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Mrs. J.M. Cherry one of Lorenzo´s nonagenarians (ninety or over) is healthy, spry, energetic, and friendly, at the age of ninety-one. She lives in her own home in Lorenzo and seems to enjoy life very much. Her hobby is riding jet airplanes.
She is the last living member of a family of eleven children and says she misses the people she once knew and loved, but now all of them are gone.
Born June 29, 1885 at Bristol, in Ellis County, she moved to Hood County at the age of sixteen. She married John Melvin Cherry January 17, 1904.
In the early years the family moved to Texas County, Oklahoma. This is the middle county in the Oklahoma Panhandle. Pioneering days there are recalled when they lived in a half-dugout near the Texas line. Her son, Odell Cherry, recalls those days, how they went over in Texas to pick up cow chips off the Texas prairie to use for firewood.
Those were the days of real pioneering, she points out.
The Cherry´s moved to the Lorenzo community in October of 1924 and they resided on the family farm until 1969 when they moved into the town of Lorenzo. She says she loves the Lorenzo community and its people very much.
At age ninety-one she says she thinks she will make it to one hundred, if she can keep her good health.
With the help of Mrs. Bessie Byers, her housekeeper, she lives in her own home. At the time of this visit she had watched the new president take the oath of office and watching the inaugural.
Ready with her quick wit, I asked her where she went to church. "I go to the Baptist Church" she answered quickly and then added the question "Where do you go?" "Me too," I replied.
Her father served in the War between the States and walked home after the war. Part of the way he and a friend bought a mule and took turns riding it.
Later he was a cotton ginner. He was wounded in the war.
Mrs. Cherry is the mother of seven children, four daughters and three sons. The daughters are Inez Bryan of Midland, Sara Jane Kidwell of San Antonio, and Johnnie Eldredge of Crosbyton, and Jessie B. McDougal of LaJunta, Colorado. The sons are W.O. Cherry of Lorenzo, Mell Cherry of Lorenzo and Herman Cherry of Las Animas, New Mexico. Also she has twenty grandchildren. Tom Brian, an attorney, who lives in Lorenzo, with law offices in Ralls is a grandson.
Mrs. Cherry likes to ride airplanes, and quite often takes off on a jet to visit some of the children. Right now, as soon as it quits raining, she says, she is planning a trip to visit in San Antonio.
Where ever she goes, she makes friends. One of her special flying friends is a Braniff flying hostess, Julia Rooker of Dallas. They exchange letters and she always contacts the young lady when she is fixing to make a trip.
Lorenzo Newspaper
Source: Once Upon a Plain...Echoes of Lorenzo, by Wayne and Sydna Wallace
LORENZO (Special) — Services for John Melvin Cherry, 87, of Lorenzo, were to be at 2:30 p.m. today in First Baptist Church here.
The Rev. John C. Jenkins, pastor, was to officiate, assisted by the Rev. W.P. Brian of Odessa. Burial was to be in Lorenzo Cemetery directed by Carter Funeral Home of Ralls.
Cherry, a retired farmer, had resided in the Lorenzo area since 1924. He died about 9 p.m. Monday after a long illness. A native of Hood County, he moved to Lorenzo from Tolar.
Survivors include his wife, Vie; four daughters, Mrs. W.P. Brian of Odessa, Mrs. T.L. Kidwell of San Antonio, Mrs. Raymond Eldredge of McAdoo and Mrs. A.D. McDougal of Rocky Ford; Colo.; three sons, H.G. Cherry of Colorado, M.D. and W.O. Cherry, both of Lorenzo; 21 grandchildren and 32 great grandchildren.
Published in Lubbock Avalanche Journal, April 1, 1970
Submitted by Mel and Edna Cherry
LORENZO (Special) — Services for Annie Cherry, 102, of Lorenzo will be at 4 p.m. Wednesday in First Baptist Church with Dr. Fred Meeks, a Waylon Baptist University professor officiating.
Assisting will be the Rev. Jerry Golden, pastor of First Baptist Church.
Burial will be in Lorenzo Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
She died at 5:15 a.m. Monday in Crosbyton Clinic after a lengthy illness.
She was born in Bristol and moved from Hood County to Lorenzo in 1924. She married John Melvin Cherry on Jan. 17, 1904, in Tolar. He died in 1970 A son, W.O., died in 1984. She was a housewife and a member of First Baptist Church, where she taught Sunday school for several years. She was a member of the Eastern Star.
Survivors include two sons, Mell D. of Lorenzo and Herman G. of Las Animas, Colo.; four daughters, Inez Brian and Johnnie Eldredge, both of Crosbyton, Sarah Jane Kidwell of Lorenzo and Jessie McDougal of Lockesburg, Ark.; 21 grandchildren; 43 great-grandchildren; and 25 great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Jackie Randolph, Robert Swetnam, Jerry Swetnam, Ed Gray, Jerrel Greer and Harold Campbell.
Published in Lubbock Avalanche Journal, December 1, 1987
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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