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                           OA Online Obituaries.
                                      
                               June 11, 2001
                                      
                          Permian Basin Obituaries
                                      
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   Mary Tyree
   
   ODESSA Mary Estelle Tyree, 79, of Odessa, passed away Saturday, June
   9, 2001, at Avalon Place.
   Services are scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 12, 2001, at Sunset
   Memorial Chapel with the Rev. Melvin Warren of First Baptist Church
   officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
   Mary was born in Colorado City on March 31, 1922, to Luther and Viola
   Winberry Gaskins. She married Thomas Tunstall Tyree on July 2, 1942,
   in San Angelo and they moved to Odessa in 1951. Her parents; a
   brother, Lynton Gaskins; and two sisters, Vera Neuland and Doris
   Newman preceded her in death.
   Mary Tyree was a member of the American Poetry Society and had
   published both Christian music and poetry. She was a member of First
   Baptist Church.
   Mary was a devout Christian; she loved her church and the Lord. She
   devoted her time to Christian poetry and music. Mary never had a bad
   thought.
   Survivors include her son, Terry T. Tyree and wife Carla of Odessa; a
   brother, Conrad Gaskins of West Monroe, La.; a daughter-in-law, Judy
   Tyree; three grandchildren, Tiffany Tyree Barnes, Heather Diane Smith
   and Hilary Tyree; and a great-granddaughter, Hanna Renault.
   The family requests that memorial donations be made to Home Hospice or
   Meals on Wheels.
   Pallbearers for the service will be Jim McKay, Mac McLemore, Kenny
   Broyles, Sonny Henderson, Daren Webster and Marilyn McVean. Honorary
   pallbearers are Vern Foreman and Conrad Roberson.
               Arrangements by Sunset Memorial Funeral Home.
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