Beckham Co. - Obit for Willa Mae Lavender 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 ************************************************ Willa Mae Lavender LAMAR, Colo. - Willa Mae Lavender, 90, died Wednesday, Jan. 1, 1997. Services will be at 3 p.m. today in Lamar United Methodist Church with the Rev. Charles Cooper officiating. Burial will be at 3 p.m. Saturday in Claude Cemetery at Claude, Texas. Arrangements are by Peacock-Wood Funeral Home. Mrs. Lavender was born in Tipton, Okla. She lived in the Claude area from 1926 to 1952 and then moved to Lamar. She was preceded in death by two husbands, Banks Lavender and Floyd Calliham. Survivors include two daughters, Loys Ann Balsley of Boulder and Dianne Larkin of Jefferson City, Mo.; a sister, Geraldine Cutright of Fresno, Calif.; a brother, Elbert Marney of Elk City, Okla.; three grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. The family requests memorials be to Lamar United Methodist Church.