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   Ella Mae McClendon
   
   DALHART  -  Ella  Mae  McClendon,  80,  died Monday, Jan. 28, 2002, in
   Amarillo.
   
   Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Hass Funeral Home Chapel with Jeff
   Taylor,  minister  of  Central  United  Methodist Church, officiating.
   Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.
   
   Mrs.  McClendon was born Dec. 23, 1921, in Erick, Okla., to Martin and
   Clara Ludecke Doyle. She moved with her family to Dalhart in 1929. She
   graduated from Dalhart High School in 1940.
   
   She  went  to California and worked for Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach
   where  B-17  bombers  were  built during World War II. She returned to
   Dalhart in 1945 and on April 3, 1945, she married Joe McClendon.
   
   In  1968  he  purchased  Maytag  Laundry. After his death in 1969, she
   continued  to  operate  the  laundry until 1983. Over 50 years ago her
   family  built  her  a home on Tennessee Street and she has lived there
   since.
   
   She   was   preceded   in   death  by  her  husband;  her  parents;  a
   granddaughter; five brothers; and four sisters.
   
   Survivors  include  two  sons,  Ron  McClendon  and wife, Charleen, of
   Trinidad,  Colo., and Freddy McClendon of Amarillo; a daughter, Vickie
   Barrow   and  husband,  David,  of  Pampa;  her  brother-in-law,  Jack
   McClendon  of  Dalhart; two sisters, Joy Tomlin of Amarillo and Margie
   Burton of Fort Worth; seven grandsons; and two great-grandchildren.
   
   The family will be at 821 Tennessee in Dalhart.
   
   Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 30, 2002
   
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