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Funeral services for Melvin C. Henry, 74, were held at 3 p.m. Sunday in the First Baptist Church. Officiating were Rev. Otis Testerman, pastor; Rev. Carl Grissom, Andrews, and Rev. Bill Draper, Plainview.
Henry was building a fence for neighbor Mae Trulock when he was stricken with a heart attack in mid-afternoon Friday. Rushed to Crosbyton Clinic Hospital, he died at 3:55 p.m.
Born in Collin county February 8, 1889, Henry moved first to Brown county and then to Haskell county in 1900 with his parents. Married in 1910, the Henrys moved to the Plains in 1915, first settling at Petersburg. They lived at Aiken and Lorenzo before moving near Crosbyton in 1935.
Henry retired from farming in 1948 and moved into town here in 1955.
He is survived by his wife; three sons, Clay, Floydada; T.Rayburn, Long Beach, Calif.; and Derrell, Odessa; a daughter, Mrs. Alton Strickland, 2701 60th St., Lubbock; three brothers, E. A. Hamlin; Bill, Abilene; and Warren, 3508 28th St., Lubbock; five sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Brown, Albuquerque; Mrs. Minnie Bowman, Whittier, Calif.; Mrs. Ethel Bullock, Petersburg; Mrs. H. L. Matheny, Andrews, and Mrs. Floyd Townsend, Salome, Ariz.; seven grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Burial was in Ralls Cemetery.
Crosbyton Review, February 14, 1963
Services for Mrs. Melvin C. (Bessie) Henry, 92, of Lubbock will be at 2 p.m. today in Lubbock First Baptist Church with the Rev. D. L. Lowrie, pastor, and the Rev. J. Ralph Grant of Lubbock officiating.
Burial will be in Ralls Cemetery under direction of Sanders Funeral Home.
She died Saturday in Sherwood Health Care of Lubbock after a lengthy illness.
She was born in Trion, Ga. She married Melvin Henry Nov. 13, 1910, and he died in 1963. She lived in Lubbock since 1971.
Survivors include three sons, Clay of Floydada, T. Rayburn of Long Beach, Calif., and Derrell of Austin; a daughter,Geraldine Strickland of Lubbock; a brother, Clint Gregory of Bowie; a sister, Mattie Barbour of Austin; six grandchildren; and 10 great grandchildren.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, April 1985
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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