Slaying of Retired Farmer and Wife in Texas Farm Home
Sam and Gladys Lott, a 63 and 72 year old married couple dependent on neighbors, were found slain in their Farm Road 16 house five miles east of a Smith County town. Authorities described throat slashing with possible shooting, and a claw hammer with blood on it was found. The home was ransacked and dinner remained on the table, suggesting the deaths occurred after evening meal Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lindale
Tex
Sam
Gladys Lott
Smith County
Tyler
Texas
Stewart Dowell
Abe Hayes
Dowell
Harlan Long
Mrs McMillan Rites in Odess a Thursday
Odessa obituary for Mrs Ramona Arlen McMillan 40 who died Tuesday at Medical Center Hospital. Services set for 2 30 p m Thursday at Hubbard Kelly Funeral Home with Richard M Williams officiating. Burial at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Surviving husband Howard two sons Michael and Howard Jr mother Oleta Parden Odessa sister Mrs Danny Wilson brother Rex Parden of San Mateo Calif and grandmother Mrs Nellie Pedigo of Greensburg Kansas.
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Odessa
Ramona Arlen McMillan
Medical Center Hospital
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home
Richard M. Williams
Sherwood Church of Christ
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Mullinville
Kan
McMillan
Odia
Hobbs
Odessa Christian School
Howard McMillan
Michael
Howard Jr
Oleta Parden
Danny Wilson
Rex Parden l
San’ Mateo
Calif
Nellie Pedigo
Greensburg
Kat
Oulda Ann Ragsdale
Hubbard-Kelly ‘Funeral
John Carl Lee Rites Set for Hereford Man
Funeral services for 65 year old John Carl Lee of Summerfield are planned at 10 a.m. Thursday at Summerfield Baptist Church with former pastors Rev E M Weathers of Amarillo and Rev L C Roots of Lubbock presiding. Burial follows at Restlawn Memorial Park under Gililland Funeral Home Hereford. Lee died Tuesday afternoon at Deaf Smith General Hospital after a long illness. He was Pittman Grain Company manager in Summerfield. Survivors include his wife Mary Inez Clark two sons Wayne Plainview and Jackie O Brien three daughters Carlyle Sargent Hereford Jack Howell Dimmitt and Don Moke Dimmitt three brothers Otis Hereford W R Lee Gatesville and Emil Lee Washington DC two sisters Exie Kennedy Waco and Lena Griffee Roosevelt Okla eleven grandchildren and one great grandchild.
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Hereford
John Carl Lee
Summerfield
Summerfield Baptist Church
E. M. Weathers
Amarillo
L. C. Roots
Lubbock
Restlawn Memorial Park
Gililland Funeral Home
Lee
Deaf Smith General Hospital
Pittman Grain Company
Gatesville
Mary Inez Clark
Littlefield
Wayne
Plainview
Jackie
Emil Lee
Washington, D.C
Exie Kennedy
Waco
Lena Griffee
Roosevelt, Okla
Services Today for Allen Wallace Johnson at Portales Church
Funeral services for Allen Wallace Johnson age 64 are set for 10 30 a m today at First United Methodist Church in Portales with burial at Woodbine Cemetery in Artesia under Wheeler Mortuary. Johnson a former Safeway dairy worker and NM State University 1936 graduate died after a long illness. He served as Dona Ana Luna and Otero county agent and later ran dairies in Hope Carlsbad and Artesia. Survivors include his wife Edith two sons Ronald and Randy a daughter Mrs Carl Shamburger a brother and four sisters. Memorials may be made to the Portales First United Methodist Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portales
Allen Wallace Johnson
First United Methodist Church
Woodbine
Artesia
Wheeler Mortuary
Otero
Hope
Carlsbad
Safeway Organization
Clovis
State Cattle Sanitation Board
Edith
Ronald
New London
Conn
Randy
Carl Shamburger
Levelland
Max Johnson
Katherine Attebery
Houston
East Text Hospital
Weldon
Lia St. James Baptist Church
Tex
W. R. Ochiltree
Sam Houston State University
Odessa
Rix
Carthage
Robin
Baptist
Commerce
Gow
Beaumont
Medical Arts Hospital
Masonic Lodge
St. James
Baptist Church
Clinton
San Antoniio
Alvin
Home
Mabel Jenkins
Detroit
Mich
Ella Jenkins
Stanton
Fred
Oakland
Calif
Elmer
Cdestimer Robinson
Denver
Colo
Prew
Albert N. Nor
Underwood
Phoenix
Abilene
Aniz
Elliott's
Petersburg
Bur
Lemons Funeral
Cedar Hill
Plainview
el Petersburg
Liott
Norman
Lubbock
Jing
Hendrick Memorial Hospital
Abi
Allen
Lene
Johnson
New Mexico
Don L. Hargis
Mi United Methodist Church
Mrs Services Set Turner's Martian Craft Test In Roswell
Mrs Blanche Adelle Turner, 83, died Monday in Memorial Hospital Roswell N M services set for Thursday at 7 30 a m in Trinity United Methodist Church officiating Burial will be Saturday in Roswell The events describe tests of a Martian landing craft Viking to probe its parachute system at subsonic speeds The third test was held Sunday at the Roswell Industrial Air Center and was deemed successful Ollene
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clovis
Blanche Adelle Turner
Memorial Hospital
Roswell
N.M
UPI
Trinity
United Methodist Church
