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  Earl Black
   PAMPA - Earl Black, 84, died Tuesday, Jan. 25, 2000.
   
   Memorial services will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday in St. Paul United
   Methodist Church in Pampa with the Rev. Jim Teeter officiating.
   Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in Fairlawn Cemetery in
   Elk City, Okla., with Teeter officiating. Arrangements are by Schooler
   Funeral Home, 4100 S. Georgia St., in Amarillo.
   
   Mr. Black was born in Cheyenne, Okla. He lived in Friona where he was
   employed by International Harvester and was a farmer. He then moved to
   Pampa where he was a longtime employee of Texaco. He was a member of
   St. Paul United Methodist Church in Pampa.
   
   He was preceded in death by his first wife, Hazel Black. He married
   Anna Lee Ruston in 1941 at Clinton, Okla. She died in 1998. He also
   was preceded in death by a son, Leland Ray Black.
   
   Survivors include a daughter, Earlene Yates of Amarillo; a son, Leon
   Black of Elkhart, Kan.; two sisters, Maxine Hapeman and Earnestine
   Ammons, both of Pampa; five grandchildren; and six
   great-grandchildren.
   
   The family suggest memorials be to Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice, Box
   950, Amarillo, TX 79176; or St. Paul United Methodist Church, 511 N.
   Hobart, Pampa, TX 79065.
   
   Amarillo Daily News, Jan. 28, 2000