Eddy County, NM - OBIT:  Myrtle Zelpha Grissom

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The following excerpts were taken from page 8 - The Artesia
(NM) Daily Press - September 28, 1999

GRISSOM
Graveside services are scheduled Friday, October 1, at Twin Oaks
Memorial Park in Artesia, for former Artesia resident, Myrtle
Zelpha Grissom of Lebanon, Ore.  Grissom, 97, died on September 25,
at Lebanon Community Hospital.  She was born February 28, 1902,
in Cove, Ark., to Stephen Alexander and Hattie (Smith) Winters.
She married James J. Grissom on November 16, 1917, in Arkansas.
She moved to Weed, NM in 1941 and on to Artesia in 1942.  She
was a member of Hermosa Church of Christ in Artesia.  She then
moved to Lebanon, Ore., in 1964.  She is survived by sons Hallis
Grissom of Portales, NM, James Howard of Ada, OK, H. Stephen
Grissom and Herbert "Red" Grissom, both of Lebanon; daughters
Dorothy Younger of Artesia and Zelpha Carter of Elgin, TX; brother
Stephen Everett Winters of Aztec, NM; sister Mary Belle Merideth
of Roswell, NM; and numerous grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by sisters Lenora Matilda Carter and 
Mildred Doanghe; brothers Bruce Winters and Lee Cobb Winters;
and son Herman Wallace Grissom.