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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jan 18, 1970
Page
6
References to the Dixie Mafia appear after a Louisiana crime. A gang attacked a gypsy camp at Covington near New Orleans on February 18, prompting investigations into criminal links across the South.
Ray York, 14, must transfer from Taft Junior High to Harding Junior High under a federal order to desegregate schools. Judge Bohanan told marshals to detain him if he appears at Taft, and to hold his parents liable if they obstruct the transfer. The York family contends busing to Harding is the issue, while Ray and his mother defend Taft amid the school integration dispute.
Funeral arrangements for Mrs. Swift of Plainview were announced with burial at Plainview Cemetery. She moved to Plainview in 1920 from Erath County where she was born and died at home Friday at age 88. Burial will be at Plainview Cemetery.
Danny Hickman 5, son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl E. Hickman of Houston, will be buried after services at Highland Baptist Church. The Rev I D Walker and Rev Don Hancock will officiate. Burial is in Resthaven Memorial Park. He died Thursday afternoon after illness at a Houston hospital. Survivors include his parents, a sister, two grandmothers, and two great grandmothers.
Joe Dale Roach 47 died Saturday morning at home. Services at 2 p.m. Monday at Lockney Methodist Church with Rev. Frank Oglesby. Burial in Lockney Cemetery under Lemons Funeral Home direction. Survivors include wife Naomi two sons Ted and Steve and several siblings.
Mrs. Geneva Olene Rosson 42 lifelong Lamesa resident dies Friday evening. Services set for 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church with Dr. George Worrell officiating. Burial in Lamesa Memorial Cemetery. Survivors: husband Fred two daughters Freda Terri and son James of the home parents Olen and Mrs. Earnest and sister Mrs. Harold Holmes, all of Lamesa.
C C Westfall died Saturday in Andrews after a heart attack. Services Monday at Downtown Church of Christ with Grover C Ross officiating. Graveside rites at Portales Cemetery. Westfall moved to Andrews in 1940 from Portales and was a retired rancher and school bus driver. Survivors include wife Evie, three sons, three daughters, three stepdaughters, twenty five grandchildren and eleven pallbearers.
John Brewer Sr a former Andrews resident died Saturday at Goldthwaite Hospital. Services will be 2 p m today at Roy Wilkins Funeral Home Chapel in Goldthwaite with graveside rites Monday at Andrews Cemetery officiated by Rev Odeil Moore. He lived in Andrews from 1948 to 1966 and was a retired farmer and rancher, WWI veteran, Woodmen of the World member. Survivors include his wife Elizabeth Tisdale two sons John Mullin Ben Andrews three sisters four brothers four grandchildren and a great grandchild.
Ollie Stimson 76 longtime Snyder resident died Saturday in a Cassville Missouri hospital. Services set for 10 am Tuesday at First United Methodist Church with Dr John English officiating. Burial in Snyder Cemetery. Burial directed by Bell Seale Funeral Home. Stimson a Lavon native moved to Cassville 18 years ago. Survived by daughter Gladys Ward Snyder two sisters Kula Stimson El Paso Vernelle Stimson Dallas two grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
Hale County unit of the Texas State Teachers Association holds a 7:30 p.m. meeting at Akin Elementary School cafeteria with speaker Sean Douglas, a TSTA field representative and Hale Center High School graduate. Attendants expected from Hale Center Cotton Center Petersburg and Abernathy. DES MOINES farmers boosting output 5 percent yearly, double the industry rate.
P. E. Ware 76 former Snyder resident died at 2 p m Saturday at his Sweetwater home. Services scheduled 3 p m Monday Bell Seale Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Lewis Clegg and Rev. Marvin Rogers officiating. Burial in Snyder. Native of Navarro County he moved to Sweetwater nine years ago and was a retired farmer. Survived by four daughters Trula Stidger Vera St Peter Glenys Tobin LaNel Birmingham. two sons Philip and Jack. five sisters five brothers. 11 grandchildren nine great grandchildren.
Services for Ruben Sanders 62 will be at 2 p.m. Monday at Four Square Gospel Church with Rev. Ray Viel officiating. Burial at Plainview Memorial Park conducted by Wood Dunning Funeral Home. Sanders died Friday at Heritage Home after a Plainview residence since 1941. He survived by wife Alto two sons Jerry and Alvin two daughters Lela Teague and Rob er Skinner four sisters three brothers his mother and seven grandchildren.
Wen dell W. Mayes Sr. a prominent radio and newspaper figure, died of an apparent heart attack at his Brownwood home. At his death he chaired the boards of Texas Woman's University regents and led the Texas State Parks Board, serving on it for about 20 years and four years as chair. He headed stations in Brownwood Fort Worth Midland Austin Snyder and Victoria.
A 46 year old Lubbock man was treated and released from Methodist Hospital with a gunshot wound to the arm. Police said Robert Hammond reported a woman with a .22 rifle approached him in a bathroom at 1713 Bb, 1éth and that the gun discharged accidentally. The incident occurred about 2 pm Saturday. Police said no charges would be filed.
W N Guthrie 76 of 5634 Ave A will have services at 3 pm Monday at Resthaven Singleton Wilson Funeral Home Chapel. Reverend George Calvert will officiate. Burial at Resthaven Memorial Park. Guthrie died Friday in Highland Hospital after a brief illness. native of Paris Texas he moved to Lubbock in 1923 and worked 42 years for Texas Roofing Co as a sheet metal worker. Survivors include three sons Charles Leo Guthrie and Guy Bailey, two daughters Leone Fretz and Ellen Trammell, and two grandsons. Pallbearers named.
Funeral services for Guadalupe Martinez 69 a Post resident since 1940 will be at 4 p m at Holy Cross Catholic Church with Rev Thomas Andrews. Burial follows at Terrace Cemetery under Mason Funeral Home direction. She died Friday in Brownfield visiting daughters. Survived by daughter Ramona Delacruz stepdaughter Cora Luna stepson Rennie Martinez grandchild and great grandchild.
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