Eddy Co. NM - OBIT:  HENRY I PITTS

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The following excerpts were taken from Page 6A - The Carlsbad
(NM) Current Argus - January 30, 2000
PITTS
Services will be held on January 31, for Henry I. Pitts, at West
Funeral Home Chapel.  Interment will follow in the Carlsbad Cemetery.
Masonic graveside rites will be performed by Eddy Lodge No. 21
AF & AM.  Military honors will also be performed graveside by
the Carlsbad Veterans Honor Guard.  He died January 28 at Carlsbad
Medical Center.  West Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
He was born January 19, 1920, to Henry Corbet and Nora Ridding Pitts
in Earle, Arkansas.  He lived in Ark., until the age of 20 when
he enlisted in the US Army on June 13, 1940.  He was a decorated
veteran and served with Company B, 8th Infantry, 4th Division.  He
stormed the beaches of Normandy and was also involved in the
Rhineland and Northern France Campaigns.  He received the EAME Service
Ribbon with three bronze service stars and one bronze arrowhead,
American Defense Service Ribbon, Distinguished Unit Badge and the
Purple Heart.  He was honorably discharged on September 7, 1945.
He married Catherine Mitchell Pitts in Carlsbad on March 4, 1962.
He was a lifetime Mason, being initiated on August 11, 1975, and 
raised on December 15, 1975.  He was preceded in death by his
parents and one daughter, Martha Jane.  Survivors include his wife,
Katy Pitts of the home; son, Jerry Pitts and wife, Virginia, of
Hobbs, NM; daughters, Judy Webster and husband, Klint, of Denver,CO,
and Barbara Neatherlin and husband, Don, of Roswell, NM; brothers,
R.J. Pitts and Claybern Pitts of Arkansas; sisters, Mary Milks of
Iowa and Josephine McFarraine of Arkansas; granchildren, Cyndi
McDaniel, Stacey Lallman, Mysti McCunsey, Misti, Douglas Jr. 
(Bubba), Cory and Lacey Rich, Mikki Ogas, Kathy Donaldson, Kristen
Graham and Terra Pitts, nine great-grandchildren; and numerous
nieces and nephews in Arkansas.  (Photo shown of Pitts)