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                          OA Online Death Notices.
                                      
                                May 05, 2001
                                      
                                Bobby Blair
                                      
     FORT WORTH Bobby Doss Blair, 71, a retired teacher and coach, died
              Sunday, April 29, 2001, at All Saints Hospital.
     Graveside services were held Wednesday at Restlawn Memorial Park.
                Arrangements by Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home.
       He was born in Stephenville and was a resident of Fort Worth.
   SURVIVORS: Wife, Gayle Julian Foster Blair of Fort Worth; sons, Edwin
      G. Blair of Dallas and Steven L. Blair of Allen; stepsons, David
       Foster of Fort Worth and Dale Foster of Little Rock, Ark.; and
                          numerous grandchildren.
                                 Donald Cox
                                      
     BIG SPRING Donald Don Cox, 59, a dispatcher for Basic Energy, died
     Wednesday, May 3, 2001, at Scenic Mountain Medical Center after a
                              sudden illness.
   Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. today at Glenrest Cemetery with
     the Rev. R.T. Havener officiating. Arrangements by Myers and Smith
                          Funeral Home and Chapel.
       He was born in Cement, Okla. and moved to Big Spring in June.
    SURVIVORS: Wife, Lucille Cox of Big Spring; sons, Richard Wright of
       Odessa and Gregory Wright of Chickasha, Okla.; 11 brothers and
                       sisters; and 13 grandchildren.
                                Ryan Holland
                                      
    ODESSA Ryan Kale Holland, infant son of Loyd Brian Holland and Emily
    Beth Buchanan Chamness, both of Big Spring, was stillborn Thursday,
                  May 3, 2001, at Medical Center Hospital.
   Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. today at Sunset Memorial Gardens
          in Odessa. Arrangements by Sunset Memorial Funeral Home.
     SURVIVORS: Parents; grandparents, Phil and Karen Woods of Ackerly,
        Marla and Joe Hensley of Odessa and Jody Buchanan of Odessa;
      great-grandparents, Harold Jordan of Odessa and Bill and Bonnie
   McKelvie of New Castle; and great-grandparents, Edna and Dean Holland
     of Big Spring, Edith Simmons of Snyder and Marie Cashen of Rotan.
                            Thurston Phelps Sr.
                                      
    ANDREWS Thurston H. Phelps, 84, of Andrews died Friday, May 4, 2001,
                                 in Odessa.
         Services are pending with McNett Funeral Home of Andrews.
                                      
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