Obituaries

Rada Shelburn

Dec 25, 2007

Rada Sister Shelburn, 99, of Farwell, Texas, died Tuesday, December 25, 2007 at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis, New Mexico. She was born December 7, 1908 in Glen Rose, Texas to John H. Viola French Birchfield. She owned and operated Abbott Florist in Pasadena, Texas and after retiring moved to Marble Falls, Texas in 1972. She moved to...

Rocky Horton

Dec 23, 2007

Rocky Horton, 44, of Texico, New Mexico, died Sunday, December 23, 2007 in Farwell, Texas. He was born April 25, 1963 in Clovis, New Mexico to Corky and Peggy Tinker Horton. He was raised in Clovis and graduated from Clovis High School in 1982. He attended Clovis Community College where he received his Associates degree. He married Suzahn Inman...

Jack Crockett

Dec 21, 2007

Jack Fredrick Crockett, 61, of Clovis, New Mexico, died Friday, December 21, 2007 at his residence in Clovis. He was born October 29, 1946 in Indiana. He was a long haul truck driver. He married Son Cha Burrough February 14, 1996 in Humble, Texas. He is survived by his wife, Son Cha Crockett of the home in Clovis. Cremation...

Myrtle Harvey

Dec 20, 2007

Myrtle C. Harvey, 86, of Clovis, New Mexico, died Thursday, December 20, 2007 at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis. She was born May 30, 1921 in Sherman, Texas to Lee Parrie Grantland Cain. She married William Ernest Harvey in 1937 in Clovis. She had been a resident of Clovis the past 70 years, moving to Clovis from Texico....

Francisco Garcia

Dec 20, 2007

Francisco J. Garcia, 63, of Clovis, New Mexico died Thursday, December 20, 2007 at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis. Services are pending and will be announced by Steed-Todd Funeral Home.

Robert Lee

Dec 18, 2007

Robert G. Lee age 81 of Clovis passed away December 18, 2007 at Retirement Ranch in Clovis. He was born August 8, 1926 in Perry, Iowa to Ray Clinton and Mary Elizabeth Brock Lee. He married Sarah Jean Gibson on December 4, 1959 at the Cottage Grove Presbyterian Church in Des Moines, Iowa. He worked as a Tool and...

Lura Rundell

Dec 18, 2007

Lura Glenn Rundell, 101, of Farwell, Texas, died Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at Parmer County Community Hospital in Friona, Texas. She was born April 9, 1906 in Bosque County, Texas to William J. Billy Annie McVicker Glenn. She moved to Clarendon, Texas in 1932 and Parmer County in 1944 where she was a homemaker and farmed with her husband....

Sylvia Corder

Dec 17, 2007

Services for Sylvia Eva Corder age 74 will be Wednesday, December 19, 2007 at 2:00 p.m. at Parkland Baptist Church with Pastor Doug Brooks, assisted by Rev. Dick Ross officiating. Burial will follow at the Portales Cemetery in Portales, New Mexico. Mrs. Corder passed away Monday, December 17, 2007 at her home in Clovis. She was born January 29,...

Carolyn Reese

Dec 16, 2007

Mrs. Carolyn Hayes Reese died, December 16, 2007, at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis, New Mexico, after a lengthy illness. She was born on May 9, 1921, in the Redlake Community of Roosevelt County to Walter and Jessie Franse. She was the fourth child born in a family of twelve children. She was preceded in death by her...

Ruth Cox

Dec 15, 2007

Funeral services for Ruthie Ruth Marion Cox, 90, of Clovis, New Mexico will be at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday, December 18, 2007 at Steed-Todd Chapel with Rev. Lester McDonald and Rev. Roy Stewart officiating. Burial will follow at Mission Garden of Memories. Casket bearers will be Ralph Dick, George Hutchison, Lamon Wilson, Gorman Hand, Wayne Kilgore and Chris Killgore. Bill...

