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::Portales Cemetery--Portales NM

Amarillo Globe News 16 Dec 1997

May Cosby

ROSWELL, N.M. - May Cosby, 85, died Friday, Dec. 12, 1997.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Wheeler Mortuary Chapel with the 
Rev. J.R. "Dick" Ross and the Rev. Steve Smith officiating. Burial will be 
in the Portales Cemetery.

Mrs. Cosby was born in Albion, Okla., and lived her early years in 
Oklahoma. She moved to Portales in 1948, where she lived until 1957. She 
married J.O. (Orville) Cosby in 1935 at Hobart, Okla. She was a member of 
University Baptist Church at Portales. They returned to Clovis in the mid-
1980s. He died in 1995. She then moved to Portales, and for the past year 
lived in Roswell.

Survivors include two sons, Jerry Cosby of Roswell and James Richard Cosby 
of Denton, Texas; a daughter, Illa Jones of Farmington; a sister, Ruth 
Heath of Enid, Okla.; two brothers, Kenneth Shaw of Enid and Odes Shaw of 
Ponca City, Okla.; 13 grandchildren; and 21 greatgrandchildren.
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