Becoming Catholic at 98: World War II veteran joins the Church

A World War II Army veteran, Raymond “Ray” Martin Sr., has joined the Catholic Church at 98 years old.Before finding his way to the Church in Tuscan, Arizona, Martin served in Okinawa, Japan, and in the Philippines; he then spent 27 years as a police officer in Illinois.Martin’s connection to Catholicism began with his late wife, Ann Marie.When Deacon Jacinto “Jack” Trevino, a hospice chaplain and parochial associate at St. Elizabeth Ann Seton in the Diocese of Tuscan, met with…