Obit of Clayton, Ella Lorean - Cimarron County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillo.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillo.com/ 20 Feb 2011 Return to Cimarron County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cimarron/cimarron.htm ===================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ===================================================================== ::Memorial Park Cemetery--Dalhart TX Amarillo Globe News 6 Apr 1998 Ella Lorean Clayton DALHART - Ella Lorean Clayton, 82, died Saturday, April 4, 1998. Services will be at 11 a.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church. Burial in Memorial Park Cemetery by Hass Funeral Home. Mrs. Clayton was born in Boise City, Okla., and graduated from Boise City High School. She lived in Kerrick community in the early 1940s until moving to Dalhart in 1944. She lived in the Rehm community until 1969. She returned to Dalhart in 1971. Mrs. Clayton was a member of First Baptist Church where she worked in the nursery. She helped organize the 55 Plus Club and served as director and treasurer. She was a charter member of the Rehm Home Extension Club and had served on the Texas Home Demonstration Association boards at both district and state levels. She also was one of the organizers of the first Interstate Fair held in Dalhart. She married Ennis Clayton in 1933 at Cimarron County in the farm house where she was born. He died in 1969. She also was preceded in death by two grandchildren. Survivors include a son, Raymond Clayton of Paradise; three daughters, Vernie Jean Nordstrom of Wichita Falls, Ella Louise Vogle of Glencoe, Okla., and Peggie Nell Cody of Dalhart; a brother, Elmer Mayhan of Wildhorse, Colo.; 11 grandchildren; and 16 great-grandchildren. The family request memorials be to First Baptist Church, 55 Plus Club or to a favorite charity. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Cimarron County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/cimarron/cimarron.htm