Obit of Sawyer, Roy L - Cleveland County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 8 Apr 1997

Roy L. Sawyer

PLAINVIEW - Roy L. Sawyer, 84, died Sunday, April 6, 1997.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in College Heights Baptist Church 
with the Rev. Don Robertson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in 
Plainview Memorial Park by Lemons Funeral Home.

Mr. Sawyer was born and raised in Little, Okla., and attended Little 
schools. He married Florence Carrell in 1941 at Norman, Okla. After their 
marriage, they lived in Apache, Okla., where he farmed and operated a 
grocery store. They moved to the Edmonson community in 1945 and farmed 
until 1956, when he retired and moved into Plainview.

He operated a rural mail route from 1957 to 1967 and then began working 
with the city of Plainview in the Parks and Recreation Department. He 
retired in 1977.

Mr. Sawyer was a member of College Heights Baptist Church and the Farm 
Bureau. While living in Edmonson he served as president of the Edmonson 
Co-op Gin.


Survivors include his wife; three daughters, Sandy Sawyer of Plano, Carrell
 Ann Simmons of Denton and Judy Weatherford of Plainview; a son, 
Tom Sawyer of Austin; a brother, Ira Sawyer of Apache, Okla.; a sister, 
Edna Mae Noe of Anadarko, Okla.; eight grandchildren; and nine great-
grandchildren.
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