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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1959
Page
2
Briscoe area resident 68 dies at Swisher County Hospital. Funeral at First Baptist with Rev Bobbie officiating. Burial in Quitaque Cemetery directed by Roberts Funeral Home. Survivors include son Lawrence and four daughters. numerous grandchildren and great grandchildren. Funeral details and family names listed in local notices.
Alien Military Academy in Bryan offers small classes with a favorable student to instructor ratio. Live-in instructors provide tutoring and conferences to accelerate learning. Allen Academy is cited as a top honor military school with new dormitories dining hall and recreation building opening for the next term.
Richard Glenn Boozer 89 a retired Shallowater farmer died Tuesday in St Marys Hospital Lubbock. Services set for 4 p m Thursday at First Baptist Church Shallowater with Rev C R Roberts and pastors Gael Holt Slaw and Alea Astenis officiating. Burial in City Rock Cemetery under McDonald Funeral Chapel direction. Survivors include sons Norman St Helen Cte Gil and Shallowater Joe Dimmitt Hi Salinas Calif. daughters Varina Putman Juta Nawghan Opal Pine. and 16 great grandchildren. Burial at City of Lubbock Cemetery.
Funeral services for Hugh Dungan Griffith 46 lifelong Lockney farmer will be held at West Side Church of Christ at 3 pm. He died instantly Monday when his pickup wrecked into a fence near Sterley Gin. Burial will be in Lockney Cemetery. Survived by wife Edith two sons Bobby and Dan a brother L J Griffith and three sisters.
Services are set at 3:30 p.m. today in Hobbs for Opal Mardin Hardin 48 who died unexpectedly Sunday in a Hobbs hospital. Survived by husband Ted Hittin and several relatives, with burial at Memorial Gardens Hobbs. Active pallbearers include Glen Cole RJ McMurray and others.
Funeral services for Mrs Struve a longtime Hale Center resident will be held at 2 30 pm today at the Hale Center First Baptist Church The Rev Raymond Dyess and the Rev Charles Gates will officiate Burial will be in Aberpath Cemetery under Lemons Funeral Home of Plainview direction Survivors include daughter Mrs Tom C Smith Olton three sons Walter Eugene Struve of Hale Center Frank Struve Olton six grandchildren and four step grandchildren The article notes past community involvement and a move to the area in 1918 with details on siblings and extended family
W K Moody dies at home from heart attack at 8 p m Monday. Funeral services set for 3 p m today at First Baptist Church Plainview with De Ruy McChingis officiating. Burial in Plainview Memorial Park under Wood-Mitchell Funeral Home direction. Survivors include his wife and five children plus a sister and five grandchildren. Moody moved to Plainview in 1985 from Ratan and worked at Slaughter Garage as a mechanic.
Gail pioneer woman Kath erine Frances York 78 mother of Lee F York of Lubbock died Tuesday at Medical Arts Hospital Gail. Services will be Thursday in Gail School Auditorium burial in Gail Cemetery under Higginbotham Funeral Home direction. Born Williamson County Mexico she lived in Borden County 39 years member of Dorward Memorial Methodist Church. Survived by husband three sons Lee F Lubbock J F Sumner NM W S of Littlefield and six grandchildren.
The body of Dr Harald Dewey Thomas age 60, former Lubbock resident, was sent to Dallas for cremation Tuesday night by McDougald Funeral Chapel. He died Saturday at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Biz Spring after stomach surgery. A World War II veteran he served as an intelligence officer with the Canadian Army attached to U S forces. He later taught medicine and worked as anesthesiology instructor in Toledo before moving to Lubbock five years ago to work at Methodist Hospital and Porter Clinic among others.
Funeral services for Ivy Roxanna Chapman 82 will be held at 4 pm today at Lorenzo Baptist Church with Rev. Jack Pearce and Rev. R D Webster officiating. Burial will follow in Ralls Cemetery under Carter Funeral Home direction. Chapman died Sunday afternoon in a two car collision near Ralls.
At 1 47 p m Tuesday a two car collision on 19th Street near Avenue W injured three people. Troy McGuire and Thelma and Rebecca McGuire were treated and dismissed from West Texas Hospital. L E Crites of Kansas City Missouri, driver of the other car, was uninjured.
STU DIED IN THE US. Solomon Nyka Eliafoo, who studied two years at Berets College in Lindsborg, is named Tanganyika East Africa first unofficial health minister. Also noted are funeral plans for Johnnie J. Wright of Seminole, and Maryknoll Missioners appoint Rev Leslie T. Rogers to Tanganyika mission.
The Golden Gate Baptist Theater Seminary relocates from Berkeley to a new campus at Strawberry Point just north of San Francisco, California.
H A Karpe longtime Post and O Donnell resident dies at Blocker Grocery in O Donnell after moving from Post ten years ago. He ran the Southside Grocery and served in World War I. He was an American Legion member and Presbyterian. Survived by wife Feida son Dale in the navy and four sisters including Elizabeth Zimmerman Emma Minks Martha Johnson and Lydia Footnick.
We delivered an American Motors V-4 aluminum air cooled engine to the armed forces in a special purpose vehicle. Our tests covered 2 and 4 cycle engines and many configurations including V-engines and inline layouts. Rear engines showed best use in very small light cars but raise steering and traction challenges.
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