Services for Clyde G. Starrett, 77 and his grandson, Curtis Dwane Armstrong, 15, both of Spur were held Saturday at 3 p.m. in the First Baptist Church with Rev. Norris Taylor officiating, assisted by Leonard Sims, pastor of Pansy Baptist Church. Burial was in the Spur Cemetery directed by Campbell Funeral Home.Starrett was killed and Armstrong fatally injured about 12:30 p.m. Friday when their car was in collision with a tractor-trailer rig less than a mile Southeast of Post on U.S. 84.
The youth died at 3:15 in a Lubbock hospital.
Starrett had lived in Spur since March 1970, while his grandson moved there about a week ago.
Starrett's survivors include his wife, Eva; five daughters, Mrs. LaVerne Waldrop of 1323 28th St., Lubbock, Mrs. Melba Jackson of Big Spring, Mrs. LoNeta Reid of Hurst, Mrs. Vella Harris of Dickens, and Mrs. Ava Carlisle of Spur; a sister, Mrs. Joe Lambert of Hobbs; and four great grandchildren.
Young Armstrong was a lifetime resident of Lubbock before moving to Spur. He is survived by his mother Mrs. Carlisle, his father W.D. Armstrong of Dallas; a sister, Chris of Spur; and grandparents, Mrs. Starrett of Spur and Mrs. R.E. Armstrong of Lubbock.
©Crosbyton Review, August 19, 1971
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
A former longtime East Plains resident, Eva Bell Starrett, was claimed by death about 11 p.m. Sunday in Methodist Hospital in Lubbock. She was 86.Mrs. Starrett had been a resident of Lubbock Nursing Home.
Memorial services were at 3 p.m. Tuesday [September 7] in the Pansy Baptist Church. The Rev. O.L. DeWees, a Baptist minister, officiated.
Interment was made in Spur Cemetery. Grandsons served a pallbearers.[Eugene Harris, Dwain Harris, Rickey Jackson, John (Sonny) Reid, Lee Waldrep and Don Cagle.]
Born March 22, 1896, in Tate, GA, she moved to Johnson County as a child. She and Clyde Starrett, member of an early-day family of this area, were married Dec. 23, 1917, in Cleburne.
The Starretts resided in Crosby County prior to moving to Spur in 1970. Mr. Starrett died in 1971.
Mrs. Starrett was a longtime member of Pansy Baptist Church.
She is survived by five daughters, Laverne Waldrep and Ava Mauldin, both of Lubbock, Zella Harris of Afton, Melba Jackson of Big Spring and Loneta Reid of Houston; nine grandchildren; and 12 great grandchildren.
©Crosbyton Review, September 14, 1982
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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