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Deloris Pentecost
LAWN -- Alvera Deloris Pentecost, 80, died Monday in an Abilene nursing home.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Lawn Baptist Church with Rev. Price Mathieson officiating. Burial will be in Dewey, directed by Fry-Bartlett Funeral Home of Tuscola.
Mrs. Pentecost was born in Opland where she attended school. She lived in Abilene and Gouldbusk before moving to Lawn in 1947. She was a seamstress for a clothing manufacturer in Abilene for 12 years. She also worked at Lawn Nursing Home for three years and retired in 1977. She married C.B. Pentecost in Lawn in 1936. Her husband preceded her in death. She was a member of Lawn Baptist Church.
Survivors include one son, Dalton Pentecost of Abilene; three daughters, Janice LaBaume of Palestine, Shirley Jones of Abilene, and Nadine McMillan of Mason; two brothers, Dutch Pierce of Dumas and Charlie Pierce of Tucson, Ariz.; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
Memorials may be sent to Hospice of the Big Country, 3113 Oldham Lane, Abilene, 79602.
(Published September 2, 1997)
Leota Byrd Handy
BROWNWOOD -- Leota Byrd Handy, 74, died Sunday at Brownwood Regional Medical Center.
Services will be at 1 p.m. Wednesday at the Davis-Morris Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. J.A. McDaniel officiating. Interment will be at Eastland Memorial Park.
Mrs. Handy was born in Brown County and worked as a bookkeeper for Citizens Bank in Weatherford. She lived in Weatherford before moving to Brownwood in 1989. She married A.D. Byrd in 1939. Mr. Byrd preceded her in death in December 1972. She married Glen G. Handy in 1975. She was a member of Faith Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband, of Brownwood; one daughter, Linda Sue Cox of Mesquite; two sons, Gary L. Byrd of Weatherford and Donnie A. Byrd of Fort Worth; her mother, Inez Jones of Brownwood; two brothers, Murice "Bill" Jones and Dale Jones of Brownwood; two sisters, Dorothy Cooper of Brownwood and Patsy Brown of Houston; seven grandchildren; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Visitation will be from 7-8:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.
The family requests that memorials be made to a favorite charity.
(Published September 2, 1997)
Dawn Calhoun Cummings
GORDON -- Dawn Calhoun Cummings, 77, died Sunday in Mineral Wells.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at First Baptist Church in Gordon. Burial will be in the New Gordon Cemetery, directed by Edwards Funeral Home of Strawn.
Mrs. Cummings was born in Gordon. She was a graduate of Gordon High School and earned a degree in journalism from Texas Women's College in Denton. She married John R. Cummings in Fort Worth in 1945. Mr. Cummings preceded her in death in 1985. She taught school in Gordon for three years before moving to the Dallas-Fort Worth area and working for newspapers for 30 years. She was women's news and fashion editor and police and fire editor. She received the Margaret Caskey Award in 1976. She worked for the Arlington Daily News, Mid Cities Daily News, and A.H. Belo Corp.
She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Arlington and was a charter member of the Arlington Chamber of Commerce Women's Division and Soroptimist International. After retiring in 1983, she moved to the Crazy Water Hotel in Mineral Wells.
Survivors include one son, Joe Cummings of Amarillo; one stepson, Scotty Cummings of the Ex-ray community in Erath County; two sisters, Lazelle Hamilton of Mineral Wells and Mary Beth Morris of Gordon; three grandchildren; four great-grandchildren; and two step-grandchildren.
(Published September 2, 1997)
Elizabeth Q. Jackson
STRAWN -- Elizabeth Q. Jackson, 86, died at her residence Sunday.
Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. today in the New Gordon Cemetery with Rev. Michael Orsini officiating and Edwards Funeral Home of Strawn directing.
Mrs. Jackson was born in Bridgeport. She attended Mingus schools where she played on a state-winning baseball team. She was a graduate of Harris Methodist Hospital School of Nursing. She married Dr. Jack Garrett Jackson in Hopemont, W.V. They moved to Florida where she worked with her husband in his medical practice in Orlando. She was active in the Presbyterian Church, Ladies Auxiliary of Orange Memorial Hospital, Orlando Women's Club, and Orlando Junior League. She moved to Strawn in 1975 after her husband's death. She attended Mingus Baptist Church.
Survivors include one daughter, Betty Dorris of Strawn, four grandchildren and several nieces and nephews.
(Published September 2, 1997)
Don Allen Davis
MESQUITE -- Don Allen Davis, 45, died Saturday at a Mesquite hospital.
The body was cremated and memorial services are planned for a later date. Tankersley Funeral Home of Stamford will handle arrangements.
Mr. Davis was born in Abilene and was a teacher in Dallas. He was a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps. He was a Baptist.
Survivors include his father, O.A. Davis of Stamford; one brother, Roy Eugene Davis of Mesquite; one sister, Nancy Spears of Lueders; two nieces and two nephews.
