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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Oct 17, 1960
Page
8
Funeral services for Martha ElizabEth McQuien 99 of Dawson County are set for 10 a m today at Lamesa Church of Christ Burial will follow in Lamesa Cemetery Higginbotham Funeral Home to direct rites with W T Hamilton officiating Survivors include three daughters five sons seventeen grandchildren and thirty great great grandchildren
Clovis special report notes Capt. Kent S Bates 29 of Salt Lake City Utah died when his T 23 jet crashed near Cannon AFB Saturday during a routine flight from Maxwell AFB en route to Hill AFB Utah. Arrangements to be made in Bountiful Utah with Roberts Funeral Home transferring body to Union Mortuary.
Poem excerpt praises whistling as a sign of courage and carefree living. It recalls a bygone habit of workers whistling while they toil. The verse beneath invokes Psalm 63:5 and urges a joyful, contented mindset in daily tasks.
Mrs Stella May Bird 62 a Lamb County resident for five years died about 19 p m Saturday in Medical Arts Hospital Littlefield Funeral services are set for 5 p m today at Ninth Street Church of Christ Littlefield with minister Alvis Fisher and Jack McCartney officiating Burial will be in Littlefield Cemetery under Hammond Funeral Home direction She moved here from Childress and operated a farm 25 miles east of Littlefield She was born in Tioga Survivors include her husband three daughters Mrs Eva Burris of Lubbock and St Louis Mrs Jane Nickles and Mrs Abe Anderson
Plainview special rites for Hurtis Murel Monkres 99 who died after a heart attack as his newborn daughter died at Swisher County Hospital Tulsa. He farmed near Kress moving from Thackerville. Korean War veteran survived by wife Betty Bonds and six-year-old Hurtis Dale. Funeral to be at Plainview Memorial Park with Lemons Funeral Home directing.
Obituary notice for Moncrief of Lubbock who died after a long illness at West Texas Hospital. service led by Rev. David Griffin with burial at Resthaven. Survivors include three sons, two sisters, and three grandchildren. Also mentions unrelated Melbourne development plan.
Mrs Glenn Jones 51 a Lubbock resident since 1916 died Friday afternoon at Methodist Hospital after a long illness. Funeral services will be held at Westminster Presbyterian Church with Rev David Zacharias officiating. Burial follows at Resthaven Memorial Park under Rix Funeral Home direction. Mrs Jones formerly worked 22 years as registrar at Methodist Hospital and is survived by sister Mrs Martry Mitchell San Antonio brother RP Johnson and two nephews.
Carl HL Berner 64 died after a two month illness at his home northwest of Kress. Funeral services are at 2p today at Christ Lutheran Church with Rev. Albert Segebin officiating. Burial in Rose Hill Cemetery under Wallace Funeral Home Tulsa. Born Hamburg Germany, he came to the U S in childhood and was a World War I veteran. He belonged to Christ Lutheran Church.
Last rites are set for Mrs. Fannie Camp in Seminole First Baptist Church with burial in Seminole Cemetery after she died in Midland Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were held for Smith B. Kinkead in Hobbs with burial in Prairie Haven Cemetery. Roscoe sees services for Minnie Lauw. C. Fe Umilang in Lubbock. John Thomas Riggs in Lorain Cemetery. Eugene Davis in Plainview. others noted across the region. Brownfield, Lubbock, and Amarillo events include political and union meetings, absentee ballots, and a barbershop quartet event.
Funeral services for Mrs. Nelile Hene Redwine a 49 year old police dispatcher killed in an auto mishap near Hobbs are scheduled for 2 p.m. at Hirst Baptist Church Denver City with Rev. F C Bradley officiating Burial will be in Denver City Memorial Cemetery. Surviving are two sons Doyle and Dale Redwine a daughter Frances LaVonne Redwine two sisters a twin sister and a brother and three grandchildren.
Cicero Pendley 70 of Lubbock died Sunday at Methodist Hospital after two years of poor health. Funeral services at First Baptist Church with Pastor Dee J. Valentino officiating. Burial in City of Lubbock Cemetery under Sanders Funeral Home direction. Survived by wife five sons two sisters and ten grandchildren. Pendley longtime Lubbock resident previously lived in Eldorado Ohio.
Snyder resident Mrs. John Spears died Sunday at her Snyder home after a long illness. Funeral services will be held today at First Baptist Church with Rev. Fermanuson of Lubbock and Rev. Walter Mitchell officiating. Burial will follow at Snyder Bell Funeral Home. She was born in Peelville and survived by her son Elmerice Spears, two sisters Elizabeth Martin and Mila Buchanan, and three grandchildren.
A garbled OCR passage describes India introducing five Honesses and a lion to its air forest to protect a hen, mentions epidemin P and a lionless India, references a British bird owitcher and the loss of nests off Scroby Sends near Great Yarmouth, and notes honorary pallbearers from the Service Bible Class of the First Baptist Church.
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