Alvie Thomas Clay

Alvie Thomas Clay, 84, died Friday, August 19, 2011, in Hedley.

Services were held Monday, August 22, in the Calvary Baptist Church in Clarendon with Rev. Rob Seale, Pastor, officiating. Interment with Military Honors was held in Quail Cemetery in Quail. Arrangements were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Mr. Clay was born June 28, 1927, in Hedley to William and Mary E. Burdine Clay. He married Wanda Vinyard on December 27, 1986, in Quail. He had been a lifetime resident of Hedley. He was a US Army and US Army Air Force veteran serving during the end of World War II and the Korean War. He was a 65 year member of American Legion Adamson-Lane Post 287 in Hedley and was a member of the Calvary Baptist Church in Clarendon.
He was preceded in death by his parents; three sisters, Peggy Dawson, Mildred Langley, and Avyrilla White.

Survivors include his wife, Wanda of Hedley; two sons, Preston Lynn Blair of Cleburne and Darrell Glenn Blair of Arlington; a daughter, Debra Gumfory of Abilene; two brothers in law, Lynn Dawson of San Antonio and Delbert White of Quail; a sister, Addierene Mickels and husband Joe of Santa Maria, CA; twelve grandchildren; twenty-five great-grandchildren; one great-great grandchild; and numerous nieces & nephews.

The family requests that memorials be sent to the American Legion Adamson-Lane Post 287 in Hedley or Odyssey Hospice.