Viking
Clyde Ray Stanfield
Jramaine
Five injured in Odessa crash seek aid after long delay
Five injured people could not obtain help after their car hit a concrete guard rail on Loop 338 near Odessa. An Ector County deputy stopped eight hours later at around 7 a.m. Mrs Delia Amata 31 and her 13 year old Arron were among those hospitalized in satisfactory condition. Greta Watson 35 also hospitalized while Angela 5 and Kevin 9 were treated and released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Loop 338
Delia Amata
Medical Center Hospital
Arron
Greta Watson
Angela Watson
Kevin Watson
Burglary Charge Filed At Odessa
A burglary charge was filed against Gary Lee Stover 21 for an August 8 Odessa home break in Bond set at 6000 by Justice of the Peace Howare William Lester Three other men 19 James Lear 20 Tadlock were arrested in a stolen car from California All are held on fugitive bonds Steed Todd Funeral Home listed for services and a Turner family obituary notes multiple survivors across several states and cities
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Odessa
Gary Lee Stover
Justice of the Peace
Howare
William
Steve ‘Lester
James Lear
Nis ‘Tadlock
California
J C Robinson's Rites Today
Obituary notice for J C Robinson and J Cullen Sowers detailing deaths and services. Notes include ages, hospitals, church services in Commerce and Odessa, burial plans, and survivor lists with multiple family members and locations.
Jesus wept with mourners in scriptural reflection
A reflective devotional excerpt cites John 11 35 and the image of Jesus weeping with friends who mourn the dead. The prose prays for blessing on those who grieve and offers personal comfort through faith in times of loss.
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Jesus
John
Dutien
Hyer
Son of Army Sergeant Found Dead at Fort Hood
Autopsy says 16 year old Lampasas High junior Johnnie S Cooke Jr died from two small caliber gunshot wounds to the heart with a superficial abdominal stab and abrasions. He was last seen in Copperas Cove between midnight and 1 am Sunday. The body was found Sunday on Anderson Mountain in the Fort Hood reservation. FBI says no link yet to 12 year old Jeffrey James Kunberger found in a pond last July.
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Ft, Hood
UPI
Lampasas High
Johnnie S. Cooke, Jr
Anderson Mountain
Ft. Hood
John W. Keller
Copperas Cove
FBI
Darnall Army Hospital
Cooke
i|Leffrey
James Kunberger
Killeen
Kunber
Jger
Private rites to be set for Levant
Beverly Hills authorities said Oscar Levant 65 died of a heart attack and autopsy results were pending. The gifted pianist composer known for his wit against his own hypochondria was to have private funeral services arranged on Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beverly Hills
Calif
Oscar Levant
Levant
Funeral services and notices from Abilene area
A jumble of funeral notices and related details from Abilene and surrounding towns list services for Mrs. Canta M. Torres Mrs. Lovielila Beth Bowyer and others. Includes burial plans at City of Levelland Cemetery Ma sonic Cemetery and Petersburg Cemetery with various funeral homes named such as George Price Funeral Home Kiker Warren Funeral Home and Lemons Funeral Home. Also notes a malpractice suit settlement in Portales involving Dr Michael Elisasser.
Loy Wynin rites Thursday in Plainview
Loy F Wynn 66 of Route 10 on Tuesday at Central Pisins Hospital died after a long illness. The service at Plainview Cemetery will be under Lemons Funeral Home. Survivors include a husband three daughters and three sons. Levant, famed pianist and composer, once depicted as neurotic, had married twice, with three children from his second union and a long public career linked to Gershwin.
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Loy F. Wynn
Tueeday Central Pisins
Ninilum
Bia
Church “of Christ
Gene Potbede
Ceil
Plainview
Lemons Funeral Home
Dodson
The
Tinks
Columbia
siStreets Church of Christ
Stsen Bezahler
Levant
George Gershwin
June Gale
Barbara Smith
Mar-ieta
Lorna
Amanda
Soldier Rites and Court Case Highlight Local News
Funeral services set for Lula Perveltepee 81 of 3410 B 85th Drive with burial at Resthaven Memorial Park after a settled lawsuit against contractors in the W. W. Rix Chapel. Other notices include memorials for Elizabeth Kemp 40 and Oulda Ann Ragsdale 39, with services in Hereford and Odessa respectively, and a report on Roy Nanez 21 and Gary Green 15 from Deaf Smith County involved in separate incidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roose
Lula
Colonial Nursing Home
Services Friday for Odessa grocer Joe Hallmark
Joe Lester Hallmark 58 a longtime Odessa grocer died Tuesday morning in a Big Spring hospital. Services Friday 10 a.m. Hubbard Kelly Funeral Home Chapel with Rev l Curtis Thorpe and Rev Theodore Baker officiating. Burial Sunset Memorial Gardens. Survivors include his wife a son a stepson and relatives.
