Obit of Atchley, Forrest S. (a324) - Alfalfa County, Oklahoma

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Forrest S. Atchley

CLAYTON, N.M. - Forrest S. Atchley, 89, died Wednesday, March 24, 1999.

Services will be at 1 p.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. 
Billy Rammage, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in the Clayton Memorial 
Cemetery by Hass Funeral Directors of Clayton.

Mr. Atchley was born in Carmen, Okla., and moved to New Mexico in a 
covered wagon at age 4. He graduated from Grenville High School. He was 
active in the Baptist Church as a deacon and Sunday school teacher.

Mr. Atchley was one of the founding members of the Sierra Grande Cowboy 
Camp Meeting and started the Thanksgiving Prayer Breakfast in Clayton. He 
served for three terms in the New Mexico legislature as well as in the 
U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate. He was a delegate to a 
Republican National Convention and founder of an international business. 

He married Ruby Edna Smith in 1934. She died in 1991.

Survivors include four daughters, Violet Brockman of Clayton, De Anna 
Richardson and Elaine Aschbacher, both of Sedan, and Teena Atchley of 
Odessa, Texas; a son, Wayne Atchley of Amarillo; a sister, Genevieve 
Dillon of Albuquerque; two brothers, Gene Atchley of Clayton and John 
Atchley of Portales; 10 grandchildren; and 17 great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorials be to First Baptist Church, 223 Oak St., 
Clayton, NM 88415; the Baptist Children's Home, P.O. Box 629, Portales, NM 
88130; or to Olivia's Angels, Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice and Life 
Enrichment Program, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79176.

Amarillo Globe News 26 Mar 1999
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