie Beatrice Martin Tanksley (20 Jan 1919–1 Dec 1995), Find A Grave: Memorial #29377834, citing Salem United Methodist Church Cemetery, Tollison, Choctaw County, Mississippi, USA ; Maintained by Wilton Golson (contributor 46944807) .
- "United States Census, 1940," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/pal:/MM9.1.1/VYGS-B76 : accessed 19 March 2015), Louie Tanksley in household of Tommie Tanksley, Beat 4, Choctaw, Mississippi, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 10-11, sheet 4B, family 58, NARA digital publication T627 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012), roll 2014.
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She always bought a gift at Christmas for each family member even when the total got to the high twenties. It may not have been expensive but she gave it so you would know she thought enough of you to bother. She was preceded in death by her oldest son, William H. Tanksley and her husband, Tommie A. Tanksley. After their deaths she moved to Vicksburg, MS and lived with her daughter, Emily T. Cox and family. Another child Howard B. Tanksley and her Granddaughter, Tammie T. Brown lived nearby. Lovie suffered from benign tumors of the brain genetically connected to a woman's menstrual cycle. She began having severe pains in her head in the late 1980's and was diagnosed. She had a sister named Pat who died while some months pregnant with the same tumors while much younger. The pain in Grandma Tanksley's head became so severe and began to impair functions of her body so she elected to have surgery to remove some of the tumors. If my memory serves they were so wrapped around her spinal cord they couldn't get them and she remained on a respirator for some time after that until the family was told there would be no recovery and elected to remove the respirator. I hope that I have done justice to her story and my memories of her. I am sure there are many more things that could be added and I hope that some children and grandchildren will join to make this memorial to her worthwhile. In a nutshell I wished to convey that her family, home, and church were the important things in her life.