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Newspaper
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Location
Lubbock, Texas, United States of America
Date
Sep 01, 1970
Page
4
The airport board discusses a new runway study and costs from Forrest and Cotton Engineers Dallas with an expected fee around ten thousand dollars. They consider changing meeting times to 6 pm for better agenda completion with the next session set for September 1.
Francois Mauriac, renowned French author and Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, dies in a Paris hospital after a fall and illness. He suffered a shoulder fracture in April and never recovered, with doctors unable to halt his decline.
Earl C. Higday 7 father of Mrs. Raymond King of Taubbock died after an apparent heart attack in a Rankin hospital. Services set for 2 p.m. Wednesday at First United Methodist Church with burial in Rankin Cemetery. Survivors include two other daughters, a sister in Phoenix, nine grandchildren and one great grandchild.
A 21yearold Brownfield man Roy Bergera Gonzales died after a two car collision about 12 45 a m on Interstate 35 twenty miles north of Pearsall. Two other men Jessie T Ochoa 26 of San Antonio and Miguel O Bergera 36 of Poteet were seriously injured and treated in San Antonio area hospitals. The Southbound Ochoa vehicle and Gonzales car crashed head on causing Gonzales death and the two others injuries. Gonzales was taken to Frio County Hospital in Pearsall where he died about 2 a m. The body was transported to Jackson Funeral Home for services.
Services are pending at Rix Funeral Directors for Mrs. Dessie Rhines 74 who died at West Texas Hospital after a lengthy illness. She lived at 219 Temple before her home was destroyed by a May fire and left four sons including masters of Idalou.
Services for A W Seale 46 brother of Bill Seale of Snyder will be at 2 pm today at Chapita Park First Church in Colorado Springs. Burial will follow at Colorado Springs Cemetery. Seale died Friday after an apparent heart attack. The Storm Defense Club plans a meeting today on the third floor of the Lubbock National Bank.
Mrs Ethel Climer of 620 Hub Homes dies in Ray's Hospitality Home Lubbock. Services set 4 p m at W W Rix Funeral Chapel with Rev Frank R Jones officiating burial at City of Lubbock I Cemeteries. Survivors include multiple sons daughters grandchildren and great grandchildren. Minnie Rogers services at Vernon First Baptist Church. Pledges omitted from Texas Tech sorority list corrected for Pi Beta Phi.
Services for Mrs. Doris Boren 57 a former Lubbock waitress killed in a one car rollover on U S 180 south of Surrey New Mexico were arranged with Resthaven Singleton Wilson Funeral Home Gilbert Bernal a state police officer said her car left the roadway rolled three times and she died en route to Hillcrest General Hospital in Silver City Her body was to be taken to Curtis Bright Funeral Home in Silver City then transferred to Resthaven Singleton Wilson Survivors include daughter Patricia Trujillo and four grandchildren plus two brothers and two sisters
Roy Frank Meeks 79 father of a Lubbock woman died about 9 30 am Monday in a Plainview Hospital Services are pending at Parsons Ellis Singleton Funeral Home in Earth Meeks farmed in the Dodd community northwest of Earth forty years Survivors include his wife two daughters Mrs Jim Gregory of 1611 with St in Lubbock and Mrs Charles White of Globe Ariz three sons Clifford of Muleshoe Marvin of Columbus Ohio and LV of Gabbes Nev a brother Clyde of San Antonio and a sister Mrs Jessie Campbell of Dallas
Services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Sanders Memorial Chapel for C O Christian 65 a former Lubbock resident and restaurant operator who died Sunday in St. Anthony's Hospital Amarillo after a lengthy illness Born in Abilene he moved to Lubbock in 1915 and lived there until 1960 when he moved to Amarillo Survivors include a daughter Ruth Berry of Port Arthur four brothers and four sisters and two grandchildren and one great grandchild burial will be in City of Lubbock Cemetery.
Mrs Viola Tillen Dysart longtime Lamb County resident died after a three year illness in Littlefield Hospitality House She was 89 Survivors include son Robert of Amherst daughter Mrs L W Cockerham of Littlefield five grandchildren and nine great grandchildren Funeral services set for 10 a m at Methodist Church Littlefield Burial in Littlefield Cemetery.
