Connie Sue Martin
June 30, 1949 - Feb. 9, 2025
Born Connie Sue Shaffer June 30, 1949 in Hillsboro, Ohio to Wilbur Pierce Shaffer and Ida Mae Shaffer, the middle child between older sister Jeannie (Foster), of Tampa, FL and younger brother Michael Pierce Shaffer, now deceased.
Connie grew up in Wilmington, Ohio and graduated from Wilmington High School in 1967. She attended Ohio University in Athens, Ohio where she resided in the German House and graduated in 1971 with a BA in English and Comparative Literature.
In 1971 Connie married Mulford (Ford) Martin and relocated to Princeton NJ, where she worked until 1976 as a manuscript reader and editor at Princeton University Press.
Connie and Ford then relocated to the California Bay Area, where she worked as a book editor at Wadsworth Publishing in Belmont, Ca, and met her lifelong friend Kate Michels.
Relocating in 1979 to the Seattle area, Connie worked for University of Washington Press on the production side of book publishing followed by several years at Microsoft Corp. where she honed her layout, graphics and editing skills publishing computer manuals. A voracious reader, Connie has read thousands of books and always viewed reading as one of the highest forms of recreation.
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