Ector Co. TX - Obits from the Odessa American Online 21 Oct 2001 Submitted by Charlene Beatty Beauchamp cbodessa@classicnet.net Thanks to the Odessa American Online http://www.oaoa.com/ ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net/ *********************************************************************** OA Online Obituaries. October 21, 2001 James Lamothe MONAHANS - James F. Lamothe, 78, of Pyote, a retired pipe fitting and welding supervisor, died Thursday, Oct. 18, 2001, at Veterans Administration Hospital in Big Spring. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday at Harkey Funeral Home Chapel with Michael Fickenscher officiating. Burial will be at the Pyote Cemetery. Arrangements by Harkey Funeral Home. He was born in Goldthwaite and was a resident of Pyote for 20 years. He was an Army veteran of World War II. He was Lutheran. SURVIVORS: Wife, Louise Lamothe of Pyote; sons, James Richard Lamothe of Seabrook and James Francis Meeks of Topeka, Kan.; daughters, Carolyn Lee Martin of Delaware and Lorna Knott of Supulpa, Okla.; brother, Raymond Forrest Lamothe of Monahans; and seven grandchildren. Tomasa Payen OJINAGA, Mexico - Tomasa Franco Payen, 92, of Odessa, a homemaker, died Friday, Oct. 19, 2001, at an Odessa care center. Mass will be celebrated at 11 a.m. Monday at Nuestro Padre Jesus Catholic Church. Burial will follow at Ultimo Refugio Cemetery. Arrangements by Stanton Memorial Funeral Home and Chapel. She was born in Mulato. SURVIVORS: Sons, Guadalupe Franco Payen and Seferino Franco Payen, both of Pecos, Nabor Franco Payen and Ramon Franco Payen, both of Odessa, and Efrain Franco Payen of Mexico City; daughters, Luz Franco Payen of Chihuahua, Mexico, and Betzua Payen Briones of Ojinaga, Mexico; 40 grandchildren; 52 great-grandchildren; and 10 great-great-grandchildren. Charles Stover ODESSA - Charles Stover, 64, of Odessa died Friday, Oct. 19, 2001, at Hospice House of Odessa. Services are pending with Odessa Funeral Home Angeles Memorial Chapel.