Obituaries

Patricia Ann Archuleta, 61, died June 16, 2012, in Amarillo.

Memorial services will be held at 3:00 p.m. on Sunday, June 24, 2012, at the First United Methodist Church of Clarendon with Rev. Lloyd Stice, pastor, Pastor Donna Johnston, Pastoral Care, First United Methodist Church, and Pierre Moranza, KMMI Ministries, officiating. Services were under the direction of Brooks Funeral Directors.

Patricia Ann Archuleta was born on May 7, 1951 in Amarillo to George and Alma Tomberlin Hughes. She was a 1969 graduate of Amarillo High School and received her Bachelor of Science degree from St. Mary’s of the Plains.

She was a basic EMT and was pursuing her intermediate EMT license. She married Daniel “Archie” Archuleta in April of 1979. Patricia was a school teacher, a beautician, and taught cosmetology. She was an avid quilter and seamstress and owned Stitch by Design in Clarendon.

She worked as the Dispatcher / Jailer for Donley County Sheriff’s Office and was the secretary for First United Methodist Church of Clarendon and the Clarendon Chamber of Commerce. She volunteered in numerous ministries including Kairos Outside, and was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Clarendon, the Red Cross, and many other organizations.

Patricia was preceded in death by her husband on February 26, 2002, by her parents, a brother, George “Skeeter” Hughes, a half sister, Louise Payne, and a brother-in-law, Jack Holt.

Survivors include her son, Jason Archuleta and wife, Amy, of Amarillo; two grandchildren, Rylan and Kasen Archuleta; two sisters, Corky Holt, of Beaumont, Texas, and Sue Carney and husband, Mike, of Rogers, AR; and a host of friends and family.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be to Kairos Outside, Amarillo & Panhandle Region, PO Box 51012, Amarillo, TX 79159, Clarendon EMS, PO Box 1240, Clarendon, TX 79226, or First United Methodist Church of Clarendon, PO Box 157, Clarendon, TX 79226.

Dorothy Helms Grady, 85, Died Saturday, June 16, 2012, in Clarendon, Texas

Services were held on Monday, June 18, 2012, in Robertson Funeral Directors Saints Roost Chapel in Clarendon with Rev. Eddy Helms, Pastor of the Calvary Baptist Church of Tulia and her son, officiating.

Services were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Dorothy was born February 27, 1927, in McKinney to John William and Pearl Laird Boswell. She married John Warren “J.W.” Helms on August 2, 1941 in Hollis, Oklahoma. He preceded her in death on April 14, 1991. She later married Ralph Grady on January 3, 1993 in Clarendon.

He preceded her in death on December 3, 2006. She had been a resident of Donley County since 1948, was a homemaker, and a member of the First Nazarene Church in Clarendon.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husbands; a son, Roy Lee Helms; 3 brothers and a sister.

She is survived by two sons, Larry Helms and wife Lura of Clarendon and Eddy Helms and wife Joburta of Tulia; a daughter, Leveta Klinnert and husband Roddy of Amarillo; a daughter in law, Barbara Helms of Clarendon; 11 grandchildren; 20 great grandchildren; and 16 great great grandchildren.

The family request memorials be sent to a favorite charity.

Henry Wendell Talley, 70, of Clarendon, died Monday, Monday, April 30, 2012, in Topeka, Kansas.

Services will be held at 11:00 a.m. on Friday, June 8, 2012, in Robertson Funeral Directors Saints Roost Chapel in Clarendon with Don Stone, officiating.

Inurnment with US Air Force Honors will be in Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon.

Services are under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

He was born June 2, 1941, in Hedley, to Wanna Mae Carothers Talley and Emery W. Talley. Talley was always interested in our country and all the elected officials of his choice. He stayed in contact with them and supported them. He served his country in the United States Air Force and was stationed in Thailand in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and he was a jet mechanic and served on bombing missions over North Vietnam. He enjoyed reading his Bible and was quite knowledgeable about the scriptures. He was a member of the Church of Christ. Tally had many friends in Clarendon who were helpful and supportive of him in years past. For this the family is extremely grateful.

He was preceded in death by his parents.

He is survived by his two sisters, Maxine Robinson of Clarendon and Judy Hays of Bingam, New Mexico; three nieces, Mona Oney of Cleburne, Lori Robinson of Clarendon, and Christina Childress of Lubbock; one nephew, Clint Robinson of Lubbock; and several great nieces and nephews.

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Mearlene Hooker-Scott, age 77, of Clarendon, died Saturday, May 5, 2012 in Amarillo.

Services were held at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at the First United Methodist Church of Mobeetie with Curtis Johnson, pastor of New Beginnings Baptist Church of Amarillo and Carlos Rodriguez, grandson officiating. Burial will be at Mobeetie Cemetery. Arrangements are by Rector Funeral Home Osage Chapel 2800 S. Osage St. Mrs. Scott was born in Mobeetie. She graduated from Mobeetie High School in 1952. She moved to Amarillo in 1954. She worked in food service at the Amarillo Air Force Base for several years, until it closed. She also worked in food service at Albertsons and retired from the food service department of the TDCJ Clements Unit.

