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Funeral services were conducted at 3:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon in the First Baptist Church here for Delwyn Claude Kelley, 14, son I cf Mr. and Mrs. William Vernon I Kelley, and a member of the Sopho- j more class of the Tahoka High j School, Who died at 2:00 Friday afternoon following an emergency appendicitis operation in the TahokaHospital.Rev. C. T. Aly conducted the service-, and burial followed in the I Tahoka cemetery under the direction of Stanley Funeral Home.Pall bearers were members of the football team, the Tahoka Bulldogs, Lvnn Carl Halamicek, Wiley Curry, D;n Brice, Wayne Tekell. Bill Short, and James Foster. Tic remaining jIfootball boys were named as honorary pall bearers. Flower girls were members of the Soph-more class.Delwyn Claude was highly respected and greatly beloved by his classmates, team mates, and others,and his untimely and unexpecteddeath brought great sorrow to all his friends and associates. 1Survivors include the father and mother; two brothers. Billy Ray of Hobbs. New Mexico, and JerryLynn Kelly of the family home: ' two sisters, Mrs. Lola Fern Schnei- : der of Wilson and Judith Ann Kel-lev of the home: the two paternal grandparents. Mr and Mrs. W. R Kelley of Gustine: the maternalGrandmother. Mrs. Laura Tuttle of 1 Ta oka: two aunts and two uncles.Delwyn Claude was born in Co-mandhe county on January 13, 1935. The family moved to Tahoka in j 1937. The youth therefore had spent most of his life here. The grandparents who live at Gustine came *up for the funeral services.
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Tahoka Lynn County News
Tahoka, Texas, US
Fri, Nov 11, 1949
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