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September 27, 2001 Permian Basin Obituaries Obituaries Index Dr. Shelby Lee Brumelle VANCOUVER, British Columbia - Shelby Lee Brumelle, 62, of Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, passed away Sunday, Sept. 16, 2001, after a brief but courageous struggle with cancer. Memorial services were held Friday, Sept. 21, 2001, at the Unitarian Church of Vancouver. Shelby was born in Oklahoma and raised in Odessa and graduated from Odessa High School in 1957. Shelby graduated from the California Institute of Technology with a degree in mathematics and from the University of California at Berkeley with a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research. Shelby joined the faculty of Commerce, University of British Columbia, Canada, in 1969 as a member of the management science division (operations and logistics) and worked in that division as a professor emeritus until his retirement June 30, 2000. Shelby made many valuable contributions to the Commerce faculty through his scholarship, scientific publications, through teaching and supervision of students and through his administrative efforts including the chair of the management science division. His dedication to teaching touched and influenced many lives. He is survived by his wife, Karen; sons, Colin and Justin; his mother, Leota Brumelle of Odessa; and two brothers, Kendell of Evergreen, Colo., and Kenneth of Odessa. Memorial contributions may be acknowledged to VGH & UBC Hospital Foundation Palliative Care Unit, 855 W. 12th Ave., Vancouver, B.C., Canada, V5Z 9Z9. Joleine Cathrine Crowe ODESSA - "Let not your heart be troubled; you believe in God, believe also in Me. In My Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you. I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you to Myself; that where I am, there you may be also." John 14: 1-3 Joleine Cathrine Crowe went home to be with our Lord and Savior on Monday, Sept. 24, 2001, at 4:15 p.m. Loving wife, Momma and Nana, her husband, two daughters and son-in-law at her side, she left this world peacefully. Joleine was with us just a short 40 years, but left us memories that her family and friends will never forget. Joleine will be dearly missed, a truly wonderful person. Always thinking and caring about others before herself. Finding out she had cancer a mere six months ago, she fought the illness and pain bravely to the end. Joleine, J.C., as she was known to some, constantly told all that she was going to be all right, that she was going to be healed. She told the truth. She is all right. She was given the most precious healing, to be with our Lord, where there are no worries, no pain, no sickness, to live in heaven for eternity. Joleine loved many things, first and foremost, God, then her family. She was especially proud of her two daughters and two grandsons, always giving up things for herself to give to them. Joleine also loved her work. She was a classroom monitor at Sherwood Christian Academy and considered herself a teacher. During her illness, she was always saying she missed her "kids" at school, that she needed to get back to work. She worried that she needed to be there to help do God's work. Joleine loved her home, simple, but what she wanted, spending hundreds of hours designing and then remodeling her kitchen and living room. She was always adding that personal touch to everything. Joleine was a member of the Goldsmith Volunteer Fire Department, where she served as a firefighter, EMT and ECA, again, helping others. Joleine leaves behind not only her memories, but also part of her lives on in her daughters and grandbabies. Daughters, Cheri' Jones and Melissa Crowe of Goldsmith; grandsons, Tyler Daniel and Matthew Braden; husband, Lynn, with "strict orders" from her to take care of her family; and loving son-in-law, Gabriel, whom she said, Cheri could have found no better. She wanted to thank everyone, her family and many, many friends and neighbors for being there during all of this, offering help, food and prayers. When she knew it was time to go home, she told us she would go to prepare a place for all of us, telling us she would see us again. Knowing Joleine, she is probably redesigning our eternal home now. Joleine, your husband, daughters, grandbabies, son-in-law, family and friends will dearly miss you. We love you and know that you are truly "OK" and "all right" now. Love you, "baby," and we'll see you soon. Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. today, Sept. 27, 2001, at Central Baptist Church, 1401 N. Texas Ave., with Rev. Terry Wright officiating. Interment will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens. Services have been entrusted to Frank W. Wilson Funeral Directors. (www.wilsonfuneral.com) Oleta Beatrice Franklin ODESSA - Oleta Beatrice Franklin, 75, of Odessa passed away Monday, Sept. 24, 2001, at Medical Center Hospital. Services will be at 10 a.m. today, Sept. 27, 2001, at Odessa Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Terry Pierce officiating. Burial will be at Sunset Memorial Gardens. She was born in Round Rock. She was a homemaker and a member of First Church of the Nazarene. She is survived by her sons, Mickey Anderson of Crosby, Wayne Anderson of Pasadena, Tony Anderson and Trevor Anderson, both of Odessa; daughters, Carolyne Benavidez of Odessa and Jan Boesel of Temple; brothers, O.C. Byrd of Belton/Killeen and W.B. Byrd of Brady; 16 grandchildren; and 15 great-grandchildren. Arrangements by Odessa Funeral Home Angeles Memorial Chapel. Donnie R. Moorehead ODESSA - Donnie R. Moorehead, 57, of Odessa went to be with the Lord on Sept. 24, 2001. He was born Jan. 5, 1944, to Leo B. and Juanita Moorehead. Donnie came to Odessa in 1951 from Ardmore, Okla. He worked for Mike Byrds Casing for a number of years. He loved fishing and his children and his grandchildren. His father, Leo Moorehead, and brother, Thomas Slaughter, preceded him in death. Survivors include his daughters, Carrie Blakely of Odessa and Christi Shawell of Houston; stepchildren, Teressa Jimenez of Odessa, Joe Alanis of Conley and Jessie Alanis of Odessa; mother, Juanita Slaughter of Odessa; brother, Mike Slaughter of Denver, Colo.; sisters, Cynthia Bentley and Linda Loper, both of Odessa; and nine grandchildren. Graveside services are scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, 2001, at Sunset Memorial Gardens with the Rev. John Van Hoose officiating. Services entrusted to Sunset Memorial Funeral Home. Elizabeth Turner Lamb BROWNWOOD - Elizabeth Turner Lamb, 93, passed away Monday morning at a Midland hospital following a brief illness. Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 28, 2001, at the Greenleaf Cemetery in Brownwood under the direction of Davis-Morris Funeral Home. Mrs. Lamb was born Feb. 7, 1908, in Santa Anna, Texas, to Fred and Elizabeth Turner. She married James L. Lamb on Aug. 30, 1927. They moved to Odessa in 1947 where she resided until moving to Midland in 1985. She resided at Trinity Towers for the past three years. Mrs. Lamb was preceded in death by her husband in 1984. She is survived by her son, James L. Lamb Jr. of Austin, formerly of Midland; a grandson, James Lamb of Laurel, Md.; and a granddaughter, Lesli Lamb Paul of Charlotte, N.C. She is also survived by a brother, J.D. Turner of Evansville, Ind., and several nieces and nephews. She was a member of the First Presbyterian Church of Odessa and the Daughters of the American Revolution. Memorials may be directed to the Trinity Towers Memorial Fund or to any chosen charity.