CROSBYTON (Special) — Services for Donald Wooten, 70, of Crosbyton are pending with Adams Funeral Home.
Wooten died Monday afternoon in Methodist Hospital after a brief illness.
He was born in Floydada. He was a farmer. He married Juanita Hayhurst Sept. 5, 1953, in Lubbock. She died in 1972. He was a former member of the Crosbyton school board and was a member of the Crosby County Democratic Committee. He moved to Crosbyton in 1953.
Survivors include a son, John of Lubbock; a daughter, Andrea Wooten of San Francisco, Calif.; and a granddaughter.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, October 1984
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
A lengthy battle against illness was lost by Mrs. Donald (Juanita) Wooten about 7:15 p.m. Saturday. She succumbed in West Texas Hospital, Lubbock, where she had been a patient since November 22.
Mrs. Wooten was 50.
Farmers Union Insurance Agent in Crosbyton since 1957, Mrs. Wooten underwent major surgery several months ago.
Memorial rites were conducted at 3 p.m. Monday in First United Methodist Church here. The Rev. Lee Crouch of Petersburg, former Crosbyton minister, conducted the service. He was assisted by the Rev. Henry Salley, local First United Methodist Church pastor.
Interment was made in Crosbyton Cemetery. King Funeral Home directed arrangements.
A native of Chillicothe, she was married September 5, 1953 in Lubbock to Donald Wooten. The family had resided in this community since that time.
The deceased had been a Texas Farmers Union Blue Cross and Blue Shield director and on two different occasions was invited to serve on national Farmers Union advisory committees.
She was well known in Farmers Union circles across Texas.
She was a member of Mile High Club of National Farmers Union Insurance Companies; neighborhood chairman of Girl Scouts; past co-president of band boosters; member of Crosby Co. Green Thumb board; past secretary for Second District of the Federation of Music Clubs of Texas; past president of Harmony Club; chairman of the Crosby Co. Democratic Women; Secretary of the Board of the United Methodist Church; past president of Garden Club and advisor for Junior Harmony Club.
Her humanitarian acts toward the underprivileged had benefited dozens of person.
Survivors include her husband, Donald; a daughter, Andrea, and a son, John, both of the home; her father, John S. Hayhurst of Chillicothe; and one sister, Mrs. George H. Wheeler of Point Mugu, Calif.
Crosbyton Review, December 14, 1972
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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