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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 15, 1957
Page
3
Two people were injured in separate automobile incidents in and near Lubbock on Saturday with one victim hospitalized. Earlier, four more people remained hospitalized from a two car collision Thursday night at 38th Street and Flint Avenue.
Inter American Life Insurance Co managers and wives gathered Friday at Regional Manager W K Rogers home for a Christmas dinner and gift exchange. Attendees included couples from Big Spring, Lubbock, La Mesa, Colorado City, Snyder, and other nearby towns.
The highest England temperature, 100.5 degrees, was reported in Tonbridge Kent in 1868. Mrs. E. E. Brown of 3820 23rd St. was in good condition. Police noted a collision between a Hooper girl’s car and Mrs. Edge’s car, with investigation continuing Saturday.
Jimmie L. Johnson 28 died Saturday evening at St Marys Hospital after seven weeks in care. Funeral services are set for 3 p.m. Monday at College Avenue Baptist Church with Rev. Abe Hester and Rev. J Chess Levern officiating. Sanders Funeral Home handles arrangements. He lived at 2617 38th Street and was married to Mildred Johnson. He was born September 21, 1929 in Lubbock and attended Texas Tech for one year after graduating from Lubbock High School in 1947. He worked seven years for Peerless Pump Co. Survivors include his wife, his parents Mr. and Mrs. Jim Johnson, and a brother Don Johnson, all of the same address.
Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Lizzie Warren 86 will be at 2 p m Sunday in the First Methodist Church Ralls. The Rev J E Peters Shallowater will officiate with the Rev Walter White Ralls assisting. Burial in Ralls Cemetery under Carter Funeral Home direction. Survived by two daughters Mrs W J Watts and Miss Mary Warren three sons Henry Robert both of Shallowater and Connie Rosse five grandchildren eight great grandchildren. Pallbearers Merwin Watts Wayne Watts Bob Kimbrough Raymond Hunter Gale Cox J L Cornwell.
Funeral services for Mrs. S. B. Powell of Dallas will be at 10 30 a m Monday at Weiland Merritt Funeral Home Dallas Burial will be at Grove Hill Cemetery Mrs Powell died Friday night in West Texas Hospital after a heart attack She had visited in Lubbock for a month and lived in Dallas 20 years Survivors include her husband three sisters Josephine Powell Bert Welsh man and J C Parr and a brother George Reynolds all of Dallas
Mrs. Hattie Belle Stokes 66 died at home four miles south of Halfway in Hale County. Found by her son Joe B. Stokes, an inquest by Justice of the Peace W J Lewis ruled death natural. Survived by sons John H O Donnell Frank E Dallas and Joe B a foster son Melvin Moore nine grandchildren and three brothers. Her husband J J Stokes was killed in a car crash near Lubbock. Funeral arrangements by Lemons Funeral Home.
Aaron Adolphus Craigo 72 a retired farmer of Littlefield Route 2 died Friday morning in Littlefield Hospital Clinic Funeral services are at 2 30 p m Sunday at First Baptist Church Littlefield with the Rev Wayne Perry and Dr Lee Hemphill officiating Burial will be in Littlefield Memorial Park Hammons Funeral Home directing Survivors include his wife four sons five daughters two half brothers five half sisters and 14 grandchildren
Funeral services for Mrs. W. L. Hughlett 81 will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Northside Baptist Church. The Rev. A. J. Franks pastor will officiate.
Funeral services for C. H. Critchfield 70 Plainview will be held at 2 p.m. Monday at Lemons Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Arthur Digg officiating. He died Saturday after a long illness born December 27 1876 in Andrews County Missouri came to Plainview in 1916 from Graham Survivors include four daughters one son 13 grandchildren and 14 great grandchildren Burial in IOOF Cemetery. Also note a 34 floor hotel project for London and details of other local obituaries with survivors.
Funeral services for Mrs Eliza Ellen Henderson 88 will be at 2 p m Sunday at Progress Baptist Church with Rev C C Morgan and Rev Cone Merritt officiating. She died Friday night at her daughter’s home Rt 2 Muleshoe survived by two sons a daughter 11 grandchildren 26 great grandchildren and six great great grandchildren. Burial is in Altus Cemetery after body is moved to Merritt Funeral Home Altus.
Funeral services are set in Odessa for Clark H. Huffman 76 of Seminole killed when struck by an auto on State Highway 51 north of Odessa. Surviving relatives include five sisters and two brothers. arrangements pending arrival of relatives from Oklahoma. Roy Dies 40 of Lubbock, formerly of Kansas, will have funeral services at 4 p.m. today at Rix Funeral Home Chapel with burial at Tech Memorial Park. He is survived by wife two sons his mother and several siblings.
Laredo Texas December 14 Dr Ernest H Poteet president of Texas A I College has been named Mr South Texas of 1958 by the Washingtons Birthday Celebration Society of Laredo The Southern Cross voyage will move from Sydney Australia to Brisbane the flyer s birthplace to honor the event.
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