Loyd and Annie lived in Jones County the first years of their married life. Annie´s parents the Phifers moved to McAdoo in 1920. Loyd and Annie stayed in Jones County for a few years. They lived in Bradshaw in 1938 when they made the move to McAdoo. All the children attended school there. Raymond married Lela Griffin on October 8, 1943. They have two children. Julia Faye Dean married Coy Powers. They live in McAdoo. Mary Katherine Dean is now Mrs. Ives. Both Annie and Loyd are deceased.Source: "Top of the Cap" by Mildred Shirley Jackson, Catclaw Publishing, ©1985
CROSBYTON (Special) - Services for Annie M. Dean, 80, of Artesia, N.M. will be at 3 p.m. today in the McAdoo United Methodist Church with the Rev.Bill Johnston, pastor of the Bernard Methodist Church in Holdenville, Okla., officiating. He will be assisted by the Rev. Lloyd Hearn of the McAdoo United Methodist Church.Burial will be in the McAdoo Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home of Crosbyton.
Mrs. Dean, a native of Kosse, died at 9 a.m. Friday in Good Samaritan Center in Artesia after a lengthy illness.
She married Loyd Dean in Anson in 1919, and he died in 1954. She moved to McAdoo in 1938, to Levelland in 1953 and to Artesia in 1969. She was a Methodist.
Survivors include a son, Raymond of Artesia; two daughters, Mary Ives of Roswell, N.M., and Julia Powers of McAdoo; three brothers, Leslie Phifer of El Paso and Emmitt and Willie Phifer, both of Lubbock; two sisters, Onie Wyatt of Levelland and Beulah Wooldridge of Roswell; six grandchildren; and seven great grandchildren.
Pallbeaers will be grandsons and nephews.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, Feb. 22, 1981
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