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All rights reserved =========================================================================== Thursday August 01, 2002 Pete Black MIDLAND - Pete Black passed away Tuesday, July 30, 2002, in Knox County Hospital in Knox City. He was born Aug. 26, 1919, in Palestine, Texas, to James and Ellen Black and was raised and educated there. Pete served his country in the U.S. Army during World War II and in 1947 he married Aline Sherrard in Jacksonville. Prior to his retirement Pete was employed by Borden’s Milk for 21 years. He was a member of Ranchland Heights Baptist Church and the Bee Club. He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Aline Black; three sisters; and a brother. Pete was a loving husband, father and grandfather. Pete is survived by his son, Ronnie Black and his wife Pam of Snyder; grandchildren, Jeffery Black and his wife Laura of Odessa, Michael Black of Lubbock and Michelle Wood and her husband Donny of Snyder; and five great-grandchildren, Randy and Rachel Black of Odessa, Cerise Black of Brownwood and Lane and Leah Wood of Snyder. Visitation will be held between the hours of 6 and 8 p.m. today at Ellis Funeral Home. Funeral services have been scheduled for 1 p.m. Friday, Aug. 2, 2002, at Ellis Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Robert Kepple officiating. Interment will follow at Resthaven Memorial Park. Arrangements are under the direction of Ellis Funeral Home. Richard Oland Davis ODESSA - Richard Davis lost his battle to cancer but won the war over pain on Wednesday, July 31, 2002. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 2, 2002, at Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home, with Masonic grave services at Sunset Memorial Gardens in Odessa. Richard O. Davis was born to Susie Mae Whitson and Robert Oland Davis on Sept. 27, 1929, at the "Old Hotel" in Bedias, Grimes County. He and his family lived there for a few years and moved to Milford and then to Midland County. He attended school in Milford, Ellis County, and Midland, Midland County. He enlisted in the United States Navy on Dec. 29, 1951. He served with honor and with great pride and was awarded the National Defense Service Medal, Korean Service Medal, United Nations Medal, Good Conduct Medal and China Seas Medal. He was honorably discharged on Dec. 8, 1955. Richard met Frances Lorean Bullard and they married one month and four days later on June 29, 1957, in Midland, Midland County. They moved to Odessa in April 1963 from Midland. Richard was raised to a Master Mason, in Midland Lodge No. 623, on June 16, 1960. He was constituted a Knight Templar in Midland Commander No. 84 on May 23, 1961, and was initiated into the Suez Shrine at the 1961 Fall Ceremonial in Sweetwater. He took his Scottish Rite Work in the 1976 Fall Ceremony in El Paso. Richard was raised in a one-parent home and many people helped him as he was growing up by instilling in him the value of hard work and the values he has lived by. He was always trying to help people that needed help. Richard has been a newspaper boy, a farmer, wheat harvester and a butcher for Triangle Food Store in Midland. After his four years in the Navy, he bought and ran a laundry route for Snowhite Laundry and Cleaners, owner of Triangle Radiator Service, all of Midland. He owned Odessa Wrecker and Storage, West Texas Carpets, leased his trucks to John B. Barbour Trucking Co. He then started importing forklifts from Japan under the name of Richard Davis Trucks, Inc. He held an auction and started buying commercial real estate. Richard could look at an old piece of equipment or a piece of land and see what needed to be done to make them a workable piece of equipment or land or building that anyone would be proud to own. He was preceded in death by one of his twin daughters, Shirley Othell Davis; his mother, Susie Mae Whitson Davis of Midland; and his mother and father-in-law, Ida True Simmons and Elton W. Graham of Grandfalls, Texas. He is survived by his wife, Frances B. Davis; two daughters and sons-in-law, Paula R. Morris and Randall K. "Randy" Morris of Odessa and Sharron A. Seeker and Jim Richard "Rick" Seeker of McKinney; his sister, Lona Sue Davis and Othel Ike Fitzgerald and their son of Midland; brother-in-law, Claudie B. Bullard of North Richland Hills and his two children of Fort Worth; aunt, Eula Faye "Muttie" Furman of Midland; uncle, Jess P. Whitson of Abilene; grandchildren, Lexie A. Vickers, Zachery S. Vickers of Odessa, Macie M. Seeker and R. Brodie Seeker of McKinney, Chad and wife Jesma Morris, John D. Morris, Kaylee A. Morris and John R. Seeker. He has many cousins and friends and a few enemies. Serving as pallbearers will be Danny Bennett, Ray Caldwell, Thomas Kemp, Jarrett Glass, Blake Martin and Keith Kirkland. Longtime respected friends will serve as honorary pallbearers, John Casselman, Troy Chaffin, Loyd Delcore, A.M. "Slim" Gabrel, Kenneth Hines, Tommy Kemp and Earl Kyzer. Family visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today, Aug. 1, 2002, at Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home. We, the family, would like to thank Dr. Jerry Sims of McKinney for being Richard’s primary physician for the past several years. Also, Dr. Dan Hendrickson of Home Hospice and all of the staff with Home Hospice for the tender loving care shown to Richard and our family. Each and every one of these people deserves stars in their crowns for all of their love, compassion and tenderness. In lieu of flowers, memorials may be make to Hospice House, 903 North Sam Houston, Odessa, Texas. Services entrusted to Hubbard-Kelly Funeral Home. Shirley Gotcher ODESSA - Shirley P. Gotcher, 69 years of age, passed away on July 31, 2002, in San Angelo. She was born June 21, 1933, in Breckenridge. She was a homemaker and a Baptist. Surviving are her husband, Turiel Don Gotcher of Odessa; daughters, Gail Moore, Diane Bowen and Tracy Gotcher, all of Odessa; brother, Gerald Perry of Odessa; sisters, Virginia Brigance of Oklahoma and Mary Brimer of Arkansas; grandchildren, Missy Moore, Tom Moore, Jeremy Bowen and Matthew Bowen; and great-grandchildren, Kandi Warren, Dusty Warren and Bethann Warren. Visitation will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. today, Friday and Saturday at Odessa Funeral Home. Funeral services have not been set at this time. Services by Odessa Funeral Home. Copyright © 1999-2002 Odessa American. All rights reserved.