Harmon Co. Obit for: Irene Easter Hooks
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Web posted Monday, April 15, 2002
5:09 a.m. CT

Irene Hooks 
Canyon 
Irene Hooks, 84, of Canyon died Saturday, April 13, 2002. 

Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the chapel of Brooks Funeral Directors of 
Canyon with Rick 
Bloodworth, pastor of Happy Church of Christ, officiating. Burial will be in 
Dreamland Cemetery. 

Mrs. Hooks was born in Hollis, Okla., to John and Katherine Baccus Easter. She 
attended country 
schools in the Hollis area. She married Woodrow Hooks in 1937. In 1948, they 
moved to Borger and 
started her family and worked at the North Plains Hospital. 

She moved to Tucumcari, N.M., in 1970 and operated a dress shop with her sister. 
In 1983, she moved 
back to Borger and opened up another dress shop. She moved to Canyon in March 
2000. 

She was preceded in death by three brothers, Bill Easter, Lloyd Easter and 
Johnny Easter; and a sister, 
Darlene Stegall. 

Survivors include her husband; a son, Harold Hooks and wife, Earline, of Canyon; 
a daughter, Kathie 
Polhemus and husband, Ron, of Hanna City, Ill.; three sisters, Billie Watkins of 
Paradise, Calif., Margie 
Barnett of Tucumcari and Revena Johnson of Hollis; four grandchildren; and seven 
great-grandchildren. 

The family suggests memorials be to Baptist St. Anthony's Hospice, P.O. Box 950, 
Amarillo, TX 79176. 

Amarillo Globe-News, April 15, 2002