Obituaries

Leonora Reyna

Mar 25, 2006

Service Funeral Steed Todd Chapel 800 E. Manana Blvd Clovis, NM  88101 Thursday, March 30, 2006 10:00 a.m. Cemetery Mission Garden of Memories 7th & Rio Clovis, NM  88101

Gordon Hayes

Mar 20, 2006

Gordon Wayne Hayes, 75, of Clovis, died Monday, March 20, 2006, at Plains Regional Medical Center. Born Oct. 24, 1930, in Barberton, Ohio, to Homer and Myrtle Hayes, he retired from the Air Force as a senior master sergeant after 30 years of service. He was a life member of Clovis Elk's Lodge 1244, where he served as secretary....

Betty Donaghe

Mar 18, 2006

Mrs. Betty Donaghe, age 79, of Clovis, New Mexico passed away on March 18, 2006brat Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis. She was born on January 26, 1927 in Oswalt, Oklahoma to Floy and Laura Cross.brbrMrs. Donaghe had been a resident of Clovis all of her life. She cooked at the restaurant in the bowling alley for many years....

Melvin Fitzgerald

Mar 14, 2006

Melvin Carrol Fitzgerald, 81, of Clovis, died Tuesday, March 14, 2006, in Clovis.brBorn Aug. 21, 1924, in Tokio, Texas, to John E. and Dillie Smith Fitzgerald, he grew up on a ranch near Plains, Texas. He graduated from Plains High School and attended Texas Tech College. He married Bettie Kathleen Stamps on April 25, 1943, in Tokio.brbrHe joined the...

Dora Gallegos-Chavez

Mar 13, 2006

Dora Gallegos-Chavez, 83, died Monday, March 13, 2006 at Alta Vista Regional Hospital in Las Vegas. She was born April 5, 1922 in Borica, NM to Bernard Gallegos and Lucia Trujillo Gallegos. She married Juan Chavez on September 10, 1939, in Ft. Sumner, NM. Family said she was a loving mother, grandmother, wife, daughter, aunt, sister-in-law, and friend, and...

Thomas Box

Mar 10, 2006

Thomas Leon Box, of Clovis, went to be with the Lord on Friday, March 10, 2006, a day after his 70th birthday. Leon was married to Genevieve K. Jackson for 35 years and they were long time residents of the Grady community, where they farmed and ranched. They attended the Church of the Nazarene in Broadview, New Mexico. Leon...

Jeanette Ford

Mar 8, 2006

Jeanette Ford, 64, of Farwell, died Wednesday, March 8, 2006, at Covenant Medical Center, in Lubbock.brShe was born Oct. 22, 1941, in Clovis to Tom and Kate Atchley Lindop. She grew up in the Oklahoma Lane community and graduated from Farwell High School. She married Barthell Ford Dec. 23, 1960, in Farwell. After they married she helped her husband...

Hurshel Harding

Feb 25, 2006

Hurshel Rudolph Harding, 76, died Saturday, Feb 25, 2006 in Taylor County, Texas. He was born Oct. 22, 1929, south of Texico to R. Nath and Ethel Harding. He graduated from Farwell High School in 1947. He attended Texas Tech for three years, where he was a member of Saddle Tramps, then obtained a law degree in 1954 from...

Jimmy Gay

Feb 16, 2006

Jimmy V. Gay, 75, died Thursday, Feb. 16, 2006, at Farwell Convalescent Center. He was born to Reba Leona Raburn and Bonnie Britt Gay on May 27, 1930, in Bovina, Texas. He attended and graduated from Clovis High School in 1948. He went to work for Empy Gressett at the age of 10. He was a welder in the...

Earl Ford

Feb 14, 2006

Earl A. Ford, 78, of Clovis died Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2006, at Plains Regional Medical Center.brbrHe was born Sept. 9, 1927, in Evansville, Ind., to Earl Anderson and Gladys Hayhurst Ford. He married Ruth Mendoza on Jan. 7, 1947, in El Paso, Texas. He was a longtime Clovis resident. He came to Clovis to set up the West Texas...

