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Funeral services for Robert Leslie Pickens, 85, were held Wednesday at 2 p.m. in the First United Methodist Church with church pastor.Rev. Eddie Allsup, officiating.A retired farmer, Mr. Pickens died December 6 at 12:45 p.m. in the Prairie Acres Nursing Home, Friona. Born in Sulphur Springs in 1896, he came to Dickens County in 1920. He was a veteran of World War I and a member of the Methodist Church.
He is survived by his wife, Emily Pickens, Spur; four daughters, Iona Deaton, Friona; Vi Pullen, Spur; Naomi Caplinger, Lubbock; and Bobbie Rae McDonald, Burton, Michigan; a brother, Glenn Pickens, Vernon; five grandchildren and ten great grandchildren. He is preceded in death by a daughter, Barbara Jean Pickens; one brother, Warren Pickens and a sister, Lutie Rogers.
Burial was in Spur Cemetery with Campbell Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
©The Texas Spur, December 9, 1982
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
Services for Emily Elizabeth Pickens, 91, were at 2 p.m. April 29, 1989 in the First United Methodist Church, Spur, Rev. Bruce Parks, pastor, officiated. He was assisted by Dr. Genoa Goad, pastor of the First Baptist Church, Spur.Mrs. Pickens died April 27, 1989 in Crosbyton Clinic Hospital following a lengthy illness. Burial was in Spur Memorial Cemetery under direction of Campbell Funeral Home.
A homemaker, she married Bob Pickens in Chico in 1918. He died in 1982. She was born December 14, 1897 in Cundiff. She had been a resident of Dickens County since 1918. She was a member of the Methodist Church.
She is survived by three daughters, Vi Pullen, Spur; Ione Deaton, Friona and Bobbie McDonald, Flint, Michigan; one daughter, Naomi Caplinger, preceded her in death in 1987; eight grandchildren and eleven great grandchildren.
Grandsons served as pallbearers.
©May 4, 1989
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay, transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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