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                           OA Online Obituaries.
                                      
                               April 28, 2000
                                      
                          Permian Basin Obituaries
                                      
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                              Mary Sue Lambert
                                      
    CEDAR GAP — Mary Sue Lambert, 67, died Tuesday, April 25, 2000,
                          in an Abilene hospital.
                                      
   Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, April 28, 2000, in the First United
   Methodist Church with Brother Fred Sandlin officiating. Burial will be
      in Cedar Gap Cemetery, directed by Fry-Bartlett Funeral Home of
                                  Tuscola.
                                      
    Mrs. Lambert was born in Ovalo. She graduated from South Taylor High
    School, now Jim Ned High School. She moved to Odessa from Abilene in
    1964 and returned to Cedar Gap in 1977. She worked for Abilene State
             School from 1978 to 1993 and retired at that time.
                                      
    She was a member of Highland Methodist Church in Odessa. She married
                      Richard Thomas Lambert in 1951.
                                      
    Survivors include her husband, Richard, of Cedar Gap; daughters and
    sons-in-law, Debra and Steve Wilson of Odessa and Tammie and Robert
   Graham of Tuscola; sons and daughters-in-law, Tommy and Wilma Lambert
    of Odessa and Jack and Jenna Lambert of Odessa; sisters, Helen Sims
   and Hazel Shoopman, both of Abilene and Billie Reddell of Pampa; seven
    grandchildren, Brian Wilson and Jason Graham, both of Austin, Emily
    Graham of Tuscola, Chris Wilson, Chad Lambert, Ben Lambert and Sarah
            Lambert, all of Odessa; and many nieces and nephews.
                                      
      Memorials may be made to Hendrick Hospice Care, P. O. Box 1922,
                             Abilene, TX 79604.
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   ODESSA — Joseph D. Torrez, 48, of Odessa died Thursday, April 27,
                  2000, at San Angelo Community Hospital.
                                      
      A prayer service will be at 7 p.m. Friday at Odessa Funeral Home
                                  Chapel.
                                      
    Services will be at 10 a.m. Saturday at Odessa Funeral Home Chapel.
    Burial will be at Rose Hill Cemetery. Arrangements by Odessa Funeral
                       Home Angeles Memorial Chapel.
                                      
                       He was born in Carlsbad, N.M.
                                      
    Survivors include his wife, Tammy Bryant Torrez of San Angelo; son,
   Chad Torrez of Dallas; stepson, Aaron Bryant of San Angelo; daughter,
    Annette Esquivel of Temple; stepdaughter, Tara Bryant of San Angelo;
       mother, Carmen Torrez of Odessa; brother, Ricardo Gonzales of
   Carlsbad, N.M.; sisters, Gloria Turner of Odessa and Juana Gonzales of
   Carlsbad; aunts, Minga Urbina of Odessa, Mary Hernandez of Fort Worth,
     Socorro Estrada of Odessa and Betty Valverde of Albuquerque, N.M.;
      uncles, Luis Sanchez of Carlsbad, N.M., Chilo Chancho and Manuel
      Estrada; six nephews; three nieces; and nine great-grandnieces.
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