Mrs. Scott loved to cook and bake for her family and others. She also enjoyed crocheting. She married Bill Scott in 1952 at Clovis. She was a very loving wife, mother, grandmother, great-grandmother and friend. She also enjoyed studying the genealogy of her family.

She is survived by her husband of the home, 3 daughters, Ginger Scott Freitas and Brenda Long, both of Amarillo and Lisa Lethco and her husband Mark of Ding Dong; 2 sons, Russell Scott and his wife Monica and Robert Scott and his wife Suzette all of Amarillo; 5 sisters, Peggy Shelton of Perryton, Ellen Moore of Tucson, AZ, Joyce McIntire of Amarillo, Inez Moore and Sue Harrison both of Mobeetie; 14 grandchildren and 21 great-grandchildren.

The family suggests memorial donation to the First United Methodist Church of Mobeetie.

Gene Earl Alderson, age 73, died Saturday, May 5, 2012. A devoted husband, a loving father, grandfather and a faithful man of God, he was loved and respected by many and our sadness is only surpassed by our joy in knowing he is with his Heavenly Father.

Services were held Wednesday, May 9th, 2012, at 10:00 a.m. in First Baptist Church, Clarendon. Burial will be in Citizens Cemetery under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors.

Gene was born in Adair Hospital in Clarendon, Texas on January 11, 1939.

The son of Earl and Margarette Christal Alderson, he attended Clarendon schools and graduated from Clarendon College. He completed his education at Southern Methodist University in 1961 with a degree in Marketing. He and Tiny Drake were married June 3, 1961, in Midland, Texas, and he joined his parents in the operation of Alderson Chevrolet.

In 1965, he attended the Chevrolet School of Merchandising and Management in Detroit, Michigan. Earl Alderson passed away shortly after Gene’s return to Clarendon, and for a time, Gene was the youngest Chevrolet Dealer in the United States. He combined both his business and love of cars as a Chevrolet Dealer for over 25 years. After closing the dealership, Gene obtained a Long Term Care Facility Administrator’s license. He served in this field for over fourteen years until retiring in 2009 to live the dream of traveling with Tiny in their motor home across the United States. They somehow managed to often include visits to Dripping Springs, Texas, to check on the grandkids he loved so much. Dripping Springs became their home base.

During the fifty plus years Gene lived in Clarendon, he served the community in many capacities. He was a past president of the Clarendon Lions Club and Clarendon Country Club. He served as a Director of the Chamber of Commerce and a member of the Clarendon CISD School Board. All of the Alderson family were faithful members of First Baptist Church where Gene served as Deacon Chairman, Sunday School Superintendent and Sunday School Teacher. When the existing church building was built in 1972, Gene served as Chairman of the Building Finance Committee. At his death, he was a member of First Baptist Church, Clarendon, Texas.

When his career as a nursing home administrator took him to Brownsville, Texas, in 2002, Gene became involved in Gideon’s International and as president of the Brownsville Camp, led a Bible Blitz distributing Bibles to the Cameron County Area. During the seven and a half years they lived in Brownsville, he and Tiny were active in First Baptist Church where Gene served as a Deacon, Sunday School Teacher and on the Finance Committee. He was also active in the Brownsville Downtown Lions Club.

Gene is survived by his wife, Tiny; his daughter and son-in-law, Karen and Mike Spees of Lubbock, Texas, his son and daughter-in-law, Lynn and Amy Alderson of Dripping Springs, Texas, and the three joys of his later years, his grandchildren, Caitlyn, Drake and Amanda Alderson.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests memorials to Gideon’s International or Clarendon Citizens Cemetery Association.

Henry Wendell Talley passed away Monday, April 30, in Topeka, Kan. A memorial service is planned at a later date.

Talley was born June 2, 1941, in Hedley, to Wanna Mae Carothers Talley and Emery W. Talley.

Talley was always interested in our country and all the elected officials of his choice. He stayed in contact with them and supported them. He served his country in the United States Air Force and was stationed in Thailand in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and he was a jet mechanic and served on bombing missions over North Vietnam.

He enjoyed reading his Bible and was quite knowledgeable about the scriptures. He was a member of the Church of Christ. Tally had many friends in Clarendon who were helpful and supportive of him in years past. For this the family is extremely grateful.

Survivors include two sisters, Maxine Robinson of Clarendon and Judy Hays of Bingam, New Mexico; three nieces, Mona Oney of Cleburne, Lori Robinson of Clarendon, and Christina Childress of Lubbock; one nephew, Clint Robinson of Lubbock; and several great nieces and nephews.

Jeanne Marie Morrow, housewife, mother, and longtime Clarendon resident, died on April 29 at the nursing home in Clarendon. She was 79.

