Services for Lester Caraway, 69, of Lubbock were at 10 a.m. Wednesday, February 7, 2001 at Ralls First Baptist Church with the Rev. Alton Pope of Post officiating.
Burial was in the Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
He died on Saturday, Feb. 3, 2001, at his Lubbock residence.
He was born on Feb. 11, 1931, in Portales, N.M. He married Linda Clements on Jan. 19, 1957, in Petersburg.
He served in the U.S. Marine Corps on active duty from 1952 to 1955, then as an inactive member of the U.S. Marine Corps Reserves until 1960. He was a veteran of the Korean War and a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American Veterans and the American Legion. He helped organize the Veterans Room at the Ralls Historical Museum. He farmed in the Farmer community from 1957 to 1976 and sold farm equipment from 1977 to 1983. He moved to Ralls in 1944 and to Lubbock in 1988.
He was preceded in death by a daughter, Leslie Gayle Caraway who died August 22, 1965.
Survivors include his wife, Linda Caraway of Lubbock; two sons, Harold Wayne Caraway of Elk City, Okla., and Tharon Glen Caraway of Austin; two brothers, Bob Caraway of Clyde and John Caraway of Durant, Okla.; and two sisters, Lura Tennison of Clyde and Jimmie Moore of Friendswood.
©The Crosby County News & Chronicle, Friday, February 9, 2001, page 6
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