Harry Sherwood and Freda Malinda Feige Sherwood
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Sherwood, Harry       2/26/1899       5/2/1984
Born: Ryan, OK Indian Territory
Father: Henry Elswick SHERWOOD
Mother; Elizabeth MORTER
Source: Adams Funeral Home
Transcribed by Bettye Odom

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Freda SherwoodCROSBYTON (Special) — Services for Freda Sherwood, 83, will be at 1:30 p.m. Sunday in the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Johnnie Williams, a retired Methodist minister from Lubbock, and the Rev. Al Jennings, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in Crosbyton Cemetery under the direction of Adams Funeral Home.

Mrs. Sherwood, a native of Wolfe City, died at 7:45 a.m. Friday in Methodist Hospital after a lengthy illness. She came to Crosbyton from Childress in 1919 and married Harry Sherwood here Aug. 2, 1919. She was a Methodist.

The retired schoolteacher taught in Crosbyton school 30 years and in 1964 was honored as the Outstanding Citizen Through the Years.

Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Mrs. Kenneth (Jean) Halbert of Crowell and Mrs. David (Freda) Largent of Wisall, Mont.; four grandchildren; and six great grandchildren.

Crosbyton Review, Nov. 17, 1983
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes

CROSBYTON (Special) — Services for Harry Sherwood, 85, a retired farmer, are pending with Adams Funeral Home.

Sherwood, a native of Indian Territory (Oklahoma), died at 3:45 p.m. Wednesday in Foard County Hospital in Crowell after a lengthy illness

The World War I Veteran was a former owner of Plains Mercantile Co. and was a member of the Crosbyton Lions Club and First Methodist Church.

He married Freda Feige in Crosbyton Aug. 2, 1919. She died in 1983.

Survivors include two daughters, Jean Halbert of Crowell and Freda Largent of Wilsall, Mont.; two brothers, Clyde and Fred of Childress; six sisters, Mary Heath and Janet Wright of Childress, Mitt Littlefield and Bessie Halton of Crosbyton, Nadine Morgan of Olney and Helen Crews of Las Vegas, NM; four grandchildren; and seven great grandchildren.

Lubbock Avalanche Journal, May 3, 1984
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes




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