Hockley Co., TX - Obits: Billy Thurman ************************************************* File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: (unknown) Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************* (Wednesday, July 31, 2002 - The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal) Billy Thurman TULIA — Services for Billy Edwin Thurman, 67, of Bartlesville, Okla., will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Tulia First Baptist Chapel with the Rev. Charles Davenport officiating. He died Thursday July 25, 2002. He was born June 7, 1935, in Ropesville. He attended schools in Ropesville and in Bentonville, Ark. He married Mary Nell Davidson in Hiwasse, Ark., on Feb. 14, 1953. He also lived in Kansas City, Mo., Tulia and Dallas. He was a manufacturing drafting inspector. Survivors include two daughters, Kathy Attebury of Port Arthur and Mary Ann Hopper of Grants Pass, Ore.; a brother, Grady of Bartlesville; four sisters, Claudine May of Silverton, Betty Starnes of Tulia, Lou Denton of Albuquerque, N.M., and Ann Mayfield of Ropesville; and three grandchildren.