RALLS (Special) - Services for M.L. "Matthew": Sanders Jr., 68, of Lubbock will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Jim Cope, pastor of Community Church in Muleshoe, officiating.
Assisting will be the Rev. Glenn Harlin, pastor of Northside Baptist Church in Odessa.
Burial will be in Ralls Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home.
He died at 12:30 a.m. Sunday in Methodist Hospital after a lengthy illness.
He was born in Iola and moved to Crosby County in 1924. He married LaHonda Barr on Oct. 22, 1939, in the Robertson community. He farmed in Crosby County for 48 years and had served with the National Guard. He served as a county precinct judge for six years and was a county commissioner for eight years until 1981, when he moved to Lubbock to retire. He also served on the Crosby County South Plains Association of Governments in Lubbock, the Ralls school board and the Ralls Chamber of Commerce. He was a director of the Crosby County West Texas Pioneers and Old Settlers reunion, and a member of the Crosby County Historical Commission. He was a member of Ralls First Baptist Church, where he served as a Sunday school teacher.
Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Penny Burns of Lubbock; a sister, Bonnie Harlin of Odessa; and a grandchild.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, August 1, 1988
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
Services for LaHonda Jo (Barr) Sanders, 87, of Lubbock and formerly of Ralls will be held at 10:30 AM Wednesday, January 2, 2008, in the Ralls First Baptist Church with Rev. Glenn Harlin officiating. Burial will follow in the Ralls Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
Mrs. Sanders went to heaven on Saturday, December 29, 2007. LaHonda was a godly woman and loving mother to many. She will be greatly missed by all who knew her. LaHonda Jo Barr was born June 27, 1920 in Altus, Oklahoma to the late Carl Clenton and Rubie Mae (Shelton) Barr. Her family moved to the Robertson, Texas Community near Lorenzo in 1934.
On October 22, 1939 she married Matthew Lee "M. L." Sanders, Jr. in the Robertson Community. She and her husband farmed South of Ralls for 45 years before retiring in 1983. He preceded her in death July 31, 1988.
In Ralls, LaHonda served as director for the West Texas Pioneer and Old Settlers Reunion, as a board member of the Crosby County Library and the Ralls Historical Museum and as Vice President of the Ralls Study Club. She was chairman of the Crosby County Historical Commission from 1975 to 1979. In 1978 she was honored with the District Outstanding Club Woman Award and in 1979 the Ralls Chamber of Commerce named her Woman of the Year. She moved to Lubbock in 1981 from the Savage Community near Ralls.
She is preceded in death by a sister Carlene Petersen.
Survivors include a daughter Penny Burns of Lubbock, a brother; Lewis Barr and his wife Mozelle of San Antonio, 2 grandchildren; Jay Burns and wife Marybeth of Morgan Mills and Logan Burns of Lubbock and a great granddaughter; Harley Grace Burns of Morgan Mills.
The family will receive friends Tuesday from 4 PM to 5 PM, at Adams Funeral Home in Ralls.
Along with her family, the love of LaHonda's life was Jesus. She was a great woman of prayer and sowed faithfully into the mission fields. It was LaHonda's wish that in lieu of flowers that gifts be made to long time missionary friends Bill Patterson (India) and the McCoys (Mexico) at Mount Abarim P. O. Box 173067 Arlington, Texas 76003, or the Lubbock International House of Prayer at LIHOP P. O. 93525 Lubbock, Texas 79464.
©Crosby County News, Friday, December 28, 2007, page 7
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