Eddy Co. NM OBIT:  Elsie "Nana" Karr

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The following excerpts were taken from page 8 - The Artesia
(NM) Daily Press - September 14, 1999

KARR
Closed casket services are scheduled Thursday, September 16, 
for ELSIE "NANA" KARR of 93 E. Compress Road.  KARR, 82, died 
September 13 at the Artesia Good Samaritan Center.  Burial
will be at Twin Oaks Memorial Park in Artesia.  She was born
May 20, 1917, in Jacksboro, TX, to Earl Weaton Brisco and 
Jackie Marie (Hill) Brisco.  She married S.G. Karr in Deming,
NM, on September 20, 1948.  She was a member of First Baptist
Church in Artesia.  Survivors include her husband of the family
home; sons Sam Karr and Tony Karr of Artesia and Ranger Karr of
Williams, AZ; daughters Jo Ann Brisco of Midland, TX, Mickey
Casey of Las Cruces, NM, and Janis Karr of El Paso, TX; brother
Buck Brisco of Canutillo, TX; sisters Lucille Hutchinson, 
Roberta Williams, Alma Doiser and Delma Mae Smith, all of Texas.
She was preceded in death by her parents, a grandchild, and a 
sister, Pearl A. Foster.