Martha Cecil Little, of Oxford, Georgia, formerly of Marietta, died Sunday, December 27, 2009, a day after celebrating her 90th birthday. Mot arrived in Marietta in 1955 with her husband, the late Malcolm G. Little, Jr., a young Georgia Tech professor who would later become the head of the City Planning Department. Together they looked after many Georgia Tech students over the years as they raised their own family in the Marietta community. Mot and Malcolm developed great friendships with their Whitlock Heights neighbors at the top of South Woodland Drive, including Ellen and Howard Ector, Mary and Wyman Pilcher, Betty and Joe Kelly and Elinor and Chuck Clayton. An avid bridge player, Mot's bridge circle included Lucia Smith, Peg Darling, Tillie Owenby, Betty Colquitt, Becky Dykes, Nancy Shipley, Myrle Kelley, Mary Morawetz and Mary Agnes Slaughter. As a young mother she volunteered in children's activities at First Presbyterian Church of Marietta, and she was very fond of those church friends, like Judy Bullard, who kept in touch long after she moved from the area. Mot enjoyed gardening, pottery and special friendships with the late Norma and Charlie Laubacher, Noli and Don Edwards, George Griffin and Ruth and Bucky Walters. She was loved and appreciated by family and friends for her candid, colorful and honest assessment of any person or topic. With very questionable results, she served as second mother to help raise Bill Ector, Wyman Pilcher, III and Happy Smith. She is survived by daughter, Greta DuBose Little, and husband, Joel Myerson, of Columbia, SC; daughter, Dianne L. Kramer, and husband, Bill Kramer, of Lake Mary, FL; son, Chuck Little, and wife, Jo Ellen Little, of Madison, GA; six grandchildren, Marti Kramer-Lyons Ladd, George Malcolm Kramer, Meg Kramer, John W. Kramer, Ashley Crews-Little and Beau Little; four great grandchildren; and valued caregivers, Pauline Devereaux and Kawana Chatman. A Celebration of Life in Marietta will be planned for February. Memorials may be given to a hospice organization of your choice in Mot's memory. Final arrangements entrusted to Gregory B. Levett & Sons Funeral Home 914 Scenic Hwy., Lawrenceville, GA 30045 (770) 338-5558.