Alfred Walker

Dec 15, 2007

Alfred Tuck Walker, 72, of Clovis, New Mexico, died Saturday, December 15, 2007 at M. D. Anderson Hospital in Houston, Texas. He was born April 10, 1935 in Clovis, New Mexico to James Franklin Myrtle B. Whitener Walker. He was a lifetime resident of Clovis and graduated from Clovis High School. He owned and operated Sofas Etc. for 30...

Rozeltha Clark

Dec 9, 2007

Services for Rozeltha Clark, 92, of Clovis, NM, will be held on Thursday, December 13 at 10 a.m. at First Baptist Church, Clovis. The Rev. Stephen Cloud and Dr. Joel Home will officiate. Burial will follow at Lawn Haven Memorial Gardens. Mrs. Clark passed from this life on Sunday, Dec. 9, 2007, at Retirement Ranch. She was born Dec....

Elsie Berry

Dec 6, 2007

Elsie Berry age 71 of Melrose, New Mexico passed away December 6, 2007 in Lubbock, Texas. She was born April 21, 1936 in Field, New Mexico to Tee and Ruby McDaniel Berry. She grew up and went to school in the Field Community. She moved to Melrose in 1954. She and her sister Tressie watched children for many families...

Myrtle Miles

Dec 6, 2007

Ophelia Osborne Billington Miles age 90 passed away December 6, 2007 at the University of Mississippi Medical Center after sustaining a stroke. She was born in Farwell, Texas on May 30, 1917 to James Luther and Geneva Osborne. She was reared in Farwell where she was a postal employee. She married Morgan Billington in 1939. They lived on a...

Tim Bloink

Dec 5, 2007

Tim Lee Bloink, 64, of Clovis, New Mexico, died Wednesday, December 05, 2007, at his home in Clovis. He was born June 17, 1943 in Ypsilanti, Michigan to George and Marjorie Bloink. He joined the U. S. Air Force in 1964 and served in Vietnam. He married Manee Tayatum July 24, 1972 in Korat, Thailand. He came to Clovis...

Lester Teakell

Dec 5, 2007

Service First Church of the Nazarene Chapel 1800 N. Norris Clovis, NM  88101 Saturday, December 8, 2007 10:00 a.m. Cemetery Lawn Haven Memorial Gardens 1601 E. Llano Estacado Clovis, NM  88101 Memorial Contributions Hope Center Matt 25HaP 1200 North Thornton - Suite A Clovis, NM  88101

C. Mcalister

Dec 4, 2007

C. Lois Sis McAlister, 96, of Clovis, New Mexico, died Tuesday, December 4, 2007 at Retirement Ranch in Clovis. She was born April 27, 1911, in Cook County, Texas to Jim Laura Poston Owensby. She married Paul E. McAlister April 21, 1938, in Vernon, Texas. She was a homemaker and a devoted wife and mother. She loved her grandchildren...

Mary Chavez

Dec 1, 2007

Mary L. Chavez, 71, of Clovis, New Mexico, died Sunday, December 1, 2007, at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis. She was born December 9, 1935, in Dilia, New Mexico to Severo Victoriana Garcia Urioste. She married Abelino Chavez April 21, 1952, in Santa Rosa, New Mexico. She was a longtime resident of Clovis where she worked for the...

Virginia Dickenson

Dec 1, 2007

Virginia Dickenson, 76, of Clovis, New Mexico, died Saturday, December 1, 2007, at Retirement Ranch in Clovis. She was born December 18, 1930, in Melvin, Texas to J. B. Velma Herrin New. She moved to Clovis in 1966 where she married the love of her life, Melvin Dickenson on May 20. She was an avid volunteer and did work...

Virginia Smith

Nov 29, 2007

Virginia Katherine Hightower Smith, age 90, beloved mother and grandmother, was born January 10, 1917, in Melrose, New Mexico. She passed away peacefully November 29, 2007 at Prairie Acres Nursing Home, Friona, Texas following a long illness. She is survived by three daughters: Mava Kay Provenico Jake, Las Cruces, NM; Sharon Zuhlke, Houston, TX and Betty Cleaun Newman Gene,...