Obituaries

Clifford Dodd

Clifford Dodd

Jan 8, 2011

Clifford Deon Dodd, 67 of Melrose, NM passed away on Saturday, January 8, 2011. Visitation will be from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. on Tuesday, January 11 at SteedTodd Funeral Home, 800 E. Manana, in Clovis. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday, January 12th at the Melrose Church of Christ with Grady Bright and Bob Bennett...

Willard O'Rear

Willard O'Rear

Jan 5, 2011

Willard Duane ORear, 84, of Melrose, died Wednesday, January 5, 2011 at Roosevelt General Hospital in Portales, NM. He was born October 26, 1926, in Happy, Texas, to Rainey and Ruth ORear. The family moved to the Ranchvale community when Willard was about four years old. He attended school at Ranchvale until he entered the Navy when he was...

Noel Pickard

Noel Pickard

Jan 4, 2011

Noel Hammond Pickard, age 66, of Clovis, died Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at his home in Clovis, NM. He was born on February 3, 1944 to John and Bessie Clinton Pickard in Lafayette, Georgia. Mr. Pickard has been a Clovis resident since 1957, and was a diesel mechanic for a trucking company. He is survived by his wife, Alice...

Floyd Snelson

Floyd Snelson

Jan 4, 2011

Floyd Calvin Snelson, age 86, of Clovis, died Tuesday, January 4, 2011 at Retirement Ranch in Clovis. He was born on November 23, 1924 to Jessie Calvin and Willie Ellen Scott Snelson in Clovis, New Mexico. Mr. Snelson was a television technician, and is survived by his brother, Billy Snelson of Clovis. Services will be held at a later...

Mary Melugin

Mary Melugin

Jan 2, 2011

Mary F. Melugin, age 89, of Clovis, died on Sunday, January 2, 2011 at Retirement Ranch in Clovis, New Mexico. She was born on March 8, 1920 to Mary Frances Lee and Trigg Lawson in Clovis. She is survived by two sons, Wayne Mohon of Dimmitt, Texas, and Tyrone Luck of Pueblo West, Colorado one daughter Cynthia Lee Mohon...

Pat Hill

Pat Hill

Jan 1, 2011

Patrick Pat Hill, died Saturday January 1, 2011 at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis, NM. He was born in Donoya, Oklahoma on July 11, 1925. He was raised in the Oklahoma Oil Fields. He went to grade school at Donoya and Fairfax. He attended high school at Fairfax, Chouteau, and Wewoka, Oklahoma and Hartman,Arkansas. They were living in...

Frances Gleason

Frances Gleason

Dec 31, 2010

Frances Gleason, 86, of Clovis, New Mexico, died Friday, December 31, 2010 at Clovis Healthcare and Rehabilitation Center. She was born on January 24, 1924 to Carrie Scott and Jacob Petry in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. She is survived by three daughters, Dawn Gonzales of Amarillo, Texas, Darlene Kaprelian of Romeoville, Illinois and Debra Barela of Clovis, New Mexico and two...

Danny Coburn

Danny Coburn

Dec 31, 2010

Danny Lee Coburn, age 47, of Melrose, New Mexico, passed from this life Friday, December 31, 2010 at his home in Melrose. He was born on July 8, 1963 to Owen Daniel and Rose Barr Coburn in Farmington, New Mexico. He was preceded in death by his dad, Owen Daniel Coburn and by his grandparents, Ivan and Nadine Barr....

Winnie Moore

Winnie Moore

Dec 27, 2010

Long time resident, Winnie Ethel Brown Moore, age 100, passed from her life on December 27, 2010, to be with her heavenly father. She was the 11th child born to Joseph and Margaret America Garner on October 20, 1910 in Rockwood, Texas. She attended high school in Melvin and Coleman, Texas. She married Clarence R. Brown on December 17,...

Opal Yell

Opal Yell

Dec 24, 2010

Opal Inez Lewis was born on October 27, 1935 to Maggie Lue Penner and Dave Pickens Lewis in Sayre, Oklahoma, where Opal was a member of First Baptist Church. She married Buck Yell at the young age of fourteen in Cheyenne, OK on September 30, 1950. Their family was complete with four children by the age of nineteen. In...

