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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 15, 1970
Page
9
A free five week course for private pilot licensure began Tuesday at Hodges Community Center 41st and University. Classes run 7 am to 4 pm on Tuesdays and Wednesdays with registration by calling 762 6411 Ext 319. topics include pre flight, navigation weather and FAA regulations.
Julien C. Hyer appeals to readers to seek tranquility without tranquilizers or psychiatric treatment. He envisions a future on the moon Bay of Tranquility where people live normally, guided by God and simple means.
Carl Houston Carson a Sunnyside area farmer died Wednesday in Ft. Lyon Veterans Hospital Colorado at 2 30 p m Friday funeral at Sun nyside Baptist Church Olton with Rev M D Durham and Rev Mae Turner officiating Burial in Olton Cemetery Parsons Funeral Home in charge He was a World War III veteran longtime Sunnyside farmer survived by wife Lilian two daughters two sons three sisters his mother and four brothers and one grandchild
Roger Bean 71 longtime Floyd County resident died Wednesday at Lockney General Hospital after a three day illness. He lived in Floyd County over 50 years and worked for Patterson Grain Co. He married Willie Taylor in 1921. Surviving are wife a son William Lee Winters a daughter Margaret Calahan seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren. Funeral at 2 p.m. at South Plains Baptist Church in Lockney with Rev Bill Trice officiating. Burial Floydada Cemetery directed by Carter Funeral Home Lockney.
Harry Bo Marrett 68 of Ropesville died Tuesday in Methodist Hospital. Services at 10 am today at Resthaven-Singleton-Wilson chapel with Garey Atkissen and Traves Boyt officiating. Burial in Rest Haven Memorial Park. Survived by Bertha his wife eight sons Vernon Victor George James Harold Thomas Richard Bert a daughter Doris Barnes 22 grandchildren and a great grandchild.
Eusebio Sanchez infant son of Mr and Mrs Eusebio Sanchez of Olton died Wednesday in a Galveston hospital. Rites were read at Fagons Funeral Home in Olton with services binding for the family.
Edgin retired farmer and Lamb County resident since 1924 dies Tuesday at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. Funeral at 3 p.m. today in Parsons Funeral Home chapel with Rev Tommy Nelson officiating. Burial in Olton Cemetery. Survivors include wife Mae, daughters Mrs Walden of Olton and Mrs Dutton of Monta Vista Colorado, two sisters, 13 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren. Grandsons pallbearers.
Jackson County District Attorney Don Cumbest said Eddie Ray Baker faces murder and armed robbery charges in connection with the killing of grocer E B Sherman in Pascagoula on February 1 1969 and with burglaries in Dumas and Wildorado Texas. Another suspect Houston Evans is charged similarly in Sherman killing. Baker is jailed in Moore County Texas awaiting extradition.
Mrs Cornelia Bowers of 708 East Tulane died at Methodist Hospital after a heart attack. Funeral services set for 10 am Friday at Henderson Funeral Chapel with burial in City of Lubbock Cemetery. Survived by three sons, three sisters, eleven grandchildren, fifteen great grandchildren.
In Orebic Yugoslavia the Sunj family preserves a gold watch said to have belonged to Abraham Lincoln. The timepiece, given to Josip Sunj who died in 1913, honors saving the crew of an American ship in the Atlantic in 1861.
Debris located east of Fredericksburg confirms the loss of a light plane missing since Friday. Frederickburg officials identified pilot Gordon Walker of Fort Collins and tentatively Raul Gomez and Oralia Gomez of San Antonio and Tony Garcia of the Houston area. The craft crashed near the LBJ Ranch after fueling at Llano, scattering debris in a 40 foot arc.
Harry MacGregor Woods 74, famed songwriter of the 1920s and 1930s, was struck by a car after stepping from a taxi in front of his east Phoenix home. He wrote more than 360 songs including Side by Side and When the Red Red Robin Comes Bob Bob Bobbin Along. Private services and cremation will be held Friday. survived by his wife, two sons, a stepson, a brother, a sister and two grandchildren.
Services for Frank D Ball 68 a retired Nazareth farmer will be at 11 a m today in Holy Family Catholic Church Burial will be in Holy Family Cemetery under Dennis Funeral Home direction Ball was found dead at his residence Tuesday He is survived by a brother Florence Nazareth and four sisters Marie Keming Effingham Kans Regina Petisch Atchison Colletta Super Humphrey Neb and Isabel Schulte Nazareth
Funeral for the Rev. Lon Evans aged 84 of 2902 Beech Ave will be held Friday at Wasen Chapel Church of God in Christ in Centerville. Burial in Centerville Cemetery directed by Jamison Funeral Home. Evans moved to Lubbock six months ago from Centerville and is survived by seven sons and seven daughters including Jesse Evans Johnnie Evans Doris Evans and Jo Ann Weatherspoon in Lubbock.
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