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   OA Online Obituaries.
   
August 22, 2000

Permian Basin Obituaries

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   ODESSA  Roland  G. Foster, 80, of Odessa, passed away Sunday, Aug. 20,
   2000,  at  Medical  Center  Hospital.  He  was  born Oct. 15, 1919, in
   Oswego, Kansas, to Lester and Mary Elizabeth Foster.
   
   Services  will be at 2 p.m. today at Frank W. Wilson Funeral Directors
   Chapel. The Rev. Ronnie Newton will officiate and interment will be at
   Sunset Memorial Gardens.
   
   Mr. Foster served as a paratrooper in the Army during World War II. He
   graduated  from  Kansas  State  University  in  1949  and received his
   masters  degree  from  Oklahoma  City  University in 1955. He moved to
   Odessa  in  1968 from Tulsa, Okla. On Aug. 31, 1973, he married Janice
   Foil  in  Odessa.  He  loved  Mojo and Dallas Cowboys football and the
   Atlanta  Braves.  He  enjoyed working on cars and attending all of his
   grandchildrens events with them.
   
   Survivors  are wife, Janice Foster of Odessa; children, Lynn Foster of
   Tulsa,  Roxy  Lakey of Austin, R.G. Foster and his wife Hope of Denver
   City  and  Rhinda  Foster of Afton, Okla.; stepchildren, Vicki Vincent
   and  husband  David  of  Odessa,  Jimmy  Smallwood  and  wife Becky of
   Midlothian and Lorna Stell of Odessa; sisters, Mildred Ferch and Betty
   Harrington,  both of Oswego; brother, Lester Foster Jr. of Coffeville,
   Kan.;  11  grandchildren; two great-grandchildren; and many nieces and
   nephews.
   
   Arrangements are by Frank W. Wilson Funeral Directors.
   
   (www.wilsonfuneral.com)
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   ODESSA  Francis "Frank" Xavier Morris, 71, of Odessa, a retired welder
   and  Navy  veteran  of  World  War  II, died Sunday, Aug. 20, 2000, in
   Odessa.
   
   He  was  born  March 12, 1929, in Everett, Mass., to Anna E. Nixon and
   Robert  Robinson  Morris.  He married Francis Mae Morris. His wife and
   his parents preceded him in death.
   
   He  is  survived  by daughters Debra Diane Morris and husband Bert and
   Yvonne  Marie  Morris  and husband Tommy, all of Odessa; grandchildren
   Cory  Morris  of  San  Antonio,  Robert  LaChance,  Misty McDuffee and
   husband  Tony,  Brian  Morris,  Lance  Morris and Amber Allred, all of
   Odessa;  sisters  Mildred  Benoit, Anne Stone and Ethel OBrien, all of
   Massachusetts; and brother William Morris of Massachusetts.
   
   Services  will  be  at  2  p.m. Thursday at Martinez Funeral Home with
   Chaplain  Dick  Brown  officiating. Burial will be at the Ector County
   Cemetery.  Visitation  will  be  from 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Wednesday and 9
   a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Thursday. Arrangements by Martinez Funeral Home.
   
   He  was  a  loving  father, grandfather and friend. He will be greatly
   missed by all of us.
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   Leonard McClure
   
   SEMINOLE  Leonard  McClure,  61,  of  Seminole, died Saturday Aug. 19,
   2000, in Lubbock.
   
   Funeral services will held at 11 a.m. Wednesday at the Ratliff Funeral
   Home  Chapel  with  Charles  Dodd, youth minister of the First Baptist
   Church  of  Midland  officiating.  Interment will follow at the Gaines
   County Cemetery (South) under the direction of Ratliff Funeral Home.
   
   Leonard was born June 7, 1939, in Shelby, Mo. He married Alberta Kovak
   Feb.  2,  1974,  in  Houston.  He  had  been  employed by Amerada Hess
   Corporation as a piping design draftsman for 14 years. He and his wife
   moved  to  Seminole in 1986. He was a member of the National Institute
   for  Engineering  Technologies,  which  is  sponsored  by the National
   Society  of  Professional  Engineers,  and  was  a member of the First
   Baptist Church of Midland.
   
   He  is survived by his wife, Berti of Seminole; one son, Jerry McClure
   of  Burlington,  Iowa;  one  daughter,  Melissa Summey of Cotulla; one
   brother,  James  McClure of Shelbina, Mo.; two sisters, Carlene Carrol
   and Rose Livers, both of Honeywell, Mo.; and two grandchildren, Nathan
   McClure and Madison Summey.
   
   In  lieu  of  flowers,  donations  may  be made to the American Cancer
   Society.
   
   Pallbearers  will  be Roy McClure, Matthew Summey, Jimmy Bittle, Kenny
   Powell, Henry Beare and Dallas Renfrew.
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