Obituary: Geneva Minnick, January 2, 2004, Bronte Coke County, TX Contributed by Jo Collier 27 January 2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm *********************************************************************** The Observer/Enterprise, Robert Lee, Coke County, TX - January 9, 2004 MINNICK Geneva Minnick slipped the bonds of this world and departed to be with the Lord on January 2, 2004. She was born Mary Geneva Clifton on September 13, 1918 on a farm between Bronte and Tennyson. Her parents were Claud W. Clifton and Annie Lee Taylor Clifton. She attended school at the one-room Juniper School House before finishing up in the Bronte School system. After high school, she moved to San Angelo, attended beauty school and then worked in several hair salons. In about 1947, she moved to Iraan, Texas and met her husband, J. R. Minnick. They were married in 1950 and had one son, Terry, in 1951. J. R. and Geneva lived in several communities around Texas before moving back to Bronte in 1971. They owned and ran a small grocery store in Bronte before her husband, J.R., retired in 1976. Geneva worked at the Bronte Senior Citizen's Center for over 20 years, finally retiring in 2000. She loved her two grandchildren with all her heart, her devoted family, her fellow Christians at the Bronte Church of Christ, all of her friends at the Bronte Senior Center and her special friends of 80 years, Effie Corley. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, J. R. Minnick, who died in 1987; her stepson, Raymond J. Minnick; her eldest sister, Alice Lee Clifton Webb; and her middle sister, Margaret Jewll Clifton Brunson. She is survived by her son, Terry J. Minnick, of Northampton, MA; her two grandchildren, Joel Robert Minnick of Northampton, MA, and Kristin Whitney Minnick of New York, NY; a stepson, Robert L. Minnick, of Benbrook, Texas; a sister, Itha Mae Clifton Williams of San Angelo; a brother, William Harold Clifton, of Eldorado, Texas. She also is fortunate to have a number of loving nieces, newphews, grandnieces and grandnephews who have been a source of strength and inspiration during the final years of her life. Family visitation hours were from 4 to 7 pm on Saturday, January 3rd, at Shaffer Funeral Home in Bronte. Services were held at the Bronte Church of Christ on Sunday afternoon, January 4th, at 3 pm. Interment followed at Fairview Cemetery in Bronte. Services were under the direction of Shaffer Funeral Home. Geneva was a constant source of goodness and cheer and her loss leaves a hole in the lives of her friends and family that will never be filled. Permission granted by The Observer/Enterprise for publication in the Coke County TXGenWeb Archives.