Services for George Lee Stanford, Sr., 85, of Crosbyton were at 11:00 AM, Saturday, February 19, 2005 at the Crosbyton First Baptist Church with the Rev. Les Griffin, Rev. Mateo Rendon and the Rev. Scott Parrish officiating. Burial was at the Crosbyton Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home of Crosbyton.
He passed away Thursday, February 17, 2005 in Crosbyton.
He was born February 6, 1920 in Linden, Texas to W. T. and Mary Elizabeth (Ayers) Stanford the tenth of fourteen children.
On November 25, 1945 he married his lifelong love Madeleine Robison in Baltimore, Maryland. Madeleine makes her home in Crosbyton. He leaves behind a legacy of love in his son George Lee Stanford, Jr. and his wife Sylvia of McKinney, his daughter Myra Sue Stanford and her husband Fred of Lubbock, granddaughter Myra Jean Stanford Johnson, grandsons Derrick Robison Barber and Lute Seiber Barber and a great grandson Travis Ryan Johnson. Also surviving are five brothers; James A. Stanford of Amarillo, Tom Stanford of Red Oak, Cooper Stanford of Memphis, Tenn., Ed Stanford of Little Rock, Ark., and Dan Stanford of Linden, Texas and a sister, Sarah Beth Sims of Dandridge, Tenn.
George became a Christian at the age of six and joined the First Baptist Church. He attended and graduated from Linden High School, North Texas Agriculture College and Texas A&M University (1942) where he received a Bachelor of Science in Ag Engineering.
George served his country during WWII. He graduated from United States Naval Reserve Midshipman's School in New York, New York and was commissioned into the United States Naval Reserve. George served as a Deck Officer on the USS Chester and on the USS Duluth he was the Officer in Charge of catapulting aircraft off the ship. He served in both the Atlantic, and Pacific theaters of operation during WWII. He was discharged from service in November of 1945.
After his military service, George spent 40 years working in the Soil Conservation Service of the US Department of Agriculture. He made his home with his family in Spur and then in Crosbyton where he and Madeleine raised their family. They were active in the First Baptist Church and with the El Calvario Mission Church. George was so proud when Calvario became a self sustaining church and enjoyed watching it grow.
George and Madeleine continued serving the Lord in their retirement working as missionaries both on the home mission field and the foreign mission field. They worked in Arizona, New Mexico, Alaska, then in India and Bangladesh.
Thank you, Lord, for allowing us to be loved by a man as wonderful as George. You made him with Your divine hands to do Your work on earth. Your grace and earthly love were demonstrated every day in our "O'Daddy". Help us carry out his legacy daily by being the kind of reflection of God that he was. Thank you for bringing him home to heaven.
The Crosby County News & Chronicle, Thursday, February 24, 2005, page 9
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