Potter Co. TX - Obits from Amarillo Online Newspapers  17 August 1998
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               Last updated; Monday, August 17, 1998, 6:03 AM
                                      
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   Virgil A.P. Spencer
   PLAINVIEW - Virgil A.P. Spencer, 75, died Saturday, Aug. 15, 1998.
   
   Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Trinity Fellowship Church with
   the Rev. Steve Rogers, pastor, and the Rev. Joe P. Weldon, pastor of
   Parkview Baptist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Parklawn
   Memorial Gardens by Lemons Funeral Home.
   
   Mr. Spencer was born in Bradley's Corner. A Navy veteran, he moved to
   Plainview in 1948. He worked for Totty's Texaco Service, Sears Roebuck
   & Co. and as a mail carrier until he retired in 1978.
   
   Mr. Spencer, a past member of Parkview Baptist Church, did volunteer
   work for the food bank. He was a member of Trinity Fellowship Church,
   the Millennium Singers, SPEBSQSA and a barbershop quartet group.
   
   He married Pat Newton in 1973 at Plainview.
   
   Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Sheila Ann Spain of Lubbock; a
   son, Bobby Spencer of Plainview; four grandchildren; and two
   great-grandchildren.
   
   Dorothy Carson
   OLTON - Dorothy Carson, 83, died Sunday, Aug. 16, 1998.
   
   Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church with the
   Rev. Kyle Streun, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Olton
   Cemetery by Foskey-LilleyMcGill Funeral Home.
   
   Mrs. Carson was born in Crowell. She graduated from high school in
   Brinkman, Okla., and moved to the Olton area from Altus, Okla., in
   1934.
   
   Mrs. Carson was a homemaker. She was a member of First Baptist Church
   and of its T.E.L. Sunday School Class. She was an honorary member of
   the Olton Study Club.
   
   She married Leo Carson in 1933 at Altus. He died in 1996.
   
   Survivors include two sons, Joe Edd Carson of Hale Center and Don
   Leslie Carson of Lebanon, Ore.; a daughter, Jan Whitener of Arlington,
   Va.; a brother, Tom Ross of Flomot; a sister, Elizabeth Andestad of El
   Paso; eight grandchildren; 18 great-grandchildren; and four
   greatgreat-grandchildren.
   
   The family requests memorials be to Olton Ambulance Association, P.O.
   Drawer X, Olton, Texas 79064, or to Olton Cemetery Association, Rte.
   1, Box 28, Olton, Texas 79064.
   
   Opal I. Barnes
   SPEARMAN - Opal I. Barnes, 75, died Saturday, Aug. 15, 1998.
   
   Graveside services will be at 10 a.m. Tuesday in Hansford Cemetery
   with the Rev. Ken Cole, pastor of First United Methodist Church,
   officiating. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home of
   Spearman.
   
   Mrs. Barnes was born in McPherson, Ark. A former resident of San
   Antonio, she lived in the Panhandle for 37 years. She was employed by
   Hansford Hospital District and Northern Natural Gas Co., retiring from
   Northern in 1988.
   
   She married Herschael Barnes in 1950 at Alamogordo, N.M. He died in
   1969.
   
   Survivors include a son, Richard Barnes of Houston; a daughter, Susan
   Jones of Espanola, N.M.; a sister, Elsie Mathews of Spearman; and a
   brother, W.C. Cypert of Borger.