Obit of McClendon, Leta Chastain - Bryan County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ 1 Jan 2005 Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan.htm ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Amarillo Globe News 13 Jun 1997 Leta Chastain McClendon PLAINVIEW - Leta Chastain McClendon, 99, died Wednesday, June 11, 1997. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. today in Plainview Cemetery with Elder Joe Longoria of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints officiating. Arrangements are by Lemons Funeral Home. Mrs. McClendon was born in Durant, Okla., and moved to Kress at an early age. She grew up in Kress and attended school there. She moved to Aiken in 1933 and worked as a nanny. She married Edgar Franklin McClendon II in 1935 at Clovis, N.M. He died in 1977. She also was preceded in death by a daughter, Dorothy Nichols, in 1965. After marrying, she moved to Plainview. She was a member of the Mormon Church, the Veterans of Foreign Wars Auxiliary and the American Legion. Survivors include a daughter, Mary Hill of Hale Center; a son, Eddie McClendon of El Paso; three grandsons; five great-granddaughters; and four greatgreat-grandchildren. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Bryan County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/bryan/bryan