Curtis Crump Childress was born in Red River County February 18, 1904. He moved to Dickens County in 1922 with his parents, John and Dora Childress , two brothers: Bud and Harvey, three sisters: Carne, Irene and Cora. They lived at West End and were farmers.
Curtis married Gladys Irene Jones December 6, 1924 at Dickens. Gladys was born December 25, 1903. She came to Dickens County in 1912 with her parents, John and Zenobia Jones, two brothers: Buran and Clark; two sisters, Flora and Ethel. They farmed in the Red Mud Community.
Curtis and Gladys made their home on a farm in the Red Mud Community. They had three children: one son, Don (Chili) and two daughters Imogene and Johnnie. They moved to Spur in 1942. Curtis became a carpenter painter and paperhanger.
... by Imogene Childress HarrisonSource: Dickens County History...its Land and People © Dickens Historical Commission; Printer: Craftsman Inc. Lubbock, Texas 1986
Funeral services for Gladys Irene Childress, 82, were held February 27 at 2 p.m. in the Highway 70 Church of Christ with Joe Burks, Lubbock, officiating, assisted by W.H. (Bill) McLeod, Lubbock.Mrs. Childress died about 5:30 p.m. February 25, 1986 in Methodist Hospital, Lubbock. Born December 25, 1903 in Stonewall County, the former Gladys Irene Jones married Curtis Crump Childress in Dickens on December 6, 1924. He died on March 29, 1983.
A homemaker, she had lived in Dickens County since the early part of her life. She was a member of the Church of Christ. She moved to Lubbock in 1960.
She is survived by one son, Don Childress, Clyde; two daughters, Imogene Harrison, Lubbock and Johnnie O´Guinn, Lubbock; one sister, Ethel Stockton, Hobbs, NM and six grandchildren and 15 great grandchildren.
Burial was in Red Mud Cemetery under the direction of Campbell Funeral Home.
©The Texas Spur, February 1986
From the scrapbook of Thelma Kimmel Scott
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