(Published September 2, 1997)
Don R. Andrews
BROWNWOOD -- Don R. Andrews, 52, died Sunday at Brownwood Regional Medical Center.
Services will be at 2 p.m. today at the Davis-Morris Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. R.J. Elkins officiating. Interment will be at Eastlawn Memorial Park.
Mr. Andrews was born in Gorman and lived the past eight years in Brownwood, where he attended school. He worked for the Santa Fe Railroad. He also worked as a carpenter and with his stepfather at his auto repair shop. He was a Baptist.
Survivors include three sons, J.D. Andrews & Roy Don Andrews of Brownwood, and Travis Abernathy of Waco; one daughter, Teresa Smith of Brownwood; his mother, Juanita Hudson of Brownwood; one sister, Linda Lee of Ingram; four brothers, Donny Hudson, Billy Hudson and Gary Hudson of Brownwood, and Ronny Hudson of El Paso; and several grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
(Published September 2, 1997)
Roderick C. McClure
AMARILLO -- Roderick C. McClure, 85, died Aug. 29 in Amarillo.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Memorial Park Funeral Home Chapel of Memories, 6969 I-40 East. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.
Mr. McClure married Hilda Glasgow in Abilene. He worked for Joe Siegol Pipe & Steel for 39 years as a shop foreman. He was a long-time supporter of Boys Ranch.
Survivors include his wife, of Amarillo; two sons, Billy Joe McClure of Amarillo and Larry Kent McClure of Calera, Okla.; three daughters, Regena Somerville of Amarillo, Wanda Bibas of E. Providence, R.I., and Deloris Powers of Amarillo; one sister, Ida Mae Cullum; 16 grandchildren; 32 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.
(Published September 2, 1997)
Clarence A. Carbary
CISCO -- Clarence A. Carbary, 89, died Monday at a local nursing home.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Oakwood Cemetery with the Rev. Joe Philpott officiating.
Mr. Carbary was born in Detroit, Mich., to Henry A. Carbary and Alice Josephene Craft Carbary. He moved to Eastland County in 1920 and married Omalee Spoon in 1925 in Eastland. He was a mechanic, a World War II Army veteran, and a teacher in automotive mechanics after the war at Radolfe College.
Mr. Carbary was preceded in death by his wife, Omalee.
Survivors include two nieces.
(Published September 2, 1997)
E.A. "Doc" Blanchard
STEPHENVILLE - E.A. "Doc" Blanchard, who parlayed his work alongside famed car-builder Henry Ford into a hobby building Model T Fords "from scratch," died Monday.
Professor emeritus of industrial arts at Tarleton State University, Blanchard celebrated his 100th birthday earlier this year.
Services will be at 10 a.m. today at St. Brendan's Catholic Church. The funeral will be at Stephenville's Gardens of Memory Cemetery, under the direction of Stephenville Funeral Home.
Survivors include a nephew, Dr. Garry Anderson of Long Beach, Calif., and niece, Lisa Weatherford of Athens.
Memorials can be made to the Dawson-Blanchard Scholarship Fund at Tarleton State University.
Well into his golden years, Doc Blanchard remained a marvel throughout Erath County because he continued building Model T cars after his retirement from Tarleton in 1962. Much of his insight came from working at Henry Ford's Houston plant in the 1920s.
"I love to work and I had to have something to do in my retirement," Blanchard explained during a Reporter-News interview several years ago. "I didn't want to sit around and look at the sky. I wanted to work."
Blanchard admired Henry Ford, not just for his genius for designing cars but because he genuinely cared about his employees.
"They were good to me, but when you work for Henry Ford you're under strict rules and regulations," Blanchard said. "Everyone got the same salary at first. A janitor got the same as an engineer. He figured the janitor had a family, same as the engineer."
"Doc Blanchard was a favorite on campus, not just among the male students of the industrial technology department but the female students, too," said Dr. Koy Floyd, Tarleton's vice president for institutional advancement. "For many years he picked up his mail at Tarleton - from the 1920s on, really.
"He was an institution here and everyone loved him," Floyd said. "He formed much of our industrial technology department and was with it through so many years. He knew so many students and was close to many of them."
Tarleton, where Blanchard taught from 1926 until 1962, remained close to his heart, though he saw many other places during his life. Besides working for Henry Ford's car plant in Houston, he served during both World War I and World War II.
Born Jan. 13, 1897 in Fredericksburg, Dr. Blanchard married Nellene Anderson in 1931. She died in August 1996.
He was a founding member of St. Brendan's Catholic Church, the Knights of Columbus, the Veterans of Foreign Wars and American Legion Turnbow-Higgs Post 240. He received his bachelor's degree from Howard Payne University, his master's from Tarleton and his doctorate from Howard Webster University.
(Published September 3, 1997)
