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                           OA Online Obituaries.
                                      
                               July 19, 2001
                                      
                          Permian Basin Obituaries
                                      
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   Betty Jean Barclay
   ODESSA Betty Jean Barclay, 70, of Odessa passed away Saturday, July
   14, 2001, at Medical Center Hospital. She was born Aug. 19, 1930, in
   Oklahoma City, Okla.
   Miss Barclay had lived in Odessa since 1951. She was Baptist and an
   active member of MHMR.
   Survivors are her brother, Leonard Barclay and wife Rose of Edmonton,
   Alberta, Canada; sister, Lois Hoover and husband Douglas of Spring
   Hill, Fla.; three nephews, Marty, Gary and Ron Hoover; and niece,
   Pamela Barclay.
   Services will be held at 2 p.m. today, July 19, 2001, at Hubbard-Kelly
   Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Jeff Chapman officiating. Interment
   will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens.
   Services entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home.
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   Oneta F. Thomas
   ODESSA Oneta F. Thomas was born May 16, 1915, in Sanco to Jim and Cora
   Preslar.
   She attended schools in Robert Lee and San Angelo. Oneta married
   William Scott Thomas on Nov. 22, 1937. They moved to Monahans in 1940.
   When Scott went overseas during World War II, Oneta packed parachutes
   at the Pyote Air Force Base. When Scott returned after the war, they
   moved to Odessa in 1946, where he worked for various drilling
   companies until his retirement in 1979. Scott died Nov. 3, 1984.
   Oneta fought a long, hard battle with cancer and heart failure until
   she went to join her beloved Scott in heaven July 16, 2001.
   Oneta loved her church, Crescent Park Baptist, and her Sunday School
   Girls.
   Oneta was preceded in death by her parents, James H. and Cora Preslar;
   her sister, La Veta Preslar Fulks; and a stillborn baby brother.
   Survivors include her brother, Lyndal B. Preslar and his wife Maxine
   of Odessa, five nieces and five nephews.
   Oneta will be in state at Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. Services will
   be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, July 20, 2001, at Sunset Memorial Chapel
   with the Rev. Johnny Dickerson officiating. Burial will follow at
   Sunset Memorial Gardens.
               Arrangements by Sunset Memorial Funeral Home.
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