Jean Baten

Jean Baten, 84, died March 4, 2011, in Lubbock.

Services were will be held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, March 10, in Robertson Funeral Directors Saints’ Roost Chapel in Clarendon with Rev. Bob Fagan, Pastor of Memorial Baptist Church in Lubbock, and Rev. Wayne Richardson, Pastor of Lighthouse Pentecostal Church in Del Rio, officiating. Interment will be at Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon. Arrangements were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Mrs. Baten was born March 18, 1926, in Hall County, Texas, to William Edward and Emma Melissa Moore Gregory. She married Barney Mack Baten on December 23, 1944, in Clarendon.

Jean worked as a Business Office Supervisor for GTE Telephone Company where she retired after 28 ½ years of service. She was a former member of E.S.A. – Beta Tay Chapter, member of Memphis Trail Riders and the Clarendon Ladies Golf Association, and was active with the Donley County Senior Citizens Association serving as Director for several years. She was a member and attended the First Baptist Church.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Barney Mack Baten on May 22, 1988; her twin sister, Lora Dean in 1935; her brother, Weldon Gregory; her sister, Margie Duggins; and her long time friend, Roy Chauveaux.

Survivors include her daughter, LaQuitta Jean Perry and husband John, of Lubbock; her sister, Jaunita Meador, of California; her sister-in-law, Barnetta Perdue, of Amarillo; two grandchildren, Ben Perry and wife Vanessa, of Dewey, AZ, and Lauri Perry, of Amarillo; five great-grandchildren, Drew, Cody, Becca, Amy, and Myla Perry, all of Dewey, AZ; “adopted” granddaughter, Jane Howk, of Amarillo; and two “adopted” great grandchildren, Grant and Kate Howk, of Amarillo.

The family suggests memorials to the Donley County Senior Citizens, PO Drawer B, Clarendon, Texas 79226 or to one’s favorite charity.