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                          OA Online Obituaries. 
                                      
                              January 1, 2000
                                      
                          Permian Basin Obituaries
                                      
                                      
    GRANDFALLS — Dorothy Louise Kuykendall, 77, of Grandfalls died
            Thursday, Dec. 30, 1999, at Medical Center Hospital.
                                      
    Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 1, 2000, at First Baptist
   Church with the Rev. Bill Cook officiating. Burial will be at Monahans
          Memorial Cemetery. Arrangements by Harkey Funeral Home.
                                      
      She was born Dec. 23, 1922, in Borger, Okla. She married Phillip
     Rayburn "Jack" Kuykendall Oct. 21, 1940, in Kilgore. They moved to
   Grandfalls in 1945 from Gladewater. He preceded her in death March 12,
                                   1982.
                                      
      She was a retired tax assessor for Grandfalls Independent School
   District. She was a member of First Baptist Church of Grandfalls. She
        was active with Senior Citizens in Grandfalls and Monahans.
                                      
     Survivors include her son, Billy John "Bill" Kuykendall of Odessa;
     sisters, Maxine Rowin of Monahans, Charline Cook of Gladewater and
   Patty Lois Valentine of Port Comfort; three granddaughters; and three
                              great-grandsons.
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       ODESSA — Thelma Francis Tuscana Shrum, 68, of Odessa died
           Wednesday, Dec. 29, 1999, at Medical Center Hospital.
                                      
    Services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Trinity Baptist Church with the
                       Rev. Wes Duckett officiating.
                                      
                     Burial will be in Crane Cemetery.
                                      
                 She was born March 21, 1931, in Corn City.
                                      
    Mrs. Tuscana was a certified nursing assistant. She was a member of
                          Trinity Baptist Church.
                                      
    She was preceded in death by her her first huaband, Tony P. Tuscana;
               and her sisters, Suzie Roberts and Velma Cox.
                                      
      Survivors include her husband, Charles Francis Shrum of Odessa;
      daughter, Mary Hickman of Odessa; son, James Tuscana of Bandera;
   brother, Gene Bryan of San Angelo; sisters, Ruby Dietrich of Rockport,
     Alma Moore of Victoria, Laveda Elliott of Missouri, Mae Elliott of
    Banning, Calif., and Fannie Bryan of San Angelo; four grandchildren;
                       and four great-grandchildren.
                                      
             Services entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.
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