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      OA Online Death Notices. 
   
December 03, 1998

Permian Basin Death Notices

   Nancy Ballard
   
   SEMINOLE  --  Nancy  Elizabeth  Ballard, 83, of Seminole died Tuesday,
   Dec. 1, 1998, at Memorial Health Care Center in Seminole.
   
   Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Friday at Gaines County Cemetery
   South  with  the  Rev. Earnest Wall officiating. Arrangements by Boyer
   Funeral Home.
   
   She was born in Mills County and had been a resident of Seminole since
   1958 after moving from Lamesa.
   
   SURVIVORS:  Sons,  William E. Ballard of Las Vegas and J.T. Ballard of
   Seminole;  daughter,  Dean  Durham  of  Seminole; eight grandchildren,
   seven great-grandchildren and two great-great-grandchildren.
   
   Vera Briggs 
   
   ARTESIA,  N.M.  -- Vera Allene Briggs, 88, of Artesia, N.M., a retired
   retail  sales clerk, died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1998, at Carlsbad Medical
   Center in Carlsbad, N.M.
   
   Services  will  be at 2 p.m. today at Terpening & Son Mortuary Chapel.
   Burial  will  be at Woodbine Cemetery. Arrangements by Terpening & Son
   Mortuary.
   
   She  was  born  in  Lovington, N.M., and moved to Artesia in 1945 from
   Lovington. She was Baptist.
   
   SURVIVORS: Sons, William D. Sanders of San Angelo, Dale Sanders of Las
   Cruces,  N.M., Jim Mitchell of England and Theodore Briggs of Midland;
   brother,  Lawson  Monteith  of Lovington, N.M.; one grandchild and two
   great-grandchildren.
   
   Louis Spain
   
   OVILLA  --  Louis  V.  Spain,  91,  of DeSoto, a retired teacher, died
   Monday, Nov. 30, 1998, in Dallas.
   
   Graveside  services  will  be  at 10 a.m. Friday at Shiloh Cemetery in
   Ovilla  with  the  Rev.  Duane  Dougherty officiating. Arrangements by
   West/Hurtt Funeral Home.
   
   He  was born in Ellis County. He was an Air Force veteran of World War
   II. He was Presbyterian.
   
   SURVIVORS: Brother, John Hill Spain of Tyler.
   
   Bernice Bledsoe
   
   ODESSA -- Bernice Bledsoe, 77, of Odessa died Wednesday, Dec. 2, 1998,
   in Austin.
   
   Services are pending with Martinez Funeral Home.
   
   Ila Henderson
   
   ODESSA  --  Ila Mayme Henderson, 71, of Odessa died Wednesday, Dec. 2,
   1998, at her residence.
   
   Services are pending with Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.
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