Eddy Co. NM - OBIT:  EARL C PELTON

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The following excerpts were taken from Page 6A - The Carlsbad
(NM) Current Argus - January 9, 2000
PELTON
Funeral services are scheduled for Earl C. Pelton, 82, on January 10
at Hillcrest Baptist Church.  Interment will follow at Sunset
Gardens Memorial Park with honors by the Carlsbad Veterans Honor
Guard.  He died January 6 at Landsun Health Service Center.  
Denton-Funchess Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.  He was
born December 2, 1917, in Oilton, Okla., to Charles J. and Edith
Stout Pelton.  He grew up in Kansas, living in Eldorado, Ford County
and Rice County on a farm.  On August 28, 1944, he married Helen
M. Hall in Hutchinson, Kansas.  He had served in the Army during
WWII.  In 1948, he and his wife moved to Carlsbad.  He was a member
of the VFW Bryan Mudget Post and the DAV.  He was a lifetime member
of BPOE 1558.  He retired as a captain in the Civil Air Patrol.  He 
was a member of Hillcrest Baptist Church.  He was preceded in death
by a brother, Clyde Pelton.  Survivors include his wife, Helen
Pelton of Carlsbad; son, Larry E. Pelton of Cherokee Village, Ark.;
brother, Elmer L. Pelton of Wichita, Kan.; two grandchildren; and
three great-grandchildren.  (Photo shown of Pelton)