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Arla Edward Hallford

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Arla Edward Hallford

Birth
Newburg, Comanche County, Texas, USA
Death
31 Mar 2000 (aged 100)
Mangum, Greer County, Oklahoma, USA
Burial
Amarillo, Randall County, Texas, USA GPS-Latitude: 35.063385, Longitude: -101.920723
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Oklahoma
Arla E. Hallford
MANGUM, Okla. - Arla E. Hallford, 100, died Friday, March 31, 2000.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in First Baptist Church in Eldorado with his grandson, the Rev. Ronny J. White, officiating. Dr. Dean Goodfellow will assist. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery at Amarillo.

Mr. Hallford was born in Newburg Community and attended Howard Payne College and Baylor University. Until 1940, he was a teacher in Newburg and superintendent of schools in Grosvenor, Texas. He then worked for the Texas Department of Public Welfare in Quanah, Amarillo, and Eastland until his retirement in 1963.

He was a longtime member of First Baptist Church in Eastland and had been living in Grace Living Center at Mangum since 1993.

He married Willie Couch in 1922 at Blanket, Texas.

His wife preceded him in death.

Survivors include four daughters, Dorothy Jackson of Amarillo, Billie Hays of Fort Smith, Ark., Pat Williams of Aubrey, Texas, and Lou Helen White of Eldorado; 11 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

Amarillo Sunday News-Globe April 2, 2000

Oklahoma
Arla E. Hallford
MANGUM, Okla. - Arla E. Hallford, 100, died Friday, March 31, 2000.

Services will be at 10:30 a.m. Monday in First Baptist Church in Eldorado with his grandson, the Rev. Ronny J. White, officiating. Dr. Dean Goodfellow will assist. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery at Amarillo.

Mr. Hallford was born in Newburg Community and attended Howard Payne College and Baylor University. Until 1940, he was a teacher in Newburg and superintendent of schools in Grosvenor, Texas. He then worked for the Texas Department of Public Welfare in Quanah, Amarillo, and Eastland until his retirement in 1963.

He was a longtime member of First Baptist Church in Eastland and had been living in Grace Living Center at Mangum since 1993.

He married Willie Couch in 1922 at Blanket, Texas.

His wife preceded him in death.

Survivors include four daughters, Dorothy Jackson of Amarillo, Billie Hays of Fort Smith, Ark., Pat Williams of Aubrey, Texas, and Lou Helen White of Eldorado; 11 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren.

Amarillo Sunday News-Globe April 2, 2000



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