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                         OA Online Death Notices. 
                                      
                               August 1, 1999
                                      
                        Permian Basin Death Notices
                                      
                              MaryEllen Lorton
      GARDEN GROVE, CALIF. — MaryEllen Lorton, 76, of Odessa died
                    Friday, July 30, 1999, at her home.
   Services will be at 3 p.m. today at Hubbard-Kelly Chapel with the Rev.
       Jimmy Braswell officiating. Entombment will be at the Crystal
      Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif. Arrangements by Hubbard-Kelly
                             Funeral Home Inc.
       She was born in Lincoln, Neb., and was a member of the Crystal
                     Cathedral in Garden Grove, Calif.
         SURVIVORS: Daughter, Jane Lorton Meisinger of Odessa; four
                grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
                           Gertie Whitworth Owens
    MOUNTAIN FORK, ARK. — Gertie Whitworth Owens, 90, a former head
   cook for a nursing home, of Mena, Ark., died Thursday, July 29, 1999.
   Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Beasley-Wood Chapel with
      Larry Hobbs officiating. Burial will follow in the Mountain Fork
            Cemetery. Arrangements by Beasley-Wood Funeral Home.
    She was born in Polk County, Ark., and was a former Odessa resident.
                              She was Baptist.
   SURVIVORS: Sons, Donald W. Whitworth of Mena, Ark., Emery C. Whitworth
   of Columbia, S.C., Doyle Ray Whitworth of Odessa, John A. Whitworth of
      Childersberg, Ala., and Roger A. Whitworth of Gresham, Germany;
     daughter, Macel G. Snider of Williston, Fla., brother, Roy Hill of
    Mesa, Ariz.; sister, Euna Redding of Mesa, Ariz.; 20 grandchildren;
       and several great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren.
                               Bill Wyche Jr.
   ANDREWS — Bill Wyche Jr., 75, of Andrews, a rancher, died Friday,
                July 30, 1999, at Permian General Hospital.
   Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Means Memorial United Methodist
    Church with the Revs. Jim Terry and Wilbur Gaede officiating. Burial
    will follow at Andrews West Cemetery. Arrangements by McNett Funeral
                                   Home.
   He was born in Midland. He was an Army veteran of World War II and was
                                 Methodist.
    SURVIVORS: Wife, Ruth Wyche of Andrews; daughters, Nancy Hickman of
      Montara, Calif., Cindy Stroman of Sweetwater, and Sara Wyche of
    Irving; sister, Joan Sammons of San Angelo; and three grandchildren.
                                      
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