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Odessa
Joe Lester Hallmark
Big Spring
Hubbard-Kelly Funeral ‘Home
L Curtis ‘Thorpe
Theodore Baker
Sunset Memorial Gardens
Ratcliff
Hallmark
Kilgore F
VEW
Joe
San Diego
Cali
Robert Tate
Albert Hallmark
Lala Carrol
Max
Brownsville
Billy
Leonardtown
Albert Hallmark Jr
Singapore
China
Fayren Mattingly
Leonardstown
Lalene Henderson
Mrs Brown's Rites Pending in Level land
Mrs. Cora Brown 93 of Level land died about 2 p.m. Tuesday at Cook Memorial Hospital. Services are pending with George C. Price Funeral Home. A DeLeon native who moved to Level land in 1967 from Morton where she had lived since 1963, she leaves three sons J M Amarillo Frank Meadow and Sam McAdoo. five daughters Mrs R K Lindsey and Mrs A R Lind sey both of Morton. Gertrude Brown of Ropesville. Mrs Inez Johnston of Houston. and Mrs Dewey Butler of College Station. two brothers George Hojjard of Littlefield and Jewell Howard of Odessa. 11 grandchildren 24 great-grandchildren and three great-great-grandchildren.
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Levelland
Cora Brown
Jin Cook Memorial Hospital
George C. Price
DeLeon
Brown
Morton
J. M
Amarillo
Frank
Meadow
Sam
McAdoo
R. K. Lindsey
A. R. Lindsey
Gertrude [Brown
Mrs. Barrett Rites Planned in Lamesa
Funeral services for Mrs. D. E. Barrett 84 who died Tuesday in Medical Arts Hospital will be held at 2 pm Thursday at First Baptist Church Lamesa. Rev Bill Hardage will officiate with Branon Funeral Home directing burial at Lamesa Memorial Park. She lived in Lamesa and Dawson County 56 years and is survived by Ernest and Eugene Barrett of Lamesa a stepson R J Barrett of Concord California a brother Cicero Arnett of Lubbock four grandchildren and 21 great grandchildren.
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Lamesa
D. E. Barrett
Medical Arts Hospital
First Baptist Church of
Bill Hardage
Lamesa Memorial Park
Branon Funeral Home
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Mrs. McMillan
A. W. Johnson
Mrs. Services
Turner
Ector County
Kent
Steed-Todd Funeral Home
Thelmaine Martin
Cris
Tomilou Burns
Deer Park
Tisor [Duncan
el Campo
Maud Loston
J. C. Robinson
Ean Or Wast
Texas State University
Dallas
Sowers
Ito Fane
Bahinenn
Canta M. Torres
Spanish Assembly
Surat
City of Levelland
George Price Funeral Home
Lovielilabeth Bowyer
Kiker-Warren
Masonic
June
Kiker-Wardead
Ren Funeral Home
Ray
Candice Bergen
Intervieur
Mra Loy Wynin
Mid Scott
Doyle Tipton
Raymond McDaniel
Plain
View
Ralph
Buddy Wayne Wynn
Eddie Wynn
Robert IC. Wright
137Th District Court
Bert Stennett
Church of God
Slaton
Englewood Cemetery
Jes
Rosie of Dodson
Mrs. Ashtack
Tresley Redwine
Fillmore
Rites
Elizabeth Ann Kemp
First Baptist Church
Restlawn
Gilisland ‘Funeral Home
Coronsto High School
Paula Walker
Deanna Phelps
Stella Burton
Coolidge
Ariz
Burton
Robert A. New
Tion
Smyer
Roy Nanez
Slall Ballard
Rosed
St. Answell
Newton
Thony's
Farmer
West Park
Lang Portales
Gilliland
Imamat Hema
Army
Nanez l
Gary Green
Hallows
Ter
Methodist
Sidney
Mont
Deaf Smith County
Shallowater
Jin
Green
Neice
Ernesto Nanez
Raymond
Reymundo Vidal
Rosalinda Nanez
Lupita Corti Inas
Marie Sanchez
Juanita
J. L. Hallmark’s
Raymond Dippel
16Th Street
Glen Blaylock
42Nd Street
St. Mary of the Plains Hospital
U.S. 84 South and Loop
Larry Dean Williamson
26Th Street
Tech Freeway
Brownfield-Levelland Exchange
Chay
Methods
Chappell
Mrs. Barrett
Lubbock Monument Works
Georgia
Bill Linn
Ong
Aneone
34Th Street
Woolco
Spores
Eck Yount
Memphis Avenue
Lubbock, Texas
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