Dickens County Biographies

Howard and Juddie McKnight

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• Section South
• Row 1
• Plot 24 and 25

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• Mrs. McKnight Buried January 9 In Dicknes

Funeral services will be held Thursday at 3 p.m. in the First Baptist church, Dickens for Juddie Irene McKnight, 66. She had been a resident of Dickens since 1898.

Rev. Harmon Bishop will officiate at the service.

Mrs. McKnight died at her home in Dickens January 6. She was a member of the Missionary Baptist Church.

Survivors include her husband, Howard F. McKnight, three sons, Charles McKnight, Matador; James C. McKnight and Tommy R. McKnight, both from Vega; three daughters, Thelma Collins, Chasta, Calif.; Juddie F. Adams, Amarillo, three sisters, Mary Lu McKnight, Midland; Adel Petty, Plainview; Willis Louise Laster, Dickens; 25 grandchildren.

Pallbearers will include Pat Robinson, Robert Rex Robinson, Louis Harvey, Fay Sloough, Jim Talbott, Johnny Koonsman, Dan Shaw and Russel Talbott.

Burial will be in Dickens Cemetery.

©The Texas Spur, January 9, 1964

• Howard McKnight

Funeral services were held Tuesday at 4 p.m. in the First Baptist Church, Dickens, for Howard Franklin McKnight, 78. Rev. Ken Andress, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Snyder, officiated, assisted by Rev. Rod Redard, Dickens.

Mr. McKnight died March 9 in the Cogdell Memorial Hospital, Snyder. He resided in Dickens County from 1924 to 1969 when he moved to Snyder. He was a member of the Baptist Church. He had been engaged in farming and trucking.

Survivors include his wife, Laura McKnight, Snyder; three daughters, Mrs. Thelma Collins, Dickens; Mrs. Alma Benzler, Redding, California; Mrs. Juddie Faye Adams, Amarillo.

One step-daughter, Gayle Burleson, Oklahoma City; two sons, Charles McKnight, Lubbock and Carlton McKnight, Vega; seven step-sons, Norman Fraley, Midland; Neil and Dean Fraley, both of Hobbs, NM; Morris Fraley, Big Spring; Harold, David and Mickey Fraley, all of Odessa; 30 grandchildren and 23 great grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Lewis Harvey, Johnny Koonsman, Cecil Meadors, Wallace Conway.

©The Texas Spur, March 13, 1975

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