DUMAS - Rosa Lee Dunn, 91, died Saturday, Oct. 15, 2005.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. today