Beckham Co. - Obit for Lester Caraway

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Lester Caraway
RALLS - Lester Caraway, 69, of Lubbock, died Saturday, Feb. 3, 2001.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Ralls First Baptist Church with 
Alton Pope of Post officiating. Burial will be in Ralls Cemetery by Adams 
Funeral Home.

Mr. Caraway was born in Portales, N.M., and lived in Ralls, Lubbock and 
Amarillo before returning to Lubbock.

A Marine Corps veteran of the Korean War, he later served in the Marine 
Corps Reserve. He helped organize the Veterans Room at the Ralls Historical 
Museum and was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, Disabled American 
Veterans and American Legion. He worked as a farmer and sold farm equipment.

His daughter, Leslie Gayle Caraway, died in 1965.

He married Linda Clements in 1957 at Petersburg.

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Harold Wayne Caraway of Elk City, Okla., 
and Tharon Glen Caraway of Austin; two brothers, Bob Caraway of Clyde and 
John Caraway of Durant, Okla.; two sisters, Lura Tennison of Clyde and Jimmie 
Moore of Friendswood.

Visitation will be from 5 p.m. until 6 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home.