Obit of Southern, Velma Pauline - Texas County, Oklahoma

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Amarillo Globe News 9 Aug 1997

Velma Pauline Southern

TYRONE, Okla. - Velma Pauline Southern, 82, of Colorado Springs, Colo., a 
former Tyrone resident, died Sunday, Aug. 3, 1997.

Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. today in Tyrone Cemetery with Kyle 
Gregory Speed, grandson, officiating. Arrangements are by Schooler Funeral 
Home Inc., 4100 S. Georgia St., in Amarillo.

Mrs. Southern was born in Haviland, Kan. Her family moved to Tyrone in 
1921. She graduated from Tyrone High School in 1932 and attended 
Northwestern College at Alva from 1932 to 1933.

She married O.B. Southern in 1934.

She moved to Pomona, Calif., in 1935 and lived there until 1944, when she 
moved to Hereford, Texas. After the death of her husband in 1979, she 
moved back to Tyrone.

Mrs. Southern was a homemaker and a member of the Church of Christ.

Survivors include a daughter, Joan Speed; two sons, Gary Phillip Southern 
and Merle Warren Southern Sr.; seven grandchildren; nine great-
grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.

The family requests memorials be to the Tyrone Cemetery.
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