James Willie "Whit" Whitfield Jr. and Rosie Lee Emerson Whitfield
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RALLS (Special) — Services for Rosie Lee Whitfield, 82, of Ralls will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Ralls First Baptist Church with the Revs. Shirley Ray Anderson and William Watson officiating.

Burial will be in Ralls Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home.

She died Friday, May 5, 1995, at Methodist Hospital.

She was born April 23, 1913, in Montgomery.

She was a member of the Anderson Chapel, Church of God in Christ Church in Lorenzo. She was a cook at the Ralls Nursing Home and at several places in Amarillo. She moved to Ralls in 1968.

She married James Whitfield on Nov. 18, 1968.

Survivors include her husband; two sons, Raymond of Lorenzo and Ralph of Dallas; three daughters, Rose Maria Taylor and Janis Overra Whitfield, both of Lubbock, Toni Jonetta Adkinson of Wolfforth; a sister, Mary Alice Emerson of Amarillo; 14 grandchildren; and four great grandchildren.

©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, May 18, 1995
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes

James Whitfield Jr.Services for James "Whit" Whitfield, Jr., 86 of Ralls will be at 2:00 PM, Saturday, December 12, 2009 at the Ralls First Baptist Church. Burial will be in the Ralls Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.

Whit passed away on Saturday, December 5, 2009 at Lubbock Heart Hospital.

He was born May 10, 1923 in Trinidad to the late Mozell (Hubbard) and James Willie Whitfield, Sr. On November 18, 1968 he married Rosia Lee Emerson in Amarillo. She preceded him in death on May 5, 1995.

Whit was a member of the Shiloh Baptist Church in Ralls where he served as a deacon. He worked at Fred Shell Grain Co. in Ralls for 32 years as an elevator operator and superintendent.

He is preceded in death by a brother, R. L Whitfield.

Survivors include, two sons, Raymond of Ralls and Ralph of Garland; three daughters, Janis Whitfield of Ralls, Toni Adkison and Rose Marie Taylor both of Arlington; and a sister Nellie Collins of Hereford.

©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, December 11, 2009




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