Naveta Thelma Farnsworth Browning

Naveta Thelma Farnsworth Browning, 95, died Monday, October 5, 2009, in Amarillo.

Services were held at 10 a.m. Saturday, October 10, 2009, in the Clarendon Church of Christ with grandson Brad Thompson, officiating and grandsons, Jerry Keeley, Trace Browning, and Steven Browning, assisting. Interment followed at Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon. Services were under the arrangement of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Mrs. Browning, the eldest of nine children, was born May 22, 1914, at Gage, Oklahoma to Fred and Bernice Farnsworth. She graduated from Canadian High School in 1933 and attended Wayland College where she received a teaching certificate in 1936. In 1940 she received a Bachelor of Arts degree from West Texas State Teacher’s College at Canyon, TX. While teaching at a rural school between Adrian and Vega, TX, she met Harold Browning and they were married May 13, 1941.

She taught full-time until Harold was discharged from the army and then continued teaching as a substitute. She was very active in the Vega ISD Parent Teacher’s Association. The Browning’s farmed and ranched in Oldham County thirty three years then moved to Lelia Lake in Donley County in April 1975. In 1998 they moved into Clarendon, TX. She was a member of the Church of Christ where she was very active in the benevolence program, providing food anytime it was needed. She also served as a Sunday school teacher and worked in the World Bible School Program.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Harold Browning and her grandson Lynn Thompson, three brothers, and one sister.

She was survived by three daughters, Sue Thompson and husband Marvin of Clarendon, Patty Browning and Tippy Browning both of Lamesa; two sons Bill Browning and wife Susan of Amarillo, Sam Browning and wife Linda of Miami; three sisters, Lola Kerr of Midland, Marjorie Garrison, of Otis Orchard, WA, Alice Munford of Boulder, CO; one brother Johnny Farnsworth and wife Janie of Memphis; eight grandchildren; fourteen great-grandchildren; and one great-great-granddaughter and many loving nieces and nephews.

Casket bearers were Jeffery Browning, John Browning, Steven Browning, Trace Browning, J. K. Hester, Jerry Keeley, Jeb Stone, Justin Thompson, and Will Thompson. Honorary casket bearers are Mrs. Browning’s granddaughters.

The family suggests memorials be to The Hali Project, 4515 Cornell, Amarillo, TX 79109 or The High Plains Children’s Home of Amarillo.

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