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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1973
Page
5
Obituaries list services for Dr John S Boling 36 of 2311 36th St at Gloria Dei Lutheran Church with burial at Resthaven Memorial Park under Rix Funeral Directors. Survivors include wife Bon, two daughters and two sisters. Also noted are memorial requests to the American Heart Association and Gloria Dei Church. Other notices mention E W Havens Nellie Cad Strucker Charlie Jarman and several survivors.
Roy O. Mettles 75 of Rt 1 Meadow died Thursday morning at Lubbock Methodist Hospital after a lengthy illness. Services will be 10 a.m. Saturday at First United Methodist Church Tahoka with Rev. D P Denison and Rev. DeWitt Seazo officiating. Burial in Tahoka Cemetery under White PasNeval Home Tahoka direction. Mettles a Jones County native moved to Lynn County then Tahoka and attended local schools before Stanford College. A World War I veteran and farmer he was a longtime Lak e Methodist Church member and Sunday School teacher. Survivors include his wife two daughters two sons a sister eight grandchildren and a great grandchild. Pallbearers listed. Burial under Resthaven-Singleton-Wilson Funeral Home direction.
The obituary notes 22 grandchildren 3 great grandchildren and 43 great great grandchildren for Pedro Ontiveroz Lucerne Valley Calif. The deceased was survived by Mrs H P Rice of Plainview and Mrs G T Walker of Crockett and was preceded in death by four daughters and four sons.
The 86 year old Hattie Rockey died Wednesday at Muleshoe Nursing Home. Funeral at 10 30 a m in the Singleton Eilis Chapel with Rev Glen Harlin officiating. Burial at Bailey County Memorial Park. She moved from Portales New Mexico to Muleshoe in 1927. Survivors include a daughter, three sons, four grandchildren and seven great grandchildren. Her husband Neil F Rockey died in 1956.
In Lamesa two obituaries and a drowning incident are reported. Pedro Memorial Park resident Mrs Susie Melvina Sanders dies after illness. services at First Assembly of God and St Teresa Catholic Church. Ontiveros, a Lubbock native, dies in White River Lake near Crosby County after a drowning while fishing family details listed.
Mrs Margaret Teague Smith 55 of 1720 Dartmouth St dies at Methodist Hospital. Funeral at Henderson Chapel at 2 p m with burial at City of Lubbock Cemetery. Survivors include husband Leo Smith son Billy Teague and brother R T Flattley. She was born in Great Falls Montana and was a registered nurse graduate of Parkland Hospital.
Chalambaga Services for Missandro Ambaza 67 of Fort Stockton are pending after death at TEAR Hospital. James Funeral Home Ozona to handle arrangements with Henderson Funeral Directors. Native of Mexico, he leaves Agapita two sons Elisandra Sr and Apretie four daughters Natalia Fuentes Olga Pena Anna Maldonado Vera Oliates and 13 grandchildren.
Roy L Coleman aged 40s died Thursday in Methodist Hospital Memphis Texas funeral services set for 2 pm Saturday at First Christian Church with Rev Tan Posey officiating. Burial will follow at Fairview Cemetery under Spicer Funeral Home arrangements. Coleman served as justice of the peace for five years and is survived by sons Roy Dat of El Paso and Jon Carrot, a sister Mrs Jens Blanchard of Amarillo, and four grandchildren. He moved to Memphis in 1915 and worked as a bookkeeper for Waples Platter Wholesale Grocery and owned a local grocery from 1927 to 1938.
Samuel Constance Coursey of Deer Park died at 8 15 p m Wednesday in Mt Sinai Hospital Houston after a long illness. He was 72 and a brother of W W Coursey of Levelland. Services will be at 2 00 pm Saturday at George C Price Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Bob Reynolds officiating. Burial will be in Levelland Cemetery. He retired from an automotive company in Fort Worth and had lived in Deer Park two years. Survivors include another brother W D Coursey of Fort Worth and four sisters Mrs Willie Conway of Fort Worth Mrs Faye Carroll of Tohoka Mrs Doris Wright and Mrs Hester Jackson both of Deer Park.
Services for Lillian Moore aged 48 of 102 85th Street are set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Resthaven Singleton Wilson Chapel with Rev. Craig Wilcox officiating. Burial will be at Resthaven Memorial.
Mary Alice Patton 96 of Plainview died Wednesday after a six month illness. Services will be held at 3 pm today in Wood-Dunning Colonial Chapel with burial at Floy Dada Cemetery. She lived in Paducah and Floydada and was born in Goliad County. She married George W. Patton in Tadmore on August 13, 1899. Survivors include two sons W. E. of Paducah and Lonnie Patton of Floydada.
Clara Yeager 83 of 2609 21st St died about 7 p m Thursday in a local nursing home She was born in Dublin and lived in Lubbock 47 years moving from Stephenville She was a First Baptist Church member Elizabeth Sunday School class Amiga Needle Club Survivors include two daughters Mrs Russell Bean and Mrs James Heflin five grandchildren and three great grandchildren Services are pending with Sanders Funeral Home NAVY EXPANDING RIO DE JANEIRO AP Brazil expands naval resources by acquiring secondhand ships from the United States Britain and West Germany according to official sources.
Haden L Walling 73 of Clovis will be laid to rest at Steed Memorial Chapel with Leonard Ginnings officiating. Burial follows at Lawn Haven. Walling died Wednesday at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock after two years of illness. He was a retired farmer who lived west of Clovis twelve years. Survived by his wife, a brother Delbate James of Hunters, WA, and six sisters in Clovis Spokane and Soulve Dam Wash factions.
At Kitty Hawk North Carolina a sand dune near the Wright Brothers birthplace attracts hang glider enthusiasts. Organizers like Vic Powell promote the First Annual Tactile Meet for Hang Gliders highlighting the wind and dune launch sites as pilots test engine powered and standard gliders.
Texas DPS and United Press International report drownings outnumbered traffic deaths during the Fourth of July period. Fourteen people drowned, including victims at Ratcliff Lake and Lake O the Pines, while 12 died in traffic accidents. Dallas police detective Leon Gray was killed when struck by a backing car. The holiday saw fatalities across several counties and lakes, with cases detailed in several incidents near Ennis, Carthage, and Crosbyton.
The author urges joyful singing as praise, citing Psalm 66 1 and Isaiah 42, noting angels at Christ’s birth and the need for new songs from all people.
Fire Chief Ben Jackson says a faulty cracker caused a July 4 display in Mission to backfire over the crowd, killing two including 19 month old Melissa Genzer and 18 year old Ricardo Vargas and injuring 13 others mostly children. He notes the display was to be Mission’s last and that spectators were warned to stand back. Two fire trucks stood by as the aerial bomb misfired at about two feet, a powder shortfall preventing it from rising higher.
The Miss West Texas Pageant opened with 26 contestants competing in Odessa. Second judging round set for 8 p.m. with public final selection during Employes Week in Texas. TV and radio hosts will emcee. Public Employee Week features an Austin meeting and Lt. Gov. Bill Hobby speech. Walter Looney becomes TPEA president 1973-74, succeeding Joe Miner.
Harry Oliver, two Oscar winner for art direction, died at 89 after predicting he would die on Independence Day. A desert character, he built Ft. Oliver near Thousand Palms, edited the Desert Rat Scrapbook, and once teased a desert secession movement. No funeral services per his wishes. cremation and ashes placed in Ft. Oliver wall.
Harmony Texas invites ex residents and students to a homecoming on July 14 at Coleman Park Party House in Brown. A noon picnic meal will be served.
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