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   OA Online Obituaries. 
   
June 02, 1999

Permian Basin Obituaries

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   ODESSA -- Mass for Jesus R. Renteria, 79, of Odessa will be celebrated
   at  10  a.m.  Thursday  at  St.  Joseph  Catholic Church with the Rev.
   Gilbert  Rodriguez  officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery.
   Rosary will be said at 7:30 p.m. today at Martinez Funeral Home.
   
   His grandsons will serve as pallbearers.
   
   Visitation  will  be  from  8 a.m. to 10 p.m. today and from 8 to 9:40
   a.m. Thursday at the Martinez Funeral Home Chapel.
   
   Mr.  Renteria  died Sunday May 30, 1999, at Medical Center Hospital in
   Odessa.  He  was born March 3, 1920, in Candelaria. He married Socorro
   Ramos  in  1942  and  came  to Odessa in 1943 from Balmorhea. He was a
   retired engineer and worked at Medical Center Hospital.
   
   He  was  an Army veteran of World War II. He was Catholic and attended
   St. Joseph Catholic Church in Odessa.
   
   He was preceded in death by his father, Gregorio Renteria; his mother,
   Pomposa Ornelas; and his sons, Jesus Renteria Jr. and Jose Renteria.
   
   Survivors   include  his  wife,  Socorro  Renteria  of  Odessa;  seven
   daughters, Maria Yolanda Lopez, Helen Leon, Creselda Renteria, Belinda
   Olivas,  and  Joanna  Renteria,  all  of Odessa, and Linda Martinez of
   Austin;  four  sons,  David  Renteria,  Manuel  Renteria, Mark Anthony
   Renteria  and  Joe  Brian  Renteria,  all  of  Odessa; brothers, Trine
   Ornelas  of  Roswell,  N.M.,  Felipe  Ornelas  of Balmorhea and Manuel
   Sauceda  of  Odessa; sisters, Monce Olivas of Muleshoe, Apolonia Rayos
   of Odessa, Maria Riveria of El Indio, Calif., and Alejandra Ornelas of
   Balmorhea; 31 grandchildren; and 26 great-grandchildren.
   
   Funeral arrangements are by Martinez Funeral Home.
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   Clovis Fink
   
   ODESSA -- Clovis Joyce Fink, 87, of Oklahoma City, passed away May 29,
   1999.
   
   She  was born Oct. 30, 1911, in Tipton, Okla., to Love and John Thomas
   McAmis.
   
   Mrs.  Fink  worked  for  Southwestern  Bell Telephone Company for many
   years.  She  married David N. Fink Sept. 14, 1946, and moved to Odessa
   where they lived until Mr. Fink's death in 1986.
   
   Mrs.  Fink  returned  to  Oklahoma  City where she was a member of St.
   Augustine's Episcopal Church.
   
   Mrs.  Fink  was  preceded in death by her parents; her brother, Jarvis
   Twain McAmis, and her beloved sisters, Fetna Green and Jean Ritzhaupt.
   She  is  survived  by her loving sister, Kiki Yeakel of Oklahoma City;
   her  nieces, Cai Morgan Glackin of Dallas and Linda Ward of San Diego,
   Calif., and her nephews, Bill Ritzhaupt of Dallas and Bob Ritzhaupt of
   Pottsboro, Texas.
   
   Graveside  services  will be held at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Odessa
   at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday.
   
   Arrangements entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.
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   Nettie A. Williford
   
   COMANCHE  -- Nettie A. Williford, 75, of Comanche, formerly of Odessa,
   passed away Monday at 12:10 p.m. in Oak Ridge Manor in Brownwood.
   
   She  was  born  March  12, 1925, in Comanche, the daughter of the late
   Edward  and  Rachel P. Tiner Boynton. She married Durward V. Williford
   on  Oct. 14, 1945, in De Leon. She was a homemaker and a member of the
   First Baptist Church of Comanche.
   
   Funeral  services  will  be  at  10:30  a.m.  today in the Hall & Sons
   Funeral  Home Chapel with the Rev. Richard Ivey officiating. Interment
   will follow in Mercer Gap Cemetery.
   
   Mrs.  Williford is survived by her husband, Durward, of Brownwood; one
   daughter, Barbara Tate and her husband, Jim, of Mexia; one son, Victor
   Williford  of  Odessa;  three  sisters,  Frances  Carroll  and Modelle
   Townsend,  both  of  Brownwood,  and  Jessie  Lee  Day of Odessa; five
   granddaughters,  Sarah  Cecil, Shelley Williford and Sherri Williford,
   all   of   Odessa,  Debra  Tate  of  Paris  and  Rachel  Glidewell  of
   Jacksonville;  one  grandson,  Charles  Williford  of  Odessa, and one
   great-granddaughter, Megan Kenny of Odessa.
   
   Lunch  for  the  family  will  be served following the service at noon
   today in the fellowship hall of the First Baptist Church in Comanche.
   
   Memorials  may be made to the First Baptist Church of Comanche, Mercer
   Gap Cemetery or Oakwood Cemetery in Comanche.
   
   Funeral arrangements are by Hall & Sons Funeral Home.
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