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Don Martin Hayter, Jr, 62, of Greenville, Texas passed away on June 2, 2023 after complications from the flu.
A sixth-generation Greenville resident, Martin was born May 21, 1961 to Joan Cameron Hayter and Don Martin Hayter, Sr. in Greenville, Texas. After Martin graduated from Greenville High School, Class '79, Martin went on to study music at California Institute of the Arts in Santa Clarita, California.
Following 13 years as a studio and touring trumpet player in Burbank, California, Martin returned to Greenville to concentrate on his wholesale company, providing accessories to clothing stores. During the past 25 years, Martin also kickstarted a career dealing in antiques, traveling worldwide to purchase for antique shows in Atlanta, Roundtop, and Dallas-Fort Worth. He had recently attained his real estate and insurance licenses and planned to retire in that field.
Martin loved to go deep sea fishing and had owned a property at South Padre Island to pursue this hobby with friends. His true passion was rescuing animals and giving them a home.
Martin was predeceased by his parents. He is survived by sister Cynthia Hayter Green and husband Kevin, sister Nancy Hayter Bogart, nieces Rebecca, Jenna, Elizabeth, and Caroline, nephews John, Robert, and Ben, grandnieces Lucy, Mary Lyle, and Evie, and grandnephews Cameron, Parker and Ford.
A Memorial Service will be held at Kavanaugh United Methodist Church in Greenville, Texas on Friday, June 9, 2023, at 11 a.m. Rev. Ben Shinn will be presiding. Coker-Mathews Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. https://obituaries.heraldbanner.com/obituary/don-martin-hayter-1088365365
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Deneen Clark
I did not know Martin in high school at all - we only met because he was part of my Dad's Applebee's Happy Hour Gang - and I used to go there in the afternoons to escape our shop's heat in the summer. I can still picture him at the bar with his iPad and daily Dallas paper, along with a beer and a shot of Rumple Minze. He always left the paper, so if I missed him, I knew he had already been there and I would take it home. We shared a common world view and had a lot of great conversations about antiques, collectibles, selling on eBay and other platforms, music, our shared California city experiences and a host of other topics. We also worked together on a couple of business venture ideas he had as he loved to use me to bounce tech pros and cons. He was hoping to move to New Mexico, so recently we were having some long conversations about the pros and cons since I've spent so much time there over the years. Martin had strong opinions about a lot of topics, but was always gentle and respectful - lots of self control! He is the third person to leave my Dad's Happy Hour Gang (one of which was Cliff Mauldin) - and he will be greatly missed by my Dad and myself.