Freestone County, Texas 
Obits

Obits from Amarillo Online Newspapers  - 15 July 1997 edition

Clayton Ward Bond

FLOMOT - Clayton Ward Bond, 87, died Sunday, July 13, 1997, in
Amarillo.
   
Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Flomot Baptist Church with the
Rev. Nathan Mulder, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Flomot
Cemetery by Myers-Long Funeral Directors.
   
Mr. Bond was born in Freestone County and moved to West Texas when 
he was a teen-ager. He settled in South Plains in 1928 as a depot agent
for the Fort Worth and Denver Railroad. He retired from the railroad
in 1973 after 45 years of service.
   
He married Laura Louise Haverty in 1932 at Amarillo. She died in 
1973. He also was preceded in death by two daughters, Sharon Ann Bond in
1943 and Jane Adell Bond in 1958.
   
Mr. Bond married Laura Bernice Tanner Gates in 1961 at Flomot. They
moved to Flomot from South Plains in 1961.
   
He farmed in the South Plains townsite and broke and trained horses
for numerous stockmen all over West Texas. He also rebuilt pianos and
provided them to families.
   
He was a member of First Baptist Church in South Plains for 33 years
and of Flomot Baptist Church for 36 years.
   
Survivors include his wife; a son, Victor Bond of Tulsa, Okla.; a
stepson, Weldon Gates of Temecula, Calif.; four half sisters, June
Reglen of Houston, Charlesie Tittsworth of Wichita Falls, Elinor
Dorning of Dallas and Jeannine Huckabee of Rowlett; two grandsons;
three stepgranddaughters; three great-grandsons; and five
step-great-grandchildren.