Obituaries

Adam Lopez, Jr.

Adam Lopez, Jr.

Jul 6, 2010

Adam Casillas Lopez, Jr., infant, was born and passed away Tuesday, July 6, 2010, at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis, New Mexico. He is survived by his parents, Adam Casillas and Eva Lopez of Clovis grandparents Elias and Debbie Lopez, Adam Galvan and Ramona Lopez, all of Clovis greatgrandparents Mary Chapman, Juan Chavez, and Esther Zera, all of...

Pauline Mccelvey

Pauline Mccelvey

Jul 3, 2010

Polly Betts McCelvey of Springdale, Arkansas, went to be with our Lord on July 2, 2010. She is survived by two children, son Larry Rique West of Tarponsprings Florida, daughter Paula Les Garrett of Elm Springs Ark., brother Edgar Willie Betts of Amarillo, Tx., sister Billie Pat Hill of Clovis N. M., sisterin law Norma Patterson of Clovis N.M.,...

James Mills

James Mills

Jun 30, 2010

James C. Mills of Clovis, NM, passed away at home the afternoon of June 30, 2010. Born on September 27, 1919 in Searcy County, Arkansas, he was the son of Ben Frank and Rosa Lea Mills. In January 1941 Jim enlisted in the U.S. Army at Little Rock, Arkansas. While in service he met Dolly Baker and they were...

Esther Nunn

Esther Nunn

Jun 27, 2010

Esther C. Nunn, age 89, died Sunday, June 27, 2010, at Retirement Ranch. SteedTodd Funeral Home is handling the cremation and no services will be held. Nunn was born in 1921 in Castor County, Texas. She moved to Clovis in 1935 with her parents. She married Holt Pete Nunn November 29, 1940. She was a life member of the...

Jo Jones

Jo Jones

Jun 25, 2010

Jo Ann Jones was called home to be with her Heavenly Father on June 25, 2010 after a two year battle with ovarian cancer. Jo Ann was born November 27, 1951 in Iaeger, West Virginia. When she was 5, her family moved to New Mexico where she lived the rest of her life. Her fathers career with the state...

Laurence Choate

Laurence Choate

Jun 22, 2010

Laurence M. Choate went to sleep in Christ at 95 years of age on June 22, 2010 at his home in Clovis, NM. He was born to Sammie and Birdie Looper Choate on February 18, 1915 in Petersburg, TX in Hale County. He graduated from Clovis High School in 1937. He served in the Army during WWII in Hawaii....

Bruce Deavours

Bruce Deavours

Jun 13, 2010

Bruce R. Deavours, 82, of Texico, New Mexico, died Sunday, June 13, 2010, at his home. He was born October 4, 1927, in Rural Lubbock County, Texas, to Hurshel Paul Myrtle E. Fails Deavours. For the last 81 years he had lived in New Mexico, primarily in Clovis. In his earlier years, he worked for the State Highway Construction...

Eva Raulston

Eva Raulston

May 31, 2010

Eva Lee Hicks Raulston, age 95, of Clovis passed away on Monday, May 31, 2010 in Clovis, New Mexico. She was born on September 30, 1914 in Lockney, Texas, to Clyde and Bertie Bennett. She was married to E. H. Hicks. After his passing, she married Cleburne Raulston. Eva Lee worked in retail sales for numerous stores in the...

Wesley Street

Wesley Street

May 30, 2010

Wesley Blake Street, infant, was born and died Sunday, May 30, 2010 at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis. He is survived by his mother, Shannon Street of the home in Clovis 1 sister, Sage Street of the home grandparents, Jack Becky Landrum of Farwell, Texas and John Street of Muleshoe, Texas great grandmother, Lillian Street of Muleshoe and...

Juan Ballejo

Juan Ballejo

May 24, 2010

Juan Ballejo, 98, of Texico, New Mexico, died Monday May 24, 2010, at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis, New Mexico. He was born May 27, 1921 in Piedra Maria, Mexico, to Cesario and Victoria Aceves Ballejo. He was a welder. He enjoyed horse races and drinking coffee and Town Country and other cafes. He was a member of...

