Eddy Co. NM - OBIT:  LUCILLE LEWIS

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The following excerpts were taken from Page 6A - The Carlsbad
(NM) Current Argus - January 30, 2000
LEWIS, LUCILLE
Graveside services will be held for Lucille Lewis, 78, on February 1,
at Cienega Cemetery, Otero County, near Dell City, Texas.  She died
January 27 at Carlsbad Medical Center.  Denton-Funchess Funeral
Home is in charge of arrangements.  She was born on September 9, 1921,
to Jesse and Rebecca "Bessie" Hayes Magby in Dog Canyon.  She lived
in the area most of her life.  She married James David "Dee" Lewis
on August 2, 1940, in Alamogordo, NM.  They ranched at Panama Ranch
from 1960 to 1980.  In 1980 they moved to Hope, NM and then to 
Carlsbad in 1998.  She was of the Baptist faith.  She was preceded
in death by five brothers, three sisters and her husband on
October 1, 1998.  Survivors include two sisters, Jewel Holley and
Josephine Offut of Carlsbad.  (Photo shown of Lewis)