Obit of Leatherwood, Retha - Choctaw County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 13 Jun 1997

Retha Leatherwood

ABERNATHY - Retha Leatherwood, 76, of Lubbock, a former Abernathy 
resident, died Thursday, June 12, 1997.

Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. today in Abernathy Cemetery with Gene 
Leatherwood, son of the deceased, officiating. Arrangements are by Abell 
Funeral Home.

Mrs. Leatherwood was born in Boswell, Okla. She married Hallie L. 
Leatherwood in 1938 at Honey Grove. He died in 1991. She also was preceded 
in death by a daughter, Bernice Evans, in 1996.

She moved from Shallowater to New Deal in 1951 and to Abernathy in 1969. 
She moved to Lubbock in 1995.

Survivors include three sons, Ray Leatherwood of Valley View, Gene 
Leatherwood of Lubbock and J.W. Leatherwood of Denver City; two daughters, 
Loetta Russell of Lubbock and Ruth Cox of Timberon, N.M.; two brothers, 
Loranza Shaw of Hereford and Doyle Shaw of Amarillo; four sisters, Jo 
Hardy of Lubbock, Eva Sanders of Clovis, Calif., and Ruth Teal and Nadine 
Beatty, both of Manteca, Calif.; 18 grandchildren; and 24 great-
grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to Bender Terrace Nursing Home, 4710 
27th, Lubbock, Texas 79410.
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