Obit of Dye, Herman Wilson - Unknown County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ 13 Jan 2005 Return to Unknown County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/okstate.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Amarillo Globe News 23 Aug 1997 Herman Wilson Dye CLAUDE - Herman Wilson Dye, 74, died Thursday, Aug. 21, 1997. Services will be at 2 p.m. today in First Baptist Church with Bill Phillips of Amarillo, the Rev. Larry Crumpton, pastor of Claude First United Methodist Church, and the Rev. Phil Mercado of Amarillo officiating. Burial will be in Claude Cemetery by Robertson Funeral Directors Inc. of Clarendon. Mr. Dye was born in Claude. He was a resident of Amarillo from 1952 to 1959. He lived in Oklahoma for more than 14 years before returning to Claude seven years ago. He married Geraldine "Jerry'' Marie Griffin in 1942 at Amarillo. Mr. Dye worked as a machinist for the government for 26 years. He then was a strip mining supervisor for Utah International for 14 years before retiring in 1987. He was ordained as a deacon at Claude First Baptist Church in 1957. He was a longtime member and past noble grand of the Farmington, N.M., Oddfellows. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. Survivors include his wife; four sons, Darwin Dwight Dye and Charles Lynn Dye, both of Farmington, Presley Dye of Keyes, Okla., and Harold Wilson Dye of Bloomfield, N.M.; a sister, Marie Cope of Claude; two brothers, Roy L. Dye Jr. of Houston and Howard Dye of Amarillo; nine grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. ========= Amarillo Globe News 24 Aug 1997 Herman Wilson Dye CLAUDE - Herman Wilson Dye, 74, died Thursday, Aug. 21, 1997. Services were at 2 p.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church with Bill Phillips of Amarillo, the Rev. Larry Crumpton, pastor of Claude First United Methodist Church, and the Rev. Phil Mercado of Amarillo officiating. Burial was in Claude Cemetery by Robertson Funeral Directors Inc. of Clarendon. Mr. Dye was born in Claude. He was a resident of Amarillo from 1952 to 1959. He lived in Oklahoma for more than 14 years before returning to Claude seven years ago. He married Geraldine "Jerry'' Marie Griffin in 1942 at Amarillo. Mr. Dye worked as a machinist for the government for 26 years. He then was a strip mining supervisor for Utah International for 14 years before retiring in 1987. He was ordained as a deacon at Claude First Baptist Church in 1957. He was a longtime member and past noble grand of the Farmington, N.M., Oddfellows. He was a Navy veteran of World War II. Survivors include his wife; four sons, Darwin Dwight Dye and Charles Lynn Dye, both of Farmington, Presley Dye of Keyes, Okla., and Harold Wilson Dye of Bloomfield, N.M.; a sister, Marie Cope of Claude; two brothers, Roy L. Dye Jr. of Houston and Howard Dye of Amarillo; nine grandchildren; and a great-grandchild. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Unknown County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/okstate.html