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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Feb 08, 1973
Page
4
Obituaries for Charles Lynn Alford and multiple other residents update services, survivors, and burial plans across Hart, Plainview, Brownfield, and Seminole. Notables include former cafe owner Alford. Baldwin retirees. stock events in Plainview. and Wade of Seminole. Details cover hospitals, gravesides, and family listings.
Frances I Austin Snyder 90, Scurry County pioneer, died Wednesday in Cogdell Memorial Hospital Snyder. Services Friday 10 a.m. Bell Seale Funeral Chapel with Rev George White officiating. Burial Dunn Cemetery. Born Alabama, moved to Scurry County 70 years ago. Survived by daughter Mrs Doug Burney, two grandchildren, two great grandchildren.
Hobbs community gathers for Eva Ballesteros 35 who died at Hobbs Lea General Hospital after a long illness. A Rosary is set for 8 p.m. today at Griffin Funeral Home Chapel followed by a 10:30 a.m. Friday funeral at St. Helena's Catholic Church. Burial at Prairie Haven Cemetery. Survivors include husband Leon two daughters Rosemary Nora a son Andy mother Mrs Francesca Diaz and brother Abel Diaz of Hobbs.
Obituary briefs list numerous services in Odessa Slaton and Idalou including Jackie Dangerfield Jb of Odessa at Rose of Sharon Baptist Church and Odessa Cemetery under Tix Funeral Home. Alice L Baker 9 buried Englewood Cemetery after Mercy Hospital death. J L Herbst 86 Rt 1 Idalou died at Methodist Hospital with services at First Baptist Idalou. Clarence FE Lamb 66 buried Resthaven Memorial Park after West Texas Hospital death. Louis Alma McNew 50 former Lamesa resident to be buried in Kurt Lounesa Cemetery.
Charlie Combs died about 2215 p.m. Wednesday at West Texas Hospital after six weeks ill health. Born in Okmulgee Oklahoma, he moved to Lubbock in 1941 from County Line and was a foreman for Panhandle Construction Co. Funeral arrangements are at Sanders Funeral Home.
Services for Grace Newton 71 formerly of Brownfield set for 10 am at First Baptist Church Brownfield. Burial in Memorial Cemetery under Brownfield Funeral Home direction. Died Sunday in Mesa Arizona. Clyde Rives 48 Odessa service 4 pm at St Cephas Catholic Church with Sunset Memorial Gardens burial. Died after arrival at Medical Center Hospital. Rovers 65 Milburn Oklahoma service Saturday Lee's Chapel with burial Milburn Cemetery. Rogers found dead. carbon monoxide poisoning ruled. Diana Frausta 7 David Frausta 15 Micha Lena Persoy Moding 1 Anita Martini 14 services 2 pm Friday Sacred Heart Littlefield. Four schoolchildren killed bus accident Littlefield Northfield. Diana born in Levelland David born in Bovina. Survivors parents Frausta sister Debbie Maria Medina unknown. Mrs Mo? Anita Taylor 70 Abernathy memorial service 10 am First Baptist. Burial City of Lubbock Cemetery. Orval Slaughter 62 Temoser service 4 pm Lemons Memorial ChapelPlainview burial Plainview Cemetery.
Services for Julia Davis nine and six other schoolchildren killed when an express freight train struck their bus are planned for ten oclock at the First Presbyterian Church of Littlefield with burial in South Park Cemetery Pearland later Friday. Hammons and Royal funeral homes coordinate the arrangements. Julia born in Houston to Mr. and Mrs. George Davis, with a sister Jennifer and two brothers among the injured, and grandparents listed from Houston and Pearl River La.
Flora Peter Capeella, a World War II veteran and accountant, is mourned after being found with a gunshot wound. Funeral mass will be at St Marys Church Odessa with burial at Resthaven Memorial Park Midland. Rosary was held. inquest ruled death a personal safety related gunshot wound.
Poem by Julien C. Hyer urges instilling integrity in children as a guiding trait. It emphasizes truth, right conduct, and honoring moral laws in God’s sight, warning against exaggeration and half truth.
D Cunningham of Odessa dies in Houston Hospital after a long illness. Services set for Friday at Hubbard Kelly Funeral Chapel with burial in Sunset Memorial Gardens. Born Beaumont, he moved to Odessa in 1941 and retired from sales. Survived by wife Lucille, daughter Mrs Jerry King, brother Paul Cunningham, sister Mrs Jack Hammer, and four grandchildren. Donations to the American Cancer Society requested.