Services for Mrs Lakie Lee Wiley of 3313 38th Street will be at 10 am Wednesday at First Christian Church. Burial follows at City of Lubbock Cemetery under Rix Funeral Directors. She died about 2 45 am Monday at Colonial Nursing Home after living in Lubbock since 1939. Survivors include three sons, J Kell, Don C, and J Pat. two brothers J C Gowin and T B Gowin. four sisters Daisy Hooser Lorina Gowin Midge McNeil and Dick Davis. 11 grandchildren and 8 great grandchildren.
Howard Murphy 43 of AGOS OSth) Sf died at home after a brief illness. Services are set for 2 05 pm Wednesday at Resthaven Singiden Wilson chapel with Rev. Clarence Tedder of First Baptist Church in Whitharral officiating. Burial will be in Resthaven Memorial. Murphy, a foreman for a mechanical contracting firm, was a native of Tetan and served in the Navy in World War III. He moved to Lanheck from Kaan in 1946. Survivors include his wife Thelma, his mother and stepfather Mr and Mrs M T Wise of Monahans, a sister Mrs Carl Freeman of Sheverland, and three stepbrothers Manuel Wise of Jacksonville Fla Marvin Wise of Tyler and Kenneth Wise of San Diego Calif.
Henry A Miller 61 longtime Paris resident and veterinary supply salesman died Saturday in St Marys Hospital Lubbock. Funeral services set for 10 30 am today at Fry Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel Paris with Pastor Jim Harris. Burial at Evergreen Memorial Cemetery. He is survived by son Henry Jr of Honolulu Hawaii daughter Mrs J R Jarrett of Bryan two sisters Annie Tee Miller of Dallas and Mrs J J Hopper of Pine Mountain Gas and two grandchildren.
Mrs Anna Doshin Terry 65 died suddenly at her Dickens home. Born in Comanche County she moved to Dickens in 1921 and resided here. She was a member of Eastern Star Lodge 164 of Spur. Campbell Funeral Home reports she is survived by her husband Hurley.
Plainview special report notes J M Henderson James Mathien Treacherson died after long illness at Heritage Home in Plainview. Funeral service at Tenons Funeral Home Chapel with Pastor Carios MacLeval of Diaunview First Baptist officiating. Burial at van Hae Center. Survivors include wife Eila Moore May 7 TL, i Moran. daughters Fula McDonald Philnotesw Lloyd Stanton Culver City Calif Ais dhampl Wichita Ran,fersens Feedeld Grads Bfershel Plainview Gene Terrell. two brothers Albert Otto Pueblo. sister Mrs Marc Ross Tobia. many grandchildren and one great grandchild. Pallbearers listed.
Funeral services for Mrs Beulah Cornelius will be held at 4 p m today at the Salesville Baptist Church with the Rev Jay McDaniel pastor. Burial will follow in Salesville Cemetery under Henderson Funeral Directors of Lubbock. She died about 8 30 am Monday at Tay s Hospitality Home after years in Lubbock. She was a Hawkins native and had lived in Lubbock. Survivors include two daughters Mrs Hazlewood and Mrs Mabel Osborn of Dallas a son M W Mansell of Houston a stepson C E Mansell of Hawkins five grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
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Stevie Atkinson died after being pinned between a car and an electric loading cart. He was 16, a Patten Springs School student, pronounced dead at Crosbyton Hospital. Funeral services are set for 3 p.m. at First Baptist Church in Orange with Peters of Anton officiating and burial at Dickens Cemetery. Survivors include his parents Kennen and a large extended family.
The report describes air strikes on a northern Saigon area base and surrounding combat activity. Vietnamese forces reportedly attack and bombard targets as North Vietnamese celebrations loom. Casualties and wounded are mentioned amid ongoing allied air and ground operations in Laos and Vietnam.
Francis W. Dalgleish, 27, boarded a plane in Texas posing as a doctor police captain and pilot. He did not disembark in Hawaii and remained aboard en route to Australia where he reportedly died.
Mrs Rosa Adkison of P14 18th St documented in Wes Texas Hospital with services pending at Resthaven-Sing Leonilson Funeral Home. A Mississippi native, she moved to Lubbock in 1920s. Survivors include a son EL W. Adkison and three daughters, plus several grandchildren and great grandchildren.
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