Beckham Co. OK - Obit for Mary Irene Sollock Tryon

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TRYON Mary Irene Sollock
 Funeral services for Mary Tryon will be conducted at 2 p.m., Friday,
from the Martin Funeral Home Chapel of Elk City with Rev. J.M. Ashley
officiating.  Interment will be at 2 p.m., Monday, at the Imperial
Memorial Gardens in Pueblo, Colorado, under the direction of the Martin
Funeral Home in Elk City.
 Mary Irene Tryon was born August 10, 1913 at Ochiltree, Texas to Edward
and Mary Ann Mallett Sollock and died Saturday, March 23, 2002 at the age
of 88.
 She moved to Brisco, Texas with the family where she attended school and
played basketball for the Brisco Baby Boomers.  She moved to California
during WW II and worked as a supervisor in the San Diego Shipyards.  She
then moved to Pueblo, Colorado and worked for the Pueblo Army Ordinance
Army Depot.  She met and married Merwyn Tryon on July 16, 1946 and they
worked together at the Army Depot for several years.  Mary was also as
chef and worked at several restaurants around Pueblo and surrounding
communities until she moved to Elk City in 1987.
 She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband; one stepdaughter,
Carline Hayes and 11 brothers and sisters.
 Survivors include two daughters, Ginger Habekott and husband Lester of
Elk City and Caroline Seely and husband Brad of Mansfield, Texas; one
sister, Stella Rachley of Amarillo, Texas; 11 grandchildren and 12 great
grandchildren.
  The Elk City Daily News, Elk City, OK 26-Mar-2002