RALLS (Special) — Services for Opal Sawyer, 56, of Hobbs, NM, are pending with Carter-Adams Funeral Home.She died at 8:30 p.m. Monday at Lea Regional Hospital in Hobbs after a brief illness.
She was a native of Becton. She married Marlin Sawyer Dec. 8, 1945, in Ralls. She moved to Hobbs one year ago from the Lubbock and Ralls area. She was a member of First United Methodist Church. She had worked for Furr's Cafeterias for the past seven years.
Survivors include her husband; her mother, Laura Carter of Ralls; two sons, Ronnie of Hobbs and Ray of Fort Worth; two daughters, Diane Moore of Lorenzo and Debbie King of Lubbock; a brother, W.W. Wells Jr. of Burnett; a sister, Daisy Heley of Albuquerque, NM; and nine grandchildren.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, February 1985
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
RALLS (Special) — Services for Marlin L. Sawyer 56, of Hobbs, NM, and formerly of Ralls, will be at 2 p.m. today in Ralls First United Methodist Church with elder Joe Jackson, of Cone, and the Rev. Kerry Tilley, of Idalou, officiating.
Burial will be in the Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home.
Sawyer was found dead at 7 p.m. Friday at the Cone Cemetery in Crosby County. Justice of the Peace Clyde Davis is withholding a ruling in the death.
He was born in Ralls and moved to the Hobbs area two years ago. He married Opal Wells on Dec. 8, 1945 in Ralls. She died in February 1985. He was a farmer.
Survivors include his mother, Ethel Sawyer of Floydada; two sons, Ronnie of Hobbs and Ray of Fort Worth; two daughters, Debbie King of Lubbock and Diane Moore of Lorenzo; a sister, Grace Ashley of Cone and nine grandchildren.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, March 9, 1986
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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