Ethel Stone

alignjustify Ethel Stone, 97, of Amarillo died peacefully at home on Saturday, March 10, 2007. A memorial service will be held Monday, March 12, 2007 at 2:30 p.m. at the Continental Retirement Center, 1300 S. Jackson, with Alan Williamson, Park Central Chaplain, officiating. The funeral will be held in Clovis at Steed-Todd Funeral Home, Prince and Manana, at 2:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 13, 2007 with Alan Williamson officiating. Burial will be in Lawn Haven Memorial Gardens in Clovis.

alignjustify Ethel Comer Stone was born January 8, 1910, in Hereford to John and Lena Higgins Comer. At the age of three months, she moved with her family to Clovis, where she lived until moving to the Continental Retirement Center in Amarillo in 1998.

alignjustify Ethel graduated from Clovis High School and Hardin-Simmons University and taught school in New Mexico for five years at Pleasant Hill and Clovis before marrying Robert F. Bob Stone on August 15, 1937.

alignjustify Ethel was a member of Central Baptist Church in Clovis where she served for many years as director of an older childrens Sunday School department, and later as director of the senior adult department. She was a leader in the Womens Missionary Union and always had a heart for missions. She was a world traveler, often going on mission trips with her church. Her main purpose in life was to honor and glorify her Lord Jesus Christ by serving others.

alignjustify Ethel moved to Amarillo in 1998 where she lived at the Continental Retirement Center and joined First Baptist Church. She was a blessing and inspiration to all who knew her.

alignjustify Family will receive friends at Steed-Todd from 10:00 to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 13, 2007.

alignjustify Ethel was preceded in death by her husband, Robert Stone, parents John and Lena Comer, son-in-law Stan Haynes, and great-grandchild Lauren Goar.

alignjustify Survivors include her three daughters, Sharon Goar and husband John of Amarillo, Barbara Staley and husband Ron of Fort Worth, and Beverly Haynes of Pagosa Springs, Colorado; eight grandchildren and eleven great-grandchildren. Also surviving are her brother, Ed Comer of Albuquerque and sister, Wanda von Kohn and husband Ed of Fort Worth.

alignjustify Casket bearers will be her grandchildren, Mike Haynes, Robert Goar, Brent Pressley, Carol Minton, Carla Goar, Camille Cates, Jill Pressley, and Melanie Stephens.

alignjustify In lieu of flowers the family suggests memorials be made to the Hope Fund at the Continental Retirement Center, 1300 S. Jackson, Amarillo, TX 79101, or to the Baptist Childrens Home, 2200 S. Ave. I, Portales, NM 88130.
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Visitation

SteedTodd Funeral Home
800 E. Manana
Clovis, NM  88101
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
10:00 11:30 a.m.

Service

Memorial

Continental Retirement Center
1300 S. Jackson
Amarillo, TX  79101
Monday, March 12, 2007
2:30 p.m.

Funeral

SteedTodd Chapel
800 E. Manana
Clovis, NM  88101
Tuesday, March 13, 2007
2:00 p.m.

Cemetery

Lawn Haven Memorial Gardens
1601 E. Llano Estacado
Clovis, NM  88101

Memorial Contributions

Hope Fund at the Continental Retirement Center
1300 S. Jackson
Amarillo, TX  79101

Baptist Childrens HomeP
1032 Children's Drive
Portales, NM  88130