Eddy Co. NM - OBIT:  VERA INEZ AUSTIN

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The following excerpts were taken from Page 6A - The Carlsbad
(NM) Current Argus - February 13, 2000
AUSTIN
Funeral services will be February 14 at First Baptist Church in
Artesia, NM, for Vera Inez Austin, 69, of Las Cruces, NM.  Interment
will follow at Woodbine Cemetery.  She died February 11 at Covenant
Medical Center in Lubbock, TX.  Terpening & Son Mortuary is in charge
of arrangements.  She was born April 26, 1930, in Chickasha, Okla.,
to Floyd M. and Christine Harper Martin.  She married Jesse Thomas
Austin on September 3, 1948, in Roswell, NM.  They moved to Artesia
from Oklahoma in 1958 and to Las Cruces four months ago.  She was
preceded in death by her parents, her oldest child, Connie O. Austin,
in 1968, and brother, Calvin Martin.  survivors include her husband,
Jesse T. Austin of the Veterans Center, Truth or Consequences, NM;
stepmother, Lou Martin of Ft. Worth, TX; daughters, Paula J. Phillips
of Albuquerque, NM, Naomi R. Austin of Atlanta and Debbie LeClear
of Lubbock; a son, Thomas W. Austin of Las Cruces; sisters, Lois R.
Green of Houston, TX, Helen R. Ripple of Springtown, TX, and Mary
Jo Cotton of Ft. Worth; brothers, Carl Martin of Weatherford, TX,
Jimmy F. Harper of Albuquerque and Donnell Harper and Gilbert Harper
of Ft. Worth; six grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.