Obit of Abernathy, Caris Larkin (a165) - Pottawatomie County OK

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Obit for Caris Larkin Abernathy 
Date of Newspaper:  12/9/1996

Caris Larkin Abernathy
PLAINVIEW - Caris Larkin "C.L." Abernathy, 89, died Sunday, Dec. 8,
1996.

Services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Wood-Dunning Funeral Home Colonial 
Chapel with Dr. Travis Hart, of First Baptist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Parklawn Memorial Gardens by WoodDunning Funeral Home.

Mr. Abernathy was born in Waco. He married Hazel Cline in 1928 at Santa 
Ana, Calif. He was an insurance agent, real estate broker and abstracter 
in Hollis, Okla., and Plainview. He had served in the Army during World War 
II. He was mayor of Plainview from 1954 until 1956 and Hale County judge 
from 1959 until 1971. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and Shriner and a member 
of Arch Keys Lodge. He was active on state and local levels with mental 
health and mental retardation, working with the MHMR Center as an independent 
consultant. He was criminal justice planner-coordinator of the Panhandle 
Regional Planning Commission at Amarillo, serving all of the Texas Panhandle 
area.

He was a member of and served as an officer and director of the Rotary 
Club; chamber of commerce; Plainview Chapter of the American Association of 
Retired Persons; Hale County Senior Citizens Center; Nine County Council 
on Alcohol Abuse; Panhandle Association of County Judges and  Commissioners; 
West Texas County Judges and Commissioners Association;  Bethesda Manor, 
Inc.; American Association of Retired People; and  Retired Senior Volunteer 
Program.

He was preceded in death by a daughter, Mary Patricia Abernathy, in March.

Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Betty Jane Crow of Plainview 
and Carolyn Rankin of Pecos; a sister, Bettie Ricketson of Shawnee, Okla.; 
a brother, E.L. Abernathy of Laguna Hills, Calif; four grandchildren; and 
eight great-grandchildren.

The family requests memorials be to a favorite charity.
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