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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1973
Page
5
Obituary notices detail funeral arrangements for John Ernest Brady 64 of Paducah Kentucky with services in Missionary Baptist Church and burial at Buck Creek Cemetery. Brady a WWII veteran and long time resident survived by wife Leta Mae son Leon stepsons sisters and grandchildren. Funeral home Norris Paducah.
Obituaries record Mike Constancio 62 of 2220 1st St died at St Marys Hospital from natural causes. Services pending with Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home. He had lived in Lubbock 12 years, farmed in Dear the Slide, formerly worked at Reese Air Force Base, and belonged to Our Lady of Grace Church. Survivors include four sons and five daughters. Also noted are Glenn Hancock 75 of Jayton, a retired businessman and stock farmer, who died at Stamford Hospital. service at Jayton First United Methodist Church with burial in Jayton Cemetery. Hancock born in Baylor County, married Kathleen Henry in 1919, was a Methodist, Mason, and longtime member of the Texas Cowboy Reunion and Jayton School Board. Survivors include his wife and son and three grandchildren. Also mentioned is Stewart, who died in New York after a car accident, with a note of surviving wife and three daughters and siblings. The notices reference multiple families across Texas towns including Brownsville, Lub bock, Jayton, Refugio, and Houston.
Willard Richardson, 65, of Crosbyton, died of a heart attack at University Hospital in Lubbock. He was a former electrician, a longtime farmer, and past master of Crosbyton Masonic Lodge 1020 AF and AM. Services set for Friday at First Baptist Church Crosbyton with local pastors officiating. Wallace Trapp, 62, Floydada resident and longtime Mason, died after a heart attack near El Paso. Survivors include wife and several children and grandchildren. services pending at Moore Rose Funeral Home in Floydada.
Goode S Wier sued Bradford Wilson in Floyd County in 1907 and died in 1928. Mrs Wilson longtime Fairwell resident moved to Floydada in 1956 and joined First Baptist Church. Survivors include three sons Walton Woodrow and Ran Floydada residents two daughters Mrs Bill Tye and Mrs Bill Beedy 13 grandchildren 27 great grandchildren. Service set at 2 p m today at Floydada First Baptist Church with Dr Floydren as pastor.
In Floyd County Texas uranium mining slows amid a market oversupply. Burial for Goode S Wier of Odessa set in Alice with services in Crosbyton for other local deaths. The text lists survivors including spouses and children and notes delay in nuclear power plans.
Malone Stewart 59 a longtime Odessa resident and retired accountant died. Services scheduled for 2 p m Saturday at Star Baptist Church in Groes-Wier with burial in Lone Star Cemetery under the direction of John of Odessa.
Obituary briefs announce multiple services: Mrs. Roy Alford 64 of Rising Star, funeral at Kelso Chapel Wellington with burial in Wellington Cemetery. Mrs. Pansy Edith Charlton 92 of Clovis, service at Sherwood Chapel and burial at Mission Garden of Memories. John H. Davis 66 of Midland, service at Greater Ideal Baptist Church with burial at Fairview Cemetery. Mrs. W. W. Evans 85, former Lubbock resident, graveside at Bryan Cemetery. John W. Gray 10, service at Sunder Memorial Chapel with burial at Resthaven Memorial Park. Emma Mangum 89, former Lubbock resident now in California, service at Central Baptist Church Lubbock with burial at Crosbyton Cemetery. Robert Francis Wilson 54 of Bovina, service at First United Methodist Church Bovina, with Masonic graveside at Resthaven Memorial Park. Wilson killed in a tractor accident southeast of Bovina.
Sidney Dawson Jones 70 formerly of O'Donnell died in an Oklahoma City nursing home Tuesday. Services set for 2 yb.m. Friday at Church of Christ in Kirkland. burial in Childress. Native of Quanah, he moved to Oklahoma City in 1970 from O'Donnell and retired as custodian at O'Donnell Elementary School. He was a member of Grand Boulevard Church of Christ Oklahoma City. Survivors include his wife Florence Ida Jones and son Morgan D.
Mrs Lillian Gilbert McLaughlin 74 died at Ray's Hospitality Home in Lubbock after a stroke. Services at Emma Church of Christ Ralls with minister Hesland. burial Sulphur Springs Cemetery Friday. Survived by husband Marvin, two daughters, a brother, seven grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Malcolm Henderson 59 died Tuesday at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Alexandria Louisiana. He was a World War I veteran and a construction employee. Survived by son Bill of Clovis and daughter Mrs. Karlyn Houston of Odessa, with four brothers and three sisters and seven grandchildren.
A short poem attributed to Pope John XXIII presents a simple recipe for living life well. It advises trusting the Lord, praying, keeping inner peace, accepting what comes, leaning on family and neighbors, and daily kindness while fulfilling God’s law.
James Wesley Lamb 67 native of Chester died at 2 p m Wednesday in Cook Memorial Hospital Levelland following a lengthy illness He lived in Levelland since 1924 after moving from Grapevine He married Edna Moore in Grapevine June 19 1927 He was a retired oil field triller and a Pentecostal Church of God member He leaves six sons three daughters a brother five sisters and many grandchildren and great grandchildren with details from the Levelland service arrangements.
Indian lore interpreter and historian Charles Engle Plume will speak to Lub bock Knife and Fork Club at 6 30 p m today at Hillcrest Country Club The Larry Jack Stevens Memorial Fund reached 19110 02 by 5 p m Wednesday at Lubbock National Bank for the detective slain in a February 9 gun battle downtown Mrs Frances Daum and Mrs Helen Krueger from Long Island N Y are visiting Mrs Clark Schooley at 2815 52nd St Daum formerly owned EL Tamerack dress shop in Lubbock.
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