Theola Leeper

Theola Leeper, 76, died Wednesday, July 6, 2011 in Clarendon.

Services were held Saturday, July 9, in Robertson Funeral Directors Saints Roost Chapel in Clarendon with Rev. Darrell Burton, officiating. Internment was held at Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon. Arrangements were held at Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Theola was born April 11, 1935, in Groom to Theo & Minnie Johnson Noble. She married Lloyd Leeper on October 7, 1953, in Clovis, New Mexico. She had been a resident of Clarendon for fifty-two years where she had worked at the Sandell Drive In and the old Mulkey Theater and was known for her delicious hamburgers. She had also worked for several years in the Cafeteria at Clarendon ISD. She was a past member of the Clarendon Jaycettes & First Church of the Nazarene in Clarendon. She was known as Nana to her loving grandchildren and several others.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Lloyd in 1995; and her son, Bobby Ray.

Survivors include her daughter, Nita Ellis and husband Steve of Clarendon; her son, Michael Leeper and wife Teresa of Arvada, CO; her daughter in law, Lacreta Leeper Watson of Amarillo; her grandchildren, Neil

Leeper and wife Catrina of Pampa, Nika Roser and husband Cole of Tucson, AZ, Tara Hutaff and husband Jeremy of Arvada, CO, Jeff Leeper and wife Melissa of Germany, Holly Leeper of Thailand, Chad Ellis and wife Kerri of Shamrock, Keena Ellis Jimenez and husband Hugo of Clarendon, and Jaclyn Benson and husband Robert of Clarendon; her great grandchildren, Kelsi and Toby Leeper, Cole and Jason Roser, Brylee Ellis, Grace Hutaff, Korban, Ian, and Sophie Leeper, Dalton, Jade, Colton, and Madi Benson.

The family requests that memorials be sent to the Donley County Senior Citizens or a favorite charity.