LORENZO (Special) - Services for E. J. "Joe" Batcheller, 77 of Lorenzo will be at 11 a.m. Monday in First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Eugene Crane, pastor, the Rev. Jerry Golden, pastor of First Baptist Church, and Travis Boyd, minister at Lorenzo Chruch of Christ, officiating.
Burial will be in Lorenzo Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
He died at 8:15 a.m. Saturday in Lubbock´s Highland Hospital after a lengthy illness.
He was born in Tescott, Kan., and moved to Lorenzo in 1947. He married Sulta Hendrick on June 10, 1937, in Cameron. She died on June 26, 1963. He married Nannie Maye Terrell on Jan. 19, 1964, in Crosbyton. He was a past president of Lorenzo Medicare Golf Group and Lorenzo Co-op Gin.
He was a former member of Crosby County School Board, Lorenzo School Board, Plains Co-op Board, Lorenzo City Council and the Cotton Board. He was member and former administrative board member of First United Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife; five sons, Jerry Robertson, Jackie Robertson, both of Lorenzo, Max Dale Robertson of Waco, Gary Batcheller of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Ernie Batcheller of Ganado, Ariz.; a daughter, Jean Phillips of Lubbock; a brother, David of Bennington, Kan.; five sisters, Opal Carroll of Bennington, Kan., Etha Watts, Verneda Larson, Mary Disney, all of Salina, Kan., and Eileen Humpert of Winfield, Kan.; 12 grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, September 27, 1987
LORENZO (Special) - Services for Nannie Maye Batcheller, 73, of Lorenzo, will be at 2 p.m. today in First United Methodist Church with the Revs. Lee Roark, pastor, and Bill Watson, a retired Methodist minister, officiating.
Burial will be in Lorenzo Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
Mrs. Batcheller died at 2 p.m. Wednesday in her home following a lengthy illness. She was under hospice care.
She was born in Crosby County and married E.J. "Joe" Batcheller on June 24, 1990, in Minneapolis, Kan. She was a homemaker and a member of First United Methodist Church. She was a charter member of the Lorenzo Women´s Golf Association. A son, Jackie Robertson, died April 20, 1988.
Survivors include two daughters, Jean Phillips of Lubbock and Diane Wilkins of Cut Bank, Mont; four sons, Jerry Robertson of Lorenzo, Max Dale Robertson of Waco, Gary Batcheller of Oklahoma City, Okla., and Ernie Batcheller of Ganado, Ariz.; a brother, J.R. Terrell of Ralls; 13 grandchildren; and nine great grandchildren.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, April 30, 1993
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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