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                        OA Online Death Notices. 
                                      
                                May 9, 1999
                                      
                        Permian Basin Death Notices
                                      
                          Maria De Jesus Navarrete
                                      
       MIDLAND — Maria De Jesus Navarrete, 74, of Midland, died
              Thursday, May 6, 1999, at a hospital in Midland.
                                      
     Mass will be celebrated at 10 a.m. Monday at Our Lady of Guadalupe
    Catholic Church with the Rev. Art Flores officiating. Burial will be
   at 1 p.m. in Mount Evergreen Cemetery in Pecos. Rosary will be said at
    7:30 p.m. Sunday at Reyes-Garcia Chapel in Midland. Arrangements by
                   Reyes-Garcia Funeral Home of Midland.
                                      
      She was born in Colonia El Pueblito Municipal Adama, Chihuahua,
    Mexico. She moved to Pecos in 1969, later moving to Midland in 1998.
                             She was Catholic.
                                      
      SURVIVORS: Husband, Sixto Navarrete Sr. of Midland; sons, Sixto
    Navarrete Jr. of El Paso, Kiko Navarrete and Rene Navarrete, both of
   Midland, and Octavio Navarrete of South America, Filimon Navarrete of
    Odessa; daughters, Maria De Jesus and Emma Carrasco, both of Odessa,
    and Rosa Navarrete of Barstow; brother, Thomas Armendariz of Pecos;
    sisters, Socorro Castro, Agripina De La Rosa and Josephina Mendoza,
            all of Pueblito, Chihuahua; 27 grandchildren; and 19
                            great-grandchildren.
                                      
                              Monte G. LaFon 
                                      
        KERMIT — Monte G. LaFon, 61, of Kermit, a retired heavy
   maintenance supervisor for El Paso Natural Gas, died Wednesday, May 5,
             1999, at St. Francis Medical Center in Monroe, La.
                                      
      Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday at the First Baptist Church in
      Kermit with the Rev. J.R. Manning officiating. Burial will be in
    Kermit Cemetery. Arrangements by Cooper Funeral Home Inc. of Kermit.
                                      
   He was born in Wichita Falls and had lived in Kermit for 48 years. He
                                was Baptist.
                                      
       SURVIVORS: Wife, B. Patsy LaFon of Kermit; son, Tommy LaFon of
    Houston; daughter, Lee Ann Greene of Abilene; mother, Ruth LaFon of
                 Odessa; and sister, Ronda Horan of Plano.
                                      
                                Doris Gildon
                                      
      MONAHANS — Doris Gildon, 92, of Monahans, a homemaker, died
       Friday, May 7, 1999, at the Midland Skilled Nursing Facility.
                                      
   Graveside services will be 2 p.m. Monday at Monahans Memorial Cemetery
   with the Rev. Ken Andress officiating. Arrangements by Harkey Funeral
                                   Home.
                                      
      She was born in Redwater. She moved to Monahans in 1941. She was
                                  Baptist.
                                      
   SURVIVORS: Sons, Charles K. Gildon of Portland and M. Heston Gildon of
         Rockport; four grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
                                      
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