Beckham Co. - Obit for Mary Ellen Sweet, 1999 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 ************************************************ Mary Ellen Sweet DALHART - Mary Ellen Sweet, 73, died Sunday, Feb. 7, 1999. Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Dalhart Church of Christ. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery at Dalhart by Hass Funeral Home. Mrs. Sweet was born in Texola, Okla., and raised in Texola and Erick, Okla. She worked for Douglas Aircraft on the assembly line during World War II. After the war, she moved to Dalhart and worked for General Telephone as an operator from 1951 until 1972. She was a member of Dalhart Church of Christ. She married A.O. Sweet in 1947 at Clayton, N.M. He preceded her in death. Survivors include two sons, Keith Sweet of Mesa, Ariz., and Kent Sweet of Amarillo; two daughters, Mary Zan Warren and Candy Wilbur, both of Amarillo; a brother, Richard "Dub" Rice of Lubbock; a sister, Ruby Zan Wright of Dalhart; eight grandchildren; and 12 greatgrandchildren.