Mildred Josephine Clayton

Mildred Josephine Clayton, 92, died Wednesday, September 23, 2009, in Memphis.

Services were held at 10 a.m. Monday, September 28, 2009 in the First United Methodist Church in Memphis with Rev. Mike Davis, Pastor of the First Assembly of God in Memphis, officiating Interment followed at Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon. Services were under the arrangement of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Mrs. Clayton was born May 25, 1917, in Lakeview to Robert Andrew and Mary Delia Cox Brame. She married James Thomas “J.T.” Clayton on January 7, 1937, in Amarillo. She had been married to her husband 72 years and 7 months. She had been a longtime resident of Memphis. She cared for the elderly in their homes with such a kindness. She also raised a lot of children as her own. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Memphis.

She was preceded in death by her husband, on August 18, 2009; her parents; five brothers and three sisters.
Survivors include a son, Dwight Clayton and wife Linda of Memphis; two daughters, Elaine Potter and husband Doug of Houston and Diane Conatser and husband Johnny of Memphis; a sister, Maud Pauline Gibson of Dallas; seven grandchildren, Victoria Weber and husband Bill, Russell Potter and wife Erin, Brian Clayton and wife Melissa, Brett Clayton and wife Felisha, Jason, Bradley, and Skyler Conatser; five great grandchildren, Travis, Courtney, and Amanda Weber, Jaycee Conatser, and Kayla Clayton.

The family requests memorials be to Alzheimer’s Research or Citizens Cemetery Association, PO Box 983, Clarendon, Texas 79226.
Sign our online guestbook at www.RobertsonFuneral.com.