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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 11, 1975
Page
4
A damaged OCR fragment lists numerous individuals such as Bob, Chaytes, Bobby, James Pope, Mrs Burns, and others connected to a Lubbock area event. Mentions vague roles, kinship links, and place names with no clear action or date. The text appears as scattered names and incomplete phrases from a community or school record.
Mrs. Estrada aged 60 of Spyder died Wednesday at Ridge Hospital in Austin after a brief illness. Burial arrangements are pending with the family noting cherished memories of her husband and son.
Obituary notices report Jesse TT and family mourned in Plainview with services at First Methodist Chapel led by Rev Elmer Crabtree and burial at Plainview Cemetery. Survivors include wife and nine relatives. In Abernathy Fred Aveton TS died at Willains Nursing Home. Services at St Isidore Catholic Church officiated by Rev Clifton, burial in Odd Fellows Cemetery. Survivors include husband and several children and grandchildren.
Vernon Vernon area services for H T Solomon father of a Lubbock resident set for 2:30 today at Lockett Baptist Church with Rev Delmar McBeath officiating. Burial at Wilbarger Memorial Park Vernon. Solomon 61 died in a Wichita Falls hospital from injuries from a May 28 crash near his Lubbock home. Survivors include his wife a son Jack D of Lubbock a daughter Mrs ELC Russell of Guam his mother Mrs J W of Vernon and five grandchildren.
James Allen Tennison Sr. a Lubbock native died Tuesday at the NIH Clinical Center Bethesda Md after a year long illness. Graveside services are set for today at Resthaven Memorial Park with funeral services Friday at Paramount Terrace Christian Church Amarillo. Blackburn-Shaw Funeral Directors of Amarillo direct arrangements. Survivors include son James Allen Jr of Amarillo mother Mrs Max Tennison of Silverton sisters Frances Klein Amarillo Frieda Donson Lubbock and brother Bil Anson.
Obituaries list Jimie Lyon Utley a 21 year old Monterey High School and Texas Tech student who died from injuries in a car crash near Lubbock. Services set at First Baptist Church New Deal with burial at City of Lubbock Cemetery. Other notices include Vera Collier White 67 died in Lubbock, memorials to Children’s Home, and Lula Williams 95 of Fort Worth died in Dallas with memorials requested to Juliet Fowler Nursing Home. Also Borger special obituary for E A Yates 70 of Fritch, with Masonic services and graveside rites in Hale Center Cemetery. Survivors cover extensive family members across Lubbock, Dallas, Fort Worth, and Borger areas.
Obituary notice lists Garner Weems and his sisters Mrs. Raton and Mrs. Love White among mourners. The text mentions relatives and a Prenda child amid a family gathering in Tennessee.
Local report notes funeral arrangements for George Prise with services at a chapel. Mourners include family members and community figures as the ceremony proceeds with familiar tributes and prayers.
Leon Thacker died Tuesday in Pleasant Plains General Hospital after a brief illness. Survivors include his wife Lilla and several children. Funeral services were held at Roaring Springs with members of the Veterans of Foreign Wars and First Baptist Church in attendance.
R C Hudgins resident of Yuma died at 5 a m Wednesday in local medical center. He was born May 8 1905 in Phanview and moved to Yuma in 1965. A retired restaurant owner and farmer he belonged to First Methodist Church Yuma Plaincew Mason Lodge Khica Shrine Amaro and former member of Elks and Odd Fellows lodges.
Obituaries and funeral notices detail services for Jesse Carloye Sr. of Petersburg at Sanders Funeral Home in Lubbock with burial in Peters Cemetery. Paula Evans Etheridge, formerly of Lubbock, will have services in Altus Oklahoma. Also noted is the death of Irene Evans 67 of 2018 17th Street, with graveside rites at Rex Funeral Chapel and Lanol Cemetery in Amarillo. Rev. C. C. Lamb, 72, will be remembered at Sullivan Funeral Home in Vernon. Bartola Salas 67 of Slaton to be buried at Our Lady of Guadalupe Church. Sam Trout 59 of Denver City to be in Trinity Baptist Church.
Police continue to seek three American males who commandeered Ernest Martinez car after picking him up near a club at 1 15 a m They allegedly pulled a knife at intersection of ith Street and Avenue G forcing Martinez to flee as the suspects drove away from 2729 Cormat Street.
Andrew Lee 70 of Fairfield died after being struck by a car while hitchhiking 12 miles east of Big Spring. Funeral services were held at Fairfield United Methodist Church with Rev. Den N. Walker officiating. Burial followed at Hopewell Cemetery in Freestone County under Dorsey Weatts Funeral Home. Survivors include daughter Lucille Lee of Dallas, brothers Hight of Corsicana RL of Odessa and Boyt of Dallas, sister Minnie Gray of Oakland, California, and two grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Mae McKenzie Vrs Mae Williams McKenzie 87 of 3515 25th St died Thursday at about 2:45 pm in Lubbock. Services at 2:30 pm today at Sanders Memorial Chapel with Coffman officiating. Burial at City of Lubbock Cemetery under Hers Funeral Home direction. native of Tennessee she lived in Lubbock 2 years and was a retired school teacher who taught in several schools. Pallbearers named: Martin Dopey Frank Smith J L Mavinis New Purdy Jerry Hale Corral Lockett. Survivors include several nieces.
James S Montgomery Andrews aged 95 of Roscoe dies Tuesday in Roscoe NEELINS Home. Arrangements are pending at McCoy Funeral Home Roscoe and the body will lie at Singleton Funeral Home in Andrews from 3 p.m. today.
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