Swisher Co. TX - Obit for Irene Sinclair Markham (Mrs. B. F. Markham) Submitted by: David Morgan (thanks to Zoe Smith for sending it) Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ------------------------------------------------ The Tulia Herald 20 January 1983 IRENE MARKHAM HEREFORD - Services for Irene Markham, 84, were held Wednesday in First Baptist Church with Rev. Doug Manning officiating. Burial was in Westpark Cemetery under direction of Gilland Watson Funeral Home. Mrs. Markham was born in Bell County. She married B. F. Markham in 1922 at Tulia. He died in 1969. She moved to Hereford in 1950 from Tulia. She was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church. Survivors include a son, Charles A. Markham of San Antonio; two daughters, Mrs. James Higgins of Hereford and Mrs. Jim Spencer of Odessa; three sisters, Bess Atkinson, Polly Edmonds and Mrs. Hoyt Crow, all of Kerrville; 11 grandchildren; and 8 great grandchildren.