Megan Mcgimpsey

Megan Mcgimpsey

Dec 21, 2010

Services for Megan Riley McGimpsey, age 4, of Broadview, New Mexico will be held Friday, December 24, 2010 at 1:00 p.m. at SteedTodd Chapel with Josh Bold officiating. Burial will follow at the Grady Cemetery in Grady, New Mexico. Pallbearers will be Steve Bailey, Danny Riley, Gary Swann, and Rick Meyers. Honorary Pallbearers will be Jeremy Riley, Dennis Dilbeck,...

Gloria Joy

Gloria Joy

Dec 21, 2010

Gloria Joy, 68, of Clovis died on Tuesday, December 21, 2010 at her home. She was born on February 4, 1942 to Jessie Romero and Alfredo Armijo in Clovis, NM. Gloria attended school at Our Lady of Guadalupe and Sacred Heart Catholic Churches. She married Ronald Joy on August 1, 1959 in Clovis, and moved with him during his...

Gerald Williams

Gerald Williams

Dec 16, 2010

Gerald C. Williams of Clovis, NM, died at the age of 80 on Thursday, December 16, 2010, following a lengthy illness. Gerald was born in Clovis, NM, on December 30 1929. He graduated from Clovis High School in 1947. He then served in the U.S. Navy during WWII and later during the Korean Conflict. Gerald received a Bachelor of...

Michael Hardegree

Michael Hardegree

Dec 15, 2010

Michael J Hardegree, age 43, of Clovis, NM, died Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at his home in Clovis after a courageous two and a half month battle with cancer. He was born on May 11, 1967 to Glenda Hill and Ray Hardegree in Clovis. Michael was a Little League Allstar in the American League in Clovis, and played football...

Christina Vargas

Christina Vargas

Dec 14, 2010

Christina Ann Vargas was born October 5, 1940 in Whitter, California to Forrest and Gertrude Pollette. She passed away Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at her home in Clovis, New Mexico. Christina was one of a kind. She was a wonderful mother, grandmother, greatgrandmother and friend, always putting other before herself. She will be dearly missed and loved. Services for...

Angel Ortiz

Angel Ortiz

Dec 14, 2010

Angel Yisrael Ortiz, infant, was born and died on Tuesday, December 14, 2010 at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis, NM. Survivors include his parents, Maria Galvan and David Ortiz, Sr. both of Clovis, NM sister, Milagros Ortiz grandparents, Virginia Rodriguez of Clovis, NM, and Alberto and Mercedes Ortiz of Durango, Mexico and greatgrandparents, David and Mary Luna of...

Thomas Sheehan

Thomas Sheehan

Dec 11, 2010

Thomas Sheehan age 85 of Clovis passed away Saturday, December 11, 2010 at St. Vincent Hospital in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Thomas was born September 25, 1925 in Waynesville, North Carolina to Earl and Etta Mehassey Sheehan. Thomas served in the United States Navy where he was very proud of his service serving in WWII, Korean Conflict and Vietnam....

Bertha Welch

Bertha Welch

Dec 7, 2010

Bertha Arilla Welch, 93, went home to be with her Lord and Savior on December 7, 2010. Bertha was born to Walter and Pearl Stout Sheridan on December 13, 1916, on the family farm near Grady, New Mexico. She graduated from Clovis High School, then worked as a beautician in a local shop and as a secretarybookkeeper for Raton...

Arvin Wood

Arvin Wood

Dec 2, 2010

Arvin Ben Wood, age 94, of Broadview, NM, passed away Thursday, December 2, 2010 at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis, NM. He was born to J.O. and Ruth Wood at their home north of Broadview, NM on November 23, 1916. His first school was New Hope, to which he and his brother, Horace rode a horse. He also...

Dorothy Bell

Dorothy Bell

Nov 29, 2010

Dorothy Nadene Bell, age 88, passed from this life on Monday, November 29, 2010 at Retirement Ranch in Clovis, NM, after an extended illness. She was born to Kenneth and Lorene Vandevender near Grady, NM, on March 15, 1922. She grew up near and in Grady, graduated from Grady High School and attended two years of college at Portales,...