RALLS (Special) - Services for Rex R. Slater, 65, of Ralls will be at 3 p.m. today in the Emma Church of Christ here with Elvin Upton, minister, and Glen Gary, minister of New Home Church of Christ, officiating.
Burial will be in the Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
Slater died at 4 a.m. in Lubbock's Methodist Hospital. He had been under the care of a physician.
Slater was a native of Somervell County. He was a farmer, rancher and a pipeline contractor.
He married Leona Ellerd in Snyder Jan. 14, 1937. He had been a resident of Crosby County since 1952. He was a deacon in the Emma Church of Christ.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Dwayne of Amarillo and Tommye of Odessa; two brothers, Kirk of Gorman, and Glen of Post; two sisters, Opal Winn of Ralls, and Ruby Rogers of Dell City, Okla.; and four grandchildren.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, February 9, 1980
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
Services for Leona Slater Lawson, 91, of Ralls will be held at 1 p.m. today at the Emma Church of Christ with Tim Mills officiating. Burial will follow in the Ralls Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
Leona passed away on Tuesday, August 18, 2009 at the Floydada Rehabilitation and Care Center. She was born on October 19, 1917 in Abernathy to the late Rellie (Smith) and Henry Ellerd. On January 14, 1937, she married Rex Slater in Snyder He preceded her in death on February 8, 1980. She then married Campdon Lawson on March 26, 1994 in Lorenzo. He preceded her in death on September 19, 1999. A resident of Crosby County since 1952, Leona was a member of the Emma Church of Christ, the Ralls Senior Citizens and the VFW.
Leona was preceded in death by a grandson Scott Slater.
Survivors include two sons and their wives, Dwayne and Jo Slater of Amarillo and Tommy and Linda Slater of Odessa; a stepson, Cam Lawson, Jr. of Aurora, Colo.; a stepdaughter, Lisa Lu Strange of Florida; a brother, Walter Ellerd of Carrollton; four grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and three great-great grandchildren.
©Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, Thursday, August 20, 2009
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