Billy Derrick

Feb 5, 2006

Billy Lloyd Derrick, 62, of Portales died Sunday, Feb. 5, 2006, at Plains Regional Medical Center.brHe was born to Frank and Ina V. Belyeu-Derrick on Jan. 15, 1944, in Roswell.brbrHe married Sarah Lee Derrick on May 18, 1963. She died in 1978. Family members said he was a true cowboy. His profession included managing farms, cattle doctor, breaking and...

Charles Hancock

Feb 4, 2006

Charles S. Hancock, 63, of Clovis, died Friday, Feb. 4, 2006, at Plains Regional Medical Center. He was born May 24, 1942, in Greenville, Mich. He came to Clovis in 1998. He enjoyed wood crafting, being outdoors, hunting and fishing, family members said. He served two terms in Vietnam and was a retired gunnery sergeant from the United States...

Loretta Dudley

Jan 26, 2006

Mrs. Loretta Faye Dudley, 59, of Clovis died Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006, at her home. She was born Feb. 11, 1946, in Portales to Clemmons and Annie Capps Swann. She was a longtime resident of Clovis. Moving to Clovis from Portales as a young girl. She was a member of Prince Street Baptist Church and family members said she...

Mary Pinkston

Jan 26, 2006

Mrs. Mary Lou Pinkston, 83, of Melrose died Thursday, Jan. 26, 2006, at Plains Regional Medical Center.brShe was born Aug. 17, 1922, in Trent, Texas, to Issac Alien and Ida Kelly Bright. She was a longtime resident of the Melrose community. She married J.B. Pinkston on Dec. 9, 1945. in Melrose. She and her husband farmed together for many...

Margaret Riley-Brewer

Jan 25, 2006

Margaret Ann Riley Brewer, 66, of Clovis, died Wednesday, January 25, 2006, at her home. She was born March 13, 1939, to Leo Riley and Alice Riley Yourell, in Clovis. She married Bill Brewer on August 21, 1956 in Clovis. M.A. was a fun-loving, warm, and quick-witted woman who touched many lives with her love and caring and unending...

Wanda Nuckolls

Jan 24, 2006

Wanda Dorice Nuckolls, 74, of Las Vegas, New Mexico passed away on January 24, 2006 at Las Vegas Medical Center Nursing Home in Las Vegas, New Mexico. She was born on April 23, 1931 in Dibble, Oklahoma to Harris and Dollie Powell HigginsbrShe is preceded in death by her parents; and three sisters, Virginia Augusta, Rosezell Putnam, and Maydell...

Bonnie Battles

Jan 22, 2006

Bonnie Jean Battles, 78, died Sunday, January 22, at her home in Melrose, New Mexico. She was born on May 21, 1927 in Grand Island, Nebraska to Walter and Effie May Williams.brbrBonnie was a very caring person, opening her home to the many cats and dogs who she loved so dearly. She owned and operated an antique store in...

Ruth Brittain

Jan 20, 2006

Mrs. Ruth Wesley Brittain, 86, of Melrose, died Friday, January 20, 2006, at Laurel Plains Healthcare. She was born May 20, 1919, in Quay County, to Welsey A. and Effie Good Stockton. She was a lifelong resident of the Forrest and Melrose communities. She was the city clerk of Melrose for many years. She was a member of First...

Evelyn Hazelton

Jan 14, 2006

Evelyn Hazelton, 87, of Clovis, died Saturday, Jan. 14, 2006, at her home. She was born Nov. 21, 1918, in Ricardo, NM to David and Nola Bradford. She was the, daughter of a share-cropper cotton farmer and she learned a strong work ethic young, family members said. Dragging a cotton sack or swinging a hoe in a hot west...

Mae Purselley

Jan 14, 2006

Mae Purselley, 101, of Farwell died Saturday, Jan. 14, at the Farwell Convalescent Center.brShe was born April 8, 1904, in Hatfield, Ark., to Wilson and Nora Davis. She married C.B. Purselley on March 12, 1922, in Texico. She moved to-New Mexico in 1909 with her parents, three sisters, and two brothers. They homesteaded 15 miles north of Texico, near...