Beckham Co. - Obit for Melba June Crabtree Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************ Melba June Crabtree QUANAH - Melba June Crabtree, 64, died Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2000. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in Quanah First Baptist Church with the Rev. Don McFarland, minister of Parkview Baptist Church in Childress, officiating. Burial will be in Quanah Memorial Park by Price-Jackson Funeral Home. Mrs. Crabtree was born in Eldorado, Okla., and was a longtime resident of Quanah. In 1986, she retired as Hardeman County deputy clerk. She was bookkeeper and the owner and operator of several restaurants. She was a homemaker and a member of the Parkview Baptist Church in Childress and the Ladies Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary. She married Gene Crabtree in 1979 at Oklahoma City. Survivors include her husband; two sons, Billy Dan Tigert of Arcadia, Okla., and Randal Lee Tigert of Missouri City; four daughters, Jeannie Parrish of Elk City, Okla., Linda Evans and Tina Edwards, both of Quanah and Janet Dunn of Gonzales, La.; two brothers, Jerry Bruce Daniel and Clovis Cary Daniel Jr., both of Quanah; 13 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren. The family suggests memorials be to Multiple Sclerosis. Amarillo Daily News, Oct. 27, 2000