Beckham Co. - Obit for Sterlin Potts, 2004

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Sterlin Potts

LUBBOCK - Sterlin Potts, 85, died Thursday, March 25, 2004.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in W.W. Rix Funeral Directors Chapel with
the Rev. Bill Gillum officiating. Burial will be at 4:30 p.m. in Texola
Cemetery with the Rev. Charlie Floyd officiating.

Mr. Potts was born July 1, 1918, in Texola, Okla., to Wallace and Nettie
Potts. Sterlin married Viola Bass on Dec. 9, 1942, in Erick, Okla. He lived in
Texola until 1973, where he farmed and then worked in the oil field. He moved
to Dumas in 1973 and worked for Beren Oil Co. until his retirement in 1985. He
had been a resident of Lubbock since 2000. Mr. Potts was a member of Indiana
Avenue Baptist Church and was a Baptist deacon.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Margie Pitcock and husband, Harylon,
of Lubbock; three grandchildren, Deana Pitcock of Lubbock, Donna Pitcock of
Abernathy and D'Aun Denton of San Antonio; and four great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today at the funeral home.

Sign our online guest book at www.rixfd.com.

Amarillo Globe-News, March 26, 2004