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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Dec 25, 1968
Page
7
Television technicians rush plans to cover Apollo 8 recovery with satellite relay in doubt. If satellite fails, tapes will be flown to Honolulu five hours late. On Yorktown 2700 crew prepare for Christmas with a quarter ton cake and shipboard events.
Idalou resident Mrs. Pearl Melugin Moorman 84 died at 5 15 am Tuesday at West Texas Hospital She moved from Saint Jo to Texico New Mexico in 1905 then to Idalou in 1942 living with daughter Mrs Robert Collier for 16 years She was a member of Idalou Church of Christ and at death resided at University Convalescent Home Funeral services set for 10 am Thursday at Idalou Church of Christ burial in Idalou Cemetery Henderson Funeral Directors in charge Survivors include her son Bennie Cox of Brownfield several sisters half siblings and two grandchildren One great grandchild Pallbearers listed.
Levelland Texas Mrs C N Olive Jackson 78 longtime area resident died at 8 52 a m Tuesday after an extended illness Services are pending at George C Price Funeral Home She was born in Oklahoma Indian Territory married Carl Jackson in 1905 in Quanah and moved to Levelland in 1926 Survivors include her husband four sons a daughter a half sister fifteen grandchildren and twenty four great grandchildren
Services for John Glenn Hull 32 of National City California nephew of Denver City residents will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Brownfield First Baptist Church with Rev Ed Crow officiating Burial will be in Denver City Memorial Park Funeral directed by Brownfield Funeral Home Hull was killed Saturday when his private plane crashed near San Teuvo He is survived by his wife Care Cates a son Jeffrey his mother Beatrice Phillips of California his father Judson Hall of Oregon and two sisters Bertha Hall and Mrs William Presley both of California
Funeral services for Christine Sanchez six month old daughter of Mr and Mrs Ben Sanchez Jr will be at 2 p m today at Holy Cross Church with Rev Thoms Andrew officiating Burial will follow at Terrace Cemetery under Hudman Funeral Home direction The child died Monday in Crosbyton Hospital Surviving are the parents two sisters Martha Anne and Eloise and grandparents Mr and Mrs Ben Sanchez Sr and Mr and Mrs P E Romo all of Post
Services for Tula Martha Fields 80 will be Thursday at 10 30 a m at Central Methodist Church Brownwood with burial at Greenleaf Cemetery under Davis Morris Funeral Home. She died Monday in a local rest home and was a Brownfield lifelong resident. Survivors include sister Maudie Jo Fields Brownwood and brother Hubert M Fields 2916 21st St.
B C McKinney 81 a Van Zandt County native and Spur resident since 1908 died after a brief illness in Lardbook West Texas Hospital. Services set for 10 a m Friday at Bethel Baptist Church with Rev Dennis Bennett. Burial Spur Cemetery under Campbell Funeral Home. He survived by a large family including six sons two brothers a sister a stepson and many grandchildren and great grandchildren.
Mrs Mary Mattheus 77 longtime Anton area resident died Monday at her Roundups home Funeral services Thursday at St Martin s Lutheran Church Littlefield Rev Philip J Berry officiating Burial Resthaven Memorial Park Lubbock Hammons Funeral Home in charge Survivors include four daughters Gene Bourlon Shallowater Dora Bishop and Robert Mauldin both of Lubbock A F Henderson Smyrna Tenn one son Walter Angheim Calif one brother Alfred Friemel Odessas two sisters I J Stauffer Thrall Annie Gates Quarrall two grandchildren five great grandchildren
Elvis Griffin 85 of 2508 5th St died at 6 pm Tuesday in Lubbock. He was a retired farmer living in Lubbock 24 years after coming from Paris. Services Friday at 10 am at Resthaven Little Church of the Flowers officiated by Rev. David Ray. Burial at Resthaven Memorial Park under Resthaven Singleton Wilson Funeral Home. He is survived by daughter Martha Roden Griffin and daughter-in-law Margaret Whitson, sister Mrs. Fred Coursey, Paris, four grandchildren and three others.
Texas enjoys a sunny Christmas with Lubbock and the South Plains basking in springlike temperatures. A cold front was forecast for late Thursday bringing rain, cooler air, and gusty winds as nationwide storms churn to the north.
Mrs. Bertha Faye Mills 58 was found dead of a gunshot wound at her home in Lockney Tuesday. The service is set for 2 PM Thursday at First Baptist Church with Rev. James Allison officiating. Mills, a Vernon native who moved to Lockney in 1942, was a former librarian and Baptist. She is survived by a son Bobby Poeun of Plainview, five brothers, a sister, and two grandchildren.
Funeral services for W F Lemons are planned at 040 pp in Senders Punercl Yrome Chapel with Rev Royce Warmeek of the First United Methodist Church officiating. Burial will follow in Dafou Cemetery. Lemons, longtime Lub bock resident, died Tuesday in a local rest home. Surviving are four sons Barton of Fleydada, a daughter Co McCormick, two brothers W T of Paduead and C I of Amarillo, a sister Mrs Cora Elmore of Big Spring, four grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
A reflective piece links Christmas Day to biblical joy in Matthew 25 21 and celebrates the bells signaling Christ birth. It speaks of world happiness a kind attitude toward all people and gratitude to God for perfect gifts wishing spiritual peace for the reader.
Funeral services for Mrs D F Smith 86 will be held at 10 a m Thursday at the Broadway Church of Christ with Morace Coffman praising officiating. Burial follows in Englewood Cemetery Slaton with Sanders directing. Mrs Smith resided at 3601 28th St and died Monday in a local rest home after moving to Lubbock four years ago from Slaton where she had lived since 1925. Survivors include two daughters Mrs Otis Cannon and Mrs R A DeLong two sons Eugene L Smith and Wayne Smith one brother Sam M Saunders two sisters Mrs Mary Lee Feece and Mrs Jim Stewart six grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Charlie Allen Brady 79 of 4007 Fourth Street died at 513 p m Tuesday in Lubbock Osteopathic Hospital after a brief illness services are pending at Resthaven Singleton Wilson Funeral He was born in Louisville Ky moved to this area in 1932 from Durant Okla a retired carpenter and World War I veteran Survivors include a son Bertha two daughters seven grandchildren and a great granddaughter
Mrs. Gladys Hudgins 78 a Hale Center Cotton Center area resident since 1908 died Tuesday morning at Hi Plains Hospital. She lived with daughter Mrs. Dick Sturdivant at Cotton Center for 19 years and previously near Hale Center. Services Thursday at Cotton Center First Baptist Church with Rev. Raymond Jones and Rev. T J Orbun officiating. Burial in Hale Center Cemetery. Freeman Funeral Home Hale Center directing. Survivors include husband Ralph Hudgins of Austin three brothers Earl Brandt and David Brandt both of Amarillo and Marie Brandt of Fennimore Wis six sisters Velma Wofford Van Nuys Calif Winnie Ketterer Fenimore Wis Ione Burkett Doris Jackson both of Amarillo Lucille Skipworth El Paso and Hilda Hamleton Waen 10 grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Richard Calvin Dowell, 76, will be laid to rest Thursday at 11 a.m. in the Smith-Rogers Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. G. H. Wright of Victory Baptist Church officiating. Burial follows in Resthaven Cemetery. Dowell died Monday in a local hospital after an extended illness. Survivors include wife Miriam, son J. D. of Fort Worth, daughters Marie Fitzsimmons of Norwalk California and Lavada Baniszewski of Cudahy California, brother Cecil of Johnsonville California, sisters Ola Brunson of Petersburg Effie Bailey of Abilene Jewell Bailey of Knox City and Ruby Moorehead of Fresno California, five grandchildren and seven great grandchildren.
Davie L Foreman 70 of 1796 22nd St died Monday in Methodist Hospital after a long illness. He was a self employed practical accountant who moved to Lubbock from Rotan in 1942. Services 2 pm Thursday Weatherby Funeral Chapel Rotan Burial Rotan Cemetery. Local arrangements Sanders Funeral Home. Survived by Piccola two sisters Fawn Wiley Rotan Fern Burditt Beeville and brother Paul Foreman Roby.
Apollo 8 pilots describe the moon as gray with plaster like color and many rounded craters. Lovell notes high contrast near the terminator and easy visibility of features including a large terraced crater and Mt Marilyn nearby.
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