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                          OA Online Death Notices.
                                      
                               July 10, 2001
                                      
                              Mildred Burtner
    CRANE Mildred N. Burtner, 84, of Crane, a retired registered nurse,
          died Friday, July 6, 2001, at Odessa Regional Hospital.
   Services will be at 2 p.m. today at First United Methodist Church with
     the Rev. Craig Mull officiating and at 10 a.m. Friday at St. Pauls
    Episcopal Church in Kansas City, Kan. Burial will follow at Memorial
   Park Cemetery in Kansas City. Arrangements by Shaffer-Nichols Funeral
                                   Home.
     She was born in Kansas City, Kan., and had been a resident before
           moving to Crane four years ago. She was Episcopalian.
   SURVIVORS: Sons, Dale K. Burtner Jr. of Franklin, Ind., and Charles D.
      Burtner of Scottsdale, Ariz.; daughter, Leslie Gregory of Crane;
      brother, Arnold W. Davidson of El Paso; and five grandchildren.
                              Valentine Castro
        RANGER Valentine Val Castro, 50, of Odessa, a mechanic, died
                 Wednesday, July 4, 2001, at his residence.
     Services were at 10 a.m. Saturday at First Baptist Church with the
      Rev. Jerry Speer officiating. Burial was at Evergreen Cemetery.
                   Arrangements by Edwards Funeral Home.
                  He was born in Ranger. He was Catholic.
      SURVIVORS: Wife, Alice Castro of Odessa; sons, Van Castro, Thad
     Castro, Brian Castro and James Castro, all of Odessa; brother, Joe
   Castro of Royce City; sisters, Helen Gomez, Rosa Waltman and Caroline
   Martinez, all of Ranger, Lupe Rodriguez of Cedar Hill and Julia Acosta
                  of Naples, Fla.; and nine grandchildren.
                               Dorothy Losson
   KERMIT Dorothy R. Losson, 65, of Kermit, a sales clerk, died Saturday,
            July 7, 2001, at Kermit Healthcare Center in Kermit.
     Memorial services will be at a later date. Arrangements by Cooper
                              Funeral Chapel.
   She was born in Ada, Okla., and was a resident of Kermit for 11 years.
                              She was Baptist.
      SURVIVORS: Nephew, Billy Joe Campbell Jr. of Odessa; and niece,
                         Lawanna Miller of Odessa.
                                 Erma Parks
   ODESSA Erma Polly Parks, 81, of Odessa, a homemaker, died Monday, July
              9, 2001, at Parks Methodist Retirement Village.
     Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday at Sunset Memorial
     Gardens with the Rev. Jimmy Braswell officiating. Arrangements by
                        Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.
   She was born in Johnson County, Ark., and moved to Odessa in 1982 from
        Tatum, N.M. She was a member of the Assembly of God Church.
   SURVIVORS: Daughters, Beverly Shelton of Lubbock and Melba Cardwell of
       Odessa; brothers, L.E. Berry of Monahans and F.W. Berry Jr. of
   Rockford, Ill.; sisters, Bernice Hartlein of Sikeston, Mo., and Joyce
          Tucker of Davenport, Iowa; four grandchildren; and eight
                            great-grandchildren.
                                      
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