Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie Ola Eldredge, a resident of Lubbock since 1943, were held at 2:30 p.m. Saturday in Crosbyton Church of Christ. Leonard Dennis, minister in the Edmonson Church of Christ at Lubbock, officiated.
Mrs. Eldredge died about 3 p.m. Thursday in Crosbyton Clinic hospital. She had been employed by F.W. Woolworth Co. in Lubbock four years.
She was a member of Church of Christ 51 years and moved to Lubbock from McAdoo, where she had lived since 1919.
Survivors include her husband, Jim; a daughter, Mrs. W. W. Buckner, Lubbock; two sons, Raymond, McAdoo, and Byron, Abernathy; 7 sisters, 2 brothers, 13 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
Burial was in Crosbyton Cemetery under the direction of King Funeral Home.
Crosbyton Review, April 20, 1961
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
Jim David Eldredge, a former longtime McAdoo resident, was found dead Monday at his home, 604 Walnut in Lubbock. Mr. Eldredge was 80.
Memorial services were conducted at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 31, in the King Funeral Home Chapel here. Leonard Dennis, minister of the McAdoo Church of Christ, and Loyd Hall, minister of the Crosbyton Church of Christ, conducted rites.
Grandsons served as pallbearers.
Interment was in the Crosbyton Cemetery, under direction of King Funeral Home.
Born March 16, 1894 in East Texas, Jim Eldredge moved to McAdoo in 1910 from East Texas. He and the former Minnie Ola West were married Dec. 13, 1913. Mrs. Eldredge preceded her husband in death April 13, 1961.
The couple moved to Lubbock in 1943. He was a retired truck driver.
Mr. Eldredge joined the McAdoo Church of Christ as a boy.
Survivors include two sons, Raymond Eldredge of Crosbyton and Ed Eldredge of Abernathy; one daughter, Mrs. Martha Helen Buckner of Lubbock; two brothers, B. F. Eldredge and Willie Eldredge, both of McAdoo; one sister, Mrs. Ola Wallace of McAdoo; 14 grandchildren; and 14 great grandchildren.
The Crosbyton Review, January 2, 1975
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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