Source: Adams Funeral Home
Transcribed by Bettye Odom
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CROSBYTON (Special) - Graveside services for Billy Dee Collier, 68, of Jasper will be today in Crosbyton Cemetery with George Johnson, pastor of Primitive Baptist Church in Crosbyton, officiating.Burial will be under direction of Adams Funeral Home.
Collier died Wednesday, Nov. 27, 1996, at Trinity Memorial Hospital in Trinity.
He was born Jan. 29, 1928, in Crosbyton. He married Billie Ruth Parker on Jan. 11, 1951, in Clovis, N.M. He graduated from Crosbyton High School and Texas Tech. He moved to Abilene from Crosbyton, and he was a member of Abilene First United Methodist Church. He was a U.S. Navy veteran
He was an accountant. He was a former manager of Abtex Beverage Co. in Abilene.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Jerry of Jasper and Jimmy of Orange; a daughter Lesa Harris of Thornton, Colo.; a brother, David of Granbury; and eight grandchildren.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, Nov. 30, 1996
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
Billie Ruth Parker and Billy Dee Collier Are Married at Clovis
Miss Billie Ruth Parker, of Lubbock Memorial hospital, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. W.E. Parker of Rotan, and Billy Dee Collier, student at Texas Technological college, Lubbock, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. Dee Collier of Crosbyton, were married Thursday evening, Jan. 11, in Clovis, N. Mex.
The double ring ceremony was colemnized at 7 p.m. in the parsonage of the Methodist church by the pastor.
The bridge chose for her wedding a luggage brown gabardine suit with matching accessories. Her corsage was a pink orchid.
Attending the wedding were David Collier of Texas Tech, brother of the groom, and Pug Hammons, also of Texas Tech.
After a trip to various points in New Mexico, the couple will be at home in Lubbock.
The bride is a graduate of Rotan High school, and at the time of her wedding was in nurse's training in the Lubbock Memorial hospital.
The groom is a graduate of the Crosbyton High school and after serving two years in the United States Navy, will take his degree with the 1951 Texas Tech graduating class in June. Besides his college work, he is employed in the Lubbock city office.
The Crosbyton Review, Thursday, January 18, 1951
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