Beckham County, OK--Obits: Abernathy, Jake F., 1972 July 16, 2004 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ December 11, 1972, Clovis, New Mexico Jake F. Abernathy Funeral services for Jacob Forney (Jake F.) Abernathy, 83 will be held at 2 p.m. Tuesday at the First Baptist Church with the Rev. Walter T. Hunt and Dr. Herbert E. Bergstrom officiating. Burial will be in Mission Garden of Memories under the direction of Sherwood Mortuary. Mr. Abernathy died Sunday. He was born July 25, 1889, in Barstow, Okla. He had been a resident of Clovis for 52 years and was a life - long rancher. Survivors include three sons, Hezzy of Lubbock, Tex., Aden of Clovis, and James of Los Angeles, Calif., one daughter, Mrs. Dick (Betty Gail) Zurzola of Clovis, two brothers, Theodore of Elk City, Okla. and Elston of Sayre, Okla. Two sisters, Lilly Goode of Ardmore, Okla. and Mary Preskitt of West Columbia, Tex., 11 grandchildren and 8 great grand- children. Pallbearers will be Mr. Abernathy's grandsons with honary pallbearers to be all friends of Mr. Abernathy's. Mr. Abernathy's wife, the former Ruth Allsup Abernathy, preceded him in death in February of 1971.