Pontotoc Co. - Obit for Clarence Upton Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** PAMPA - Clarence Upton, 85, died Tuesday, March 7, 2000. Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors Colonial Chapel with Paul Nachtigall, pastor of Highland Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Fairview Cemetery. Mr. Upton was born in Hart, Okla., and was an Army veteran of World War II. He worked at a grain elevator in Memphis then moved to Pampa in 1947. Mr. Upton was a custodian for the Pampa Independent School District and U.S. Postal Service. He was a member of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 1657. In 1992, he moved to Moore, Okla., then returned to Pampa in 1994. He moved to McLean in 1995 and returned to Pampa in 1998. He married Edna Cox in 1968 at Pampa. She preceded him in death. Survivors include three sisters, Dorothy Searl, Drucilla Totty and Imogene Adams, all of Pampa. Amarillo Daily News, March 9, 2000