Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon at 2:30 p.m. in the First Baptist Church for a retired Baptist Preacher, Garlon (Dock) Love, 65. Rev. Love died in Big Spring on Nov. 2.Rev. J.R. Williams, Stanton, officiated and was assisted by Rev. Odas Pierce, Kalgary.
He had pastured the following churches: Steele Hill, Bethel Baptist, Lower and Upper Red Mud, Soldier Mound, Double Mountain and Muleshoe.
He came to Dickens County in 1914 and resided in Red Mud. He moved to Spur in 1947. He married the former Ruby Witt in Kalgary in 1921.
Surviving along with his wife, are three daughters: Mrs. Otis Smith, Amarillo; Mrs. Carrol (Dock) Jones, Denver City and Mrs. Claude Kitchens, Dallas; one son, Charles Love; one sister, Mrs. Elmer Mauldin, Plainview and eight grandchildren.
Pallbearers included Elmer D. Hagins, Cleo Murray, Thurmond Moore, Henry Slack, A.A. Fry and Thedford Fry.
Burial was in Red Mud Cemetery.
©The Texas Spur November 7, 1963
Transcribed by Becky Hodges, September 2004
Graveside services for Ruby O. Love, 89, of Spur were held at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 27, 1991, in Red Mud Cemtery with the Rev. Carl Coffey, pastor of Bethel Baptist Church, officiating.Burial was under direction of Campbell Funeral Home.
Mrs. Love died at 3:25 a.m. Friday, Oct. 25, 1991, in Crosbyton Clinic Hospital after a lengthy illness.
She was born in McClennen County and was a longtime resident of Dickens County. She married the Rev. "Doc" Love on Sept. 3, 1921, in Dickens County. He died in 1963. She had worked in school cafeterias for many years. She was a Baptist. A daughter, Beatrice Mobley, died in 1987.
Survivors include a son, Charles of Austin; two daughters, Lavern Jones of Monahans and Nelda Jo Hudson of Greenville; two brothers, Lois Witt of Crosbyton and Dee Witt of Brownsville; two sisters, Estelle "Mazie" Maze of Lubbock and Dorotha Drennen of Martin; 10 grandchildren; 19 great-grandchildren; and 3 great-great-grandchildren.
©Crosby County News & Chronicle, October 31, 1991
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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