Mrs. Martha Alice Harbin Nicholson Benton, age 76 of Winfield passed away on Friday, January 28, 2022 in the DCH Fayette Medical Center.

Mrs. Benton was born in Winfield, Alabama on October 19, 1945 to Louis and Gladys Harbin. She was a lifetime member of the Zion Missionary Baptist Church and a graduate of the Alabama Institute for the Deaf and Blind in Talladega, AL. She worked in various sewing plants and cafés in the Marion County area for many years and owned/operated the Bobo Store. Mrs. Benton loved her Lord and enjoyed telling everyone she met about Him.

Martha is survived by her daughter, Angela Parker, (David), sons, Gaylon Nicholson and Tony Nicholson (Donna), grandchildren, Jessica Barnes,(Danial), Kelli Sullivan (fiancé, Lee Johnson), Ron Nicholson (Tabatha), Drew Nicholson (Cassidy), Paige Phillips (Patrick), Mike Connell (Holly), Jason Cagle (Maudie) and, Renne Pendley, great grandchildren, Amelia Thornton, Isaac, Tyson and Will Barnes, Olivia and Madi Rose Tidwell, Sophie and Natalie Tucker, William and Alex Nicholson, Angie Kohlhaas (Chris), Emily and James Parrish, Cooper Vickery, Keylee Bridgeman, Jax and Gunner Phillips, Braxton, Braylon, Makayla Connell, her sister, Lola Minor, nieces, Tammy Jones, Sondra D’Ambrose, nephew Jonathon Harbin, the Benton family, her church family and a host of other family and close friends. She was preceded in death by her husband, James Walter Benton, grandson, Stephen Michael Sullivan, her parents, Louis and Gladys Whitehead Harbin, brother, Lemmie Harbin a nephew, Eric Harbin and the father of her children, David Earl Nicholson.

Funeral service for Mrs. Benton will be held on Tuesday, February 1, 2022 at 2:00 p.m. from the Bowen Funeral Home Chapel with burial to follow in the Liberty Cemetery near Rock City. The visitation will be held on Tuesday from 1:00 p.m. until 2:00 p.m. service time at the funeral home.

Bowen Funeral Home serving the Nicholson-Benton family.