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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1967
Page
7
SAIGON UPI Ambassador Ellsworth Bunker, in a year end review, says the Vietnam war has been relatively short so far and urges patience and persistence from all Americans to bring the fighting to a close.
In Saigon, diplomat Bunker says US forces exceed 500000 and endure heavy fighting while praising progress. He warns against overconfidence, stresses patience and steady advances militarily and politically, and cites improving South Vietnam forces, anti corruption, pacification speed, and economy as 1968 priorities.
Services for Sgt. Joe Pena Jr. killed in Vietnam will be at 10 30 a m Tuesday at the First Mexican Church in Plainview with burial at Plainview Memorial Park Cemetery Also listed are funerals for Carrie Bonner Lewis L Robinson J D Bench Nannie Hull and Mire Tda Mana with church services and burial details in Amherst Idalou Shiloh and Peaceful Gardens Memorial Park and notes on local losses in the Vietnam conflict.
Calvert Curry 66 owner of Brownfield Medical Pharmacy dies after short illness in Brownfield General Hospital. Services set for 3 p.m. Tuesday at St Stephen s Episcopal Church Sweetwater with burial in Garden of Memory Cemetery. Local arrangements by Brownfield Funeral Home. Survivors include wife Josephine two daughters a stepson a brother and three sisters.
Mrs. Lee of Duke Oklahoma lived in Dickens County for 44 years. Services will be 2:20 p.m. Tuesday at Spur Church of Christ with Gary Williams and Glenn Davis officiating. Burial will be in Spur Cemetery under Campbell Funeral Home direction.
Dewey Darden 66 of 2415 47th St died at 7 40 am Sunday at Methodist Hospital from injuries suffered in a truck train crash Thursday night. Services set for Tuesday at 2 pm at Resthaven Little Church of the Flowers with Rev Donnie Miller officiating. Burial in Resthaven Memorial Park. Darden was a Winnsboro native resident of Lubbock since 1942 member of Victory Baptist Church and Masonic Lodge. Survived by two daughters Mrs Belle Huntsman and Mrs Earlene Carr of Fort Worth a sister Mrs Mavis Parr of Lubbock two brothers Morris of Winnsboro and Rudy of Lubbock and three grandchildren.
The monarch is noted for two distinct celebrations: the anniversary of her birth and the scheduled official birthday observance each year, a historic custom reflecting royal pageantry and public ceremonies.
Denise Darvall died in a car crash three weeks ago and her heart was used in the world’s first human heart transplant to keep Louis Washkansky alive for 18 days. Denise’s mother Myrthe also died in the crash. Jonathan Van Wyk, who received Denise’s kidney, is improving in hospital and awaits his mother’s visit.
Obituaries report Earl George Lane of 55th Street, long time South Plains resident, funeral at Sanders Memorial Chapel. Wallace Sebesta, visiting Caldwell relatives, dies. services pending with Caldwell Funeral Home. Lawrence M. Alexander, 61, of 37th Street, funeral at First Baptist with Masonic graveside rites at Resthaven. Survivors listed. pallbearers named. Local Christmas reflections describe Edward Darvall and family coping after tragedy, dinner plans, and faith. Independence McDonald of Floydada hospitalized after gunshot. suspect arrested. further details unavailable.
In Moscow a man buys a Christmas tree for his two daughters after a week of braving subzero weather and hard to find Soviet markets. An after hours lot offers a tree for a ballpoint pen as part of a clandestine but legal exchange with a shop manager.
Mrs. McGuire's funeral service for Francis May McGuire aged 78 will be at 11 am Wednesday at Jolly Funeral Home Chapel Clarksville. Burial follows at Lanes Chapel Cemetery. McGuire a native of Red River County lived in Lubbock since 1953, survived by three daughters Roy Fb Henley J R Widner and George W, a son Roy Rogers, 13 grandchildren 26 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.
Funeral services for James Buck Rogers aged 50 of 304 FE 37th St. will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Franklin-Bartley Chapel with Rev. R L Porter of Antioch Baptist Church officiating. Burial will follow at Resthaven Memorial Park. Rogers died Saturday afternoon in Kermit at a niece's home where he and a sister were visiting for the holidays. He was born in Peacock Texas and worked for Texas Tech about a year. He lived in Laichock the past two years, coming from Stamford. He was a Baptist. Survivors include three sisters Mrs Joe Ward and Mrs Emma Baker both of 404 37th St. and Mrs Olle McGary of Haskell and a half-brother John Lowrance of Las Vegas Nevada.
Cecil Guthrie 62 of Odessa formerly of Lubbock was found dead at home from an apparent heart attack. Services set for 3 p m Tuesday at Tabernacle Baptist Church. Burial in City of Lubbock Cemetery under Odessa Funeral Home direction. Survived by wife Merle two sons E J and Neal a daughter Mrs Dwayne Beaty a brother Preston four sisters and nine grandchildren.
The Temple Youth Organization of Shaareth Israel in Lubbock handed out gifts to children and visited older patients at St. Mary's Hospital and Methodist Hospital on Sunday between 4 and 6 p.m. The group includes youths aged 14 to 18 and is advised by Sammy Young and Mr. and Mrs. Morris Weinberg.
Funeral services will be held Tuesday for Bob Hancock 57 who died Saturday night in Lubbock after a heart attack. He lived with daughter Mrs Bobby Carothers in Lubbock and had been a Crosbyton resident since 1926. Survivors include two brothers two sisters and four grandchildren. Officiating will be Rev Donald Hancock nephew with interment in Crosbyton Cemetery arrangements by Henderson Funeral Directors.
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