Bill Hodges

Bill Hodges

May 22, 2010

Bill Hodges age 80, of Clovis passed away on Saturday, May 22, 2010 at his home. He was born December 12, 1929 in Portales, New Mexico to Silas and Bessie Brocharo Hodges. He married Lula Lee Pebley December 14, 1951 in Grady, New Mexico she preceded him in death in 1984. He married Ella Brown Houts October 27, 1984...

E.R. Akens

E.R. Akens

May 22, 2010

E. R. Akens, 94, of Clovis, New Mexico, died Saturday, May 22, 2010, at Plains Regional Medical Center. He was born July 31, 1915, in Robert Lee, Texas, to Joseph A. Rosa Akens. He married Billie Mae Kimbrell May 15, 1937, in Portales, New Mexico. He was a general contractor. He was a deacon at Bethel Assembly of God...

Elmer Boney

Elmer Boney

May 21, 2010

Elmer L. Boney, 89. He was born August 10, 1920, to Lloyd and Malissa Bryant Boney on the Boney Homestead north of Broadview, New Mexico. He died Friday, May 21, 2010, on the homestead. He married Lilla Faye Blandford May 19, 1946 in San Jon, New Mexico. He spent his whole life on the homestead, except for the time...

Johnnie Mccauley

Johnnie Mccauley

May 18, 2010

Johnnie McCauley, 83 of Clovis, New Mexico, died on May 18, 2010, at Retirement Ranch in Clovis, after a lengthy illness. She was born July 30, 1926 in Jack County, Texas, to Sye and Mary Kade Montgomery. Johnnie and husband Bill made Clovis their home in 1973 and came to love Clovis and the many friends they had here....

Catharine May

Catharine May

May 17, 2010

Services for Catharine V. Cathy May age 86 of Clovis will be held Friday, May 21, 2010 at 10:00 a.m. at SteedTodd Chapel with Loyd Brookshier officiating. Burial will follow at the Texico Cemetery. Catharine was born October 9, 1923 in Hereford, Texas to Charles Homer and Violet Juanita Denny Durham. She died May 17, 2010, in Portales, New...

Virgil Leeder

Virgil Leeder

May 15, 2010

Virgil Leeder, 82, of Clovis, New Mexico, died Saturday, May 15, 2010, at Southwest Regional Hospital in Lubbock, Texas. He was born March 1, 1928, in Hope, Oklahoma, to Ernest Beatrice Russell Leeder. He was a longtime Clovis resident and a longtime salesman at Triangle Hardware. He married Wilma Jean Purdy December 25, 1940 in Tucson, Arizona. He was...

John Patterson Jr.

John Patterson Jr.

May 14, 2010

John Wesley Wes Patterson Jr., 93, of Clovis, New Mexico, died Friday, May 14, 2010, at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis. He was born April 24, 1917, in Logan, New Mexico to John W. Mattie D. Fairburne Patterson. He served in the U. S. Army during World War II. After basic training he was sent to Oran, North...

Jewell Eberhardt

Jewell Eberhardt

May 13, 2010

Jewell B. Eberhardt, 90, of Clovis, New Mexico, formerly of Elberton, Georgia, died Thursday, May 13, 2010, at Senior Citizen Resident Center. She was born May 1, 1920, in Barwick, Georgia, to Arthur and Emma Magby Barton. She was a homemaker. She is survived by 1 son, Mike Eberhardt Robin of Clovis and 1 daughter, Carole Conrad Roderick of...

Terry Ardrey

Terry Ardrey

May 13, 2010

Terry Ardrey, 62, of Clovis, New Mexico, died Thursday, May 13, 2010, at Covenant Medical Center in Lubbock, Texas. He was born September 19, 1947 in Oakland, California to Elmer and Betsy Wade Ardrey. He graduated from high school in Oakland. He served in the U. S. Army as a military policeman. He later worked as a supervisor for...

Lee Hutchins

Lee Hutchins

May 9, 2010

Lee Hutchins, age 68, of Farwell, Texas passed away Sunday, May 9, 2010 at the Muleshoe Area Medical Center in Muleshoe, Texas. He was born November 4, 1941, in Clovis, New Mexico to Artie Lee and Helen Van Vacter Hutchins. He married Gloria Hillock on January 3, 1960, in Oklahoma Lane, Texas. Lee served the U.S. Navy from 1959...