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Obit for Lorene M. Cleere

Lorene M. Cleere

Lorene M. Cleere, 80, of Amarillo died Friday, June 7, 2002.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Paramount Baptist Church with Dr. Gil
Lain, pastor, and the Rev. F.M. Byford, senior adults minister, officiating.
Eastern Star burial rites will be by the A.E. Shirley Chapter No. 986, Order of
the Eastern Star. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery by Rector Funeral Home,
2800 S. Osage St.

Mrs. Cleere was born in Whitney. She moved to Amarillo in 1944. She retired
from the O.M. Franklin Serum Co. where she had worked as a laboratory
technician.

She was a member of Paramount Baptist Church where she was active in the
Lydia Sunday School class and worked with the Vacation Bible School for
many years.

She was a member of the A.E. Shirley Chapter No. 986, Order of the Eastern
Star. She served as Worthy Matron in 1964. She married Dean Cleere in 1953
at Clovis, N.M.

She and her husband traveled extensively throughout the United States and
Europe after their retirement. She was a caring wife, mother, sister and
grandmother who held strong in her faith. Her spiritual gift was mercy and she
displayed graciousness, a smile and a witty sense of humor.

Survivors include her husband; a daughter, Glenda Hunkapiller of Renton,
Wash.; two sons, Dr. Carroll E. Cleere of Tulsa, Okla., and Kenny Cleere of
Amarillo; a sister, Thelma Buck of Odessa; two brothers, Frank Wood of
Amarillo and Cecil G. Wood of Littleton, Colo.; a son-in-law, Waren
Hunkapiller of Renton; two daughters-in-law, Janice Cleere of Tulsa and
Donna Cleere of Amarillo; six grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and a
multitude of relatives and friends.

The family suggests memorials be to Paramount Baptist Church building fund;
the National Parkinson Foundation; or BSA Hospice.

Amarillo Globe-News, June 9, 2002