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   OA Online Obituaries. 
   
April 08, 1999

Permian Basin Obituaries

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   ODESSA -- Services for Clyde Cecil Coplin, 82, of Odessa will be at 10
   a.m.  Friday  at Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home with the Rev. Larry Garnto
   officiating. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
   
   Mr.  Coplin died Wednesday, April 7, 1999, at Medical Center Hospital.
   He  was born Oct. 6, 1916, in Weiser, Idaho. He married Rita Gabrielle
   Allaire Sept. 12, 1945, in Fitchburg, Mass.
   
   Mr.  Coplin  has  lived  in  Odessa  since  1983.  He  was  a  retired
   construction  superintendent  for  Shell Oil Company. He served in the
   45th Division in the U.S. Army during World War II.
   
   He was preceded in death by a son, Michael Coplin.
   
   Survivors  his  wife,  Rita Coplin of Odessa; sister, Bertha Curtis of
   Fort Worth; and numerous nieces and nephews.
   
   Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.
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   ODESSA  -- Rynda K. Dunnam, 31, of Odessa, died Monday, April 5, 1999,
   at  Medical  Center Hospital. She was born April 9, 1967, in Odessa to
   Billy H. and Ruth Dunnam.
   
   Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, April 8, 1999, at Temple Baptist
   Church  with  the  Rev.  Dr. Griffin Jones officiating. Interment will
   follow  at  Sunset  Memorial  Gardens  under the direction of Frank W.
   Wilson Funeral Directors.
   
   Rynda  was  a  lifelong  resident  of Odessa. She had plans to plant a
   garden  and  she  loved  flowers. She also was involved with the State
   Commission for the Blind. She loved animals and her daughter.
   
   She  was  preceded  in  death  by her father, Billy H. Dunnam; and her
   brother, Ronald Dean Dunnam.
   
   She  is  survived  by  her daughter, Krystal Dunnam of Odessa; mother,
   Ruth   Dunnam  of  Odessa;  brother,  Alan  Dale  Dunnam  of  Houston;
   grandparents,  Toy  and  Willis McGowin of Okmulgee, Okla., and Lillie
   Dunnam  of Paris, Texas; sister-in-law, Jane Dunnam of Houston; aunts,
   Marilyn  Kuban  of  Fort  Worth,  Nona  Johnson of Terrell and Juanita
   Brawner  of  Paris,  Texas;  uncle, Stanley McGowin of Eldorado, Kan.;
   nephews,  Christopher  Dunnam,  Randy  and  Matthew  Berggren,  all of
   Houston.
   
   If  desired,  memorial  gifts  may  be  made  to the Juvenile Diabetes
   Association.
   
   Emma Estelle
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   FORT  WORTH  -- Emma Estelle Terry Lawson was born to Aubrey and Annie
   Terry  Dec. 9, 1910, in Trent. She grew up in Trent and graduated from
   John Tarleton State College.
   
   Mrs.   Lawson  taught  school  before  working  for  the  Texas  State
   Department  of  Welfare.  She  worked  in  Levelland,  San Antonio and
   Odessa.  Mrs.  Lawson was area supervisor for the West Texas region of
   the Texas Department of Welfare in Odessa. She retired in 1969.
   
   She  resided  in  Fort  Worth  until  1995  when  she  moved to Camilu
   Retirement Village in Austin.
   
   Upon  her  death  April 6, 1999, she was a resident of Parks Methodist
   Retirement Home in Odessa. Mrs. Lawson was a Baptist.
   
   She  is  survived by a daughter, Virginia Ann Watkins and her husband,
   Wally, of Everett, Wash.; a son, Ted Lawson of Odessa; a brother, A.C.
   Terry  and  his  wife,  Verne, of Fort Worth; a sister-in-law, Maurine
   Terry    of   Fort   Worth;   numerous   nieces,   grandchildren   and
   great-grandchildren.
   
   Services  will  be at 9:30 a.m. Friday, April 9, 1999, at Mount Olivet
   Funeral  Home  in  Fort  Worth  with  the Rev. H.B. Terry officiating.
   Burial will be at 2 p.m. Friday at Merkel Cemetery in Merkel.
   
   Funeral arrangements are by Mount Olivet Funeral Home.
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