Mrs. Frank J. Embring, a Midland resident since the 1940s, will be laid to rest Friday at Fairview Cemetery with Bill Walker of the Church of Christ officiating. She died Wednesday in a Midland hospital after a lengthy illness. The deceased was a native of Oakland Nebraska and is survived by her husband a stepson in Fort Bragg North Carolina a stepdaughter in McAllen Texas two brothers Virgil Ellis of Redfield South Dakota and Delman Ellis of Odessa a sister Mrs Harry Thomas of Beatrice Nebraska four grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Lorena M Farrow 80 died at 11 a m Wednesday in the West Winds Convalescent Home with Rev James Cooper officiating Burial set for 3 p m Friday in Hamlin She moved from McCauley 21 years ago Survivors include son Paul of Odessa two daughters Maureen Lester of 302 FB Purdue Ave and Mandell Laster of Dallas two sisters Wiltie Robertson of Maples Fla
Graveside services for Gerald Anthony Irsik infant son of Sgt Charles L Irsik of Cannon AFB are set for 10 a m at Lawn Haven Cemetery with base chaplain Rev Kenneth Veanvenu officiating Arrangements were by Steed Todd Funeral Home The infant died shortly after birth Survivors include parents three brothers Matthew John Robert and sister Kathleen all at home and grandmothers Mrs Mary Laytham Passaic New Jersey and Mrs Martha Irsik Newton Kansas
Services set for 2:30 p.m. today at Sweet Street Baptist Church Tahoka with Rev. Dan Rupp officiating. Burial in Tahoka Cemetery by White Funeral Home. McMillan died 9:35 p.m. Tuesday in Medical Arts Hospital Lamesa after a long illness. A native of Eastland County he moved to Lynn County in 1923 and farmed until retirement. He was a Baptist, member of Masons and Oddfellows. Survived by his wife Callie Belle Stone McMillan and eight daughters, three sons, two brothers, many grandchildren and great grandchildren. Memorials to O'Donnell voluntary ambulance service.
Earl McNiel Brownfield former Terry County commissioner Precinct 1 for 12 years died in a car truck collision on Highway 137 six miles south of town. Funeral at Union Baptist Church with Rev Cletus Caswell officiating. Burial Terry County Memorial Cemetery under McNiel Funeral Directors. Survived by his wife two daughters and several relatives.
Loyce A Pulliam 64 of Li Goth St Apt A of Brandon Florida died Wednesday in University Hospital after a short illness. Local arrangements by Sanders Funeral Home. A retired Merchant Marine seaman, he had resided in Lubbock five months. Survived by two daughters Mrs Willa Mae Flickinger and Mrs Lais Collins both of Albuquerque NM. three sisters Mrs Eva Robison 1208 36th St Mrs Florence Robins New Orleans LA and Mrs barjorie Burnett Tampa FL. two brothers Alton Pulliam Tampa and O J Pulliam New Orleans.
Funeral arrangements set for Mrs James L Mead 44 in Midland with Rev Jim Considine officiating burial at Fairview Cemetery. Survivors include husband son James W Horn two daughters Nancy and Mary Kathleen all of Midland mother Nancy Bruce Norris City and siblings. Claude Melvin Mears 59 burial at Littlefield Memorial Park died after heart attack moved to Friona 19 years ago from Littlefield with wife Ruby two daughters two sons and extended family in Texas New Mexico and Arizona.
Ortiz children Edward 17 and Aurora 9, son and daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elaino Ortiz, are set for 4:30 p.m. Friday at Hammons Funeral Chapel with burial in Littlefield Cemetery. They were among six killed when an express freight train struck their school bus about 4 p.m. Tuesday. Survivors include the parents.
Services for Mrs. R C Sanner 67 are scheduled for 2 a m Friday at the First Christian Church with Rev Nolan Pierce officiating. Burial will be in Resthaven Mausoleum under Englands Funeral Home. She died about 10 15 a m Wednesday at Mercy Hospital after a short illness. Born in Fort Madison Iowa, she had been a Slaton resident.
Ben J. Wileman 87 dies after illness. Funeral at 3 p.m. today at Wallace Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. L W Tucker officiating. Burial in Rose Hill Cemetery. He was a Georgetown native, retired farmer, in Tulsa area since 1910. Survived by Eva daughter Gryce Stering of North Palm Beach Fla two brothers St Wileman of Fort Worth and Mack Wileman of Beaumont two sisters Mrs Gene Shore of Coleman Mrs May Jones of Corpus Christi and Mrs Bess Windslett of Midland two grandchildren and two great.
A Portales mother of a week-old girl died in a three vehicle collision south of Clovis on U S 70 about 11 30 a m Wednesday. Four others were injured including Mrs Edana Davis and her child. The Davis car struck the rear of a semi truck driven by Arno Schumann. All southbound lanes were blocked for over 30 minutes. Services for the deceased were pending. This was Curry County s first annual fatality.
In Custer South Dakota a mass protest led by AIM erupted as threats and a violent confrontation with state troopers left 4 officers injured and 27 Indians arrested. The unrest followed a fatal barroom stabbing in Buffalo Gap and included arson at a tourist building and a firebombed courthouse.
A fourth sailor from the destroyer USS Basilone died of burns from a boiler explosion during training 120 miles south of New York City. Charles Hearrold, 37, of Raynham Massachusetts, died at Brooke Army Medical Center while three shipmates were killed earlier. Navy investigators reviewed the blast with a Navy spokesman denying a trapped-in-lock theory.
Mrs Wanda Hartis was found not guilty in district court of the 1972 stabbing death of her husband Chester Hartis. The body was found in their Lovington trailer home and the jury deliberated about an hour and a half before Judge Kermit Nash.
A shooting in Amherst Wednesday killed Claudie William Rosson. Justice of the Peace W.T. Vcreen of Sudan ruled the death a personal safety related gunshot wound. Funeral services were pending Wednesday evening with Hammonds Funeral Home in Little Piala Je.
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