Ector Co. TX - Obits from the Odessa American Online 13 Sept 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.

September 13, 2001 
Permian Basin Obituaries Obituaries Index

Annie Jim White
ODESSA - Annie Jim White, 79, of Odessa passed away Wednesday, Sept. 12, 2001, at her home. She was born June 20, 1922, in Kaufman.
Mrs. White came to Odessa in 1948. She worked for the First National Bank in Odessa for three years and retired from the Ector County Independent School District in July 1978 after 24 years of service. She was past president of the Odessa Educational Secretaries Association, vice president of the Texas Educational Secretaries Association, past matron of the Friendship Chapter No. 1008 of the Order of the Eastern Star, past president of PEO, Chapter DZ (a Philanthropic Educational Organization), a member of the American Business Women's Association, Permian Chapter, member and past elder of First Presbyterian Church and had served on the American Cancer Board.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bryant W. White in 1990.
She is survived by a sister, Katie Bratcher of Dallas; and nephew, Frank O. Garrett of Griffin, Ga.
Services will be held at 7 p.m. today, Sept. 13, 2001, at Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Cheryl Homsher officiating. Interment will be at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 14, 2001, at Restland Memorial Park in Dallas.
In lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to Scottish Rite Hospital for Crippled Children in Dallas or Home Hospice of Odessa.
Services entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home. 
 

 Melvin Allison
ODESSA - Melvin Allison, 70, of Odessa died Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, at his home in Odessa.
Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Sept. 14, 2001, at the McKenzieville Cemetery near Robert Lee with the Rev. Tom Hiser officiating. Services are under the direction of Shaffer-Nichols Funeral Home of Crane.
Mr. Allison was born Aug. 19, 1931, in Silver. He had lived in Odessa since 1964. He was a veteran of the Korean War, serving in the Army. He was a tool pusher and had worked for A.W. Thompson for 26 years and had worked for Santa Fe Drilling until his retirement in 1985. He was a member of Sherwood Baptist Church.
Survivors include his daughter, Loye Marrs of Odessa; two sons, Melvin L. Allison and his wife Marsha of Odessa and Randy Allison and his wife Debbie of Crowley; and four grandsons, Jeff Marrs, Landen Marrs and Darren Marrs, all of Odessa, and Brandon Allison of Keller.
His grandsons will serve as pallbearers.