Hansford County Obituaries

transcribed by Oneida Swickard Bynum

The Amarillo Daily News
January 2, 1958

Obituaries
page 26

Mrs. Nancy Ownbey Eaker

Spearman, Jan. 2 - Funeral services for Mrs. Nancy Ownbey Eaker, 38, native of Adobe Walls and member of a prominent North Plains ranch family, will be conducted at 2  p.m. Saturday in the Canadian Methodist church. Interment will be in Holt Cemetery, near Spearman, under the direction of Stickley Funeral Home of Canadian.

  Mrs. Eaker was killed at 4:15 p.m. Wednesday in a car accident near Alton, ILL., where she had lived the past 13 years. Her daughter, Martha, 4, was critically injured in the collision and is hospitalized at Alton.

  Relatives  said Mrs. Eaker was thrown from the car, but her husband, Dr. William Eaker, and three other children, Jimmy ,Donna and William Eaker escaped injury in the mishap.

  Mrs. Eaker, a registered nurse, was born Oct. 19, 1919, at Adobe Walls in Hutchison county and was reared in that area. She was graduated from Amarillo High School in 1938. she lived in Spearman until moving to Alton, IL, about 15 years ago.

   Survivors other than the husband and children include a twin brother, Robert J.Ownbey of Spearman and her mother Mrs. Jim Ownbey of Canadian.

  The body is being carried overland from Alton and is expected to arrive in Canadian Friday.

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