The cause was respiratory distress and heart failure, said her son John Earl.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 5, in First Baptist Church in Clarendon with the Rev. Darrell Burton, officiating. Burial will be in Citizens Cemetery by Robertson Funeral Directors.

Mrs. Morrow was born April 30, 1932, in Donley County at home to Herman L. and Peggy A. Percival. She was the salutatorian of her graduating class of 1949 at Clarendon, and was awarded a scholarship to a college in Belton, Texas, that she never left Clarendon to attend. Mrs. Morrow, who at one time was a vocational nurse at Northwest Texas Hospital in Amarillo, devoted her life to her husband, Ira Kenneth Morrow, and her three sons Daniel Lee, Joe Wayne, and John Earl.

She accepted the Lord as her Savior and friend as a teenager, and was her happiest when reading stories from the Bible. She named her sons good Biblical names that she loved. She loved the First Baptist Church of Clarendon.

Later, she always looked forward to the worship services held in the nursing home. When asked her feelings about people three weeks before her death, she said she “loved everybody” and she truly did.

In addition to her son John Earl Morrow of Clarendon, her survivors include her sons Daniel Lee of Plano and Dr. Joe Wayne Morrow. She is survived also by her brother Billy Joe Percival of Grand Prairie; fourteen grandchildren; and seventeen great-grandchildren.

A son, Samuel David Morrow, died after four hours of life in Groom in 1950. Her husband Ira Kenneth Morrow died in Clarendon in 2007. Her father Herman Percival died in Amarillo in 1972, and her mother Peggy Percival died in Grand Prairie in 2002. Her brother Ralph Percival died in Houston in 2006. Also, she had two brothers Paul and Herman Jr. and a sister Margery Sue who each died young at about the age of one.

John Manly Bryan, MD, age 83, formerly of Canyon and current resident of Dallas, passed away April 27, 2012.

Bryan was born at home February 7, 1929, in Clarendon. He was the son of Allen Jefferson Bryan and Virginia Margaret Manly (Dirky), and had one younger brother, Harry Eugene Bryan, who preceded him in death, May 1988.

He graduated from Clarendon High School in 1946. From 1946 to 1949 he attended and graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder, where he met and later married Joanne Lotz on December 27, 1950, in Metropolis, Illinois.

He went on to Medical School at the University of Texas, Medical Branch, in Galveston, graduating in 1953. After an internship in Denver and a residency with the Public Health Service, Silver Springs, Maryland, in 1957 he and Jo returned to Canyon where he joined a physician group practice, practicing family medicine for 31 years.

He was one of the early physicians to become Board Certified by the American Academy of Family Physicians. While in Canyon, he was elected to numerous civic positions, and served as Mayor of Canyon for eight years beginning in 1970.

In 1988, he and Jo relocated to the Dallas area where he continued working in various medical positions until November 2011.

He is survived by his loving wife of 61 years, Jo; his sons Jay Bryan and wife Susan of Pentwater, Michigan, and Denny Bryan and wife Leanne of Graham; his six grandchildren, Bradley and Ashley Bryan, Abbott and Colby Oates, Aaron and Joanna Richison; four great-grandchildren, Jacob and Jocelyn Richison, Calvin Robrahn, and Hunter; his sister-in-law, Betty Moore and husband Billy; a nephew, Craig Bryan and wife Vicki; and a niece, Lynn Rosa and husband Duane of Amarillo.

Manly and Jo loved to travel and cook and traveled extensively with an eye for unique culinary ports-of-call. They counted themselves fortunate to have formed lifelong friendships with wonderful people wherever they lived or traveled.

Memorial services for Manly Bryan will be Friday, May 4, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. North Dallas Funeral Home, 2710 Valley View Lane, Dallas, Texas 75234. www.northdallasfuneralhome.com

For those wishing to remember Manly as a physician and a friend, donations may be made in his name to your favorite charity or to the American Heart or Lung or Cancer Association, and as flowers beautify the world and cheer the heart, they are also warmly appreciated.

Jimmy Lee Hutson, 64, of Clarendon died on Tuesday, April 24, 2012 in Clarendon.

Services were held at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, April 26, 2012, at Citizens Cemetery with Patrick Robertson, officiating. Services were under the direction of Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Jimmy was born April 23, 1948 in Clarendon to Freddie L. and Ollie Ruth Fowler Hutson. He has been a resident of Clarendon all of his life. He spent most of his working life, 21 years, at Price Truck Stop in Clarendon as the night shift manager. He loved to hunt and fish, as well as spending time with his family. Jimmy was Baptist.

He was preceded in death by his father, Freddie L. Huston, on May 19, 1992.

He is survived by his mother, Ollie Ruth Hutson, of Clarendon; brother, Kenneth “Shorty” Hutson and wife Lois, of Hereford; sister, Patsy Havens, of Clarendon; and many nieces, nephews, and extended family. In lieu of flowers or other gifts, the family suggests donations to Odyssey Hospice, 6900 I40 West, Ste 150, Amarillo, Texas 79106.