LORENZO (Special) Services for Jimmy Dale Marlar, 59, of Lorenzo, Texas will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday (5 January 1993) in First Baptist Church with the Revs. Jerry Golden, pastor and Lee Roark, pastor of First United Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial in Lorenzo Cemetery will be directed by Carter-Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
Marlar died Sunday morning in Methodist Hospital in Lubbock after a lengthy illness.
He was born in Dimmitt and had lived in Lubbock for several years before moving to Lorenzo in 1971. He married Thelma Beadle on June 21, 1959, in Lorenzo. He was a retired lieutenant in the Lubbock Fire Department, of which he was a member for 22 years. He was a member of the Lubbock Firefighters Association and Texas Firefighters Association and held as associate degree in fire technology.
He served in the Lorenzo volunteer Fire Department and as an adviser to the Lorenzo High School Future Farmers of America chapter. He was a director of the Crosby County Stock Show and also had been engaged in farming. He was a building contractor and was a member of First Baptist Church. He was a U.S. Navy veteran of the Korean War.
Survivors include his wife; a son, Brad of Lorenzo; a daughter, Jamie of Lorenzo; his parents, Cody and Marie of Lorenzo; a brother, Bobby of Lorenzo; two sisters, Peggy (Mrs. Jimmy) Alred of Denver City and Patsy (Mrs. Herschel) McMillan of Lubbock; and three grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be J.L. Lewis, Lavon McAuley, Larry Wampler, L.T. Dycus, Leon Moore and Pat Yoakum.
The family suggests memorials to the Lubbock County or Crosby County American Cancer Society or the Hodges Cancer Center at Lubbock's Methodist Hospital.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal
Submitted by Donna English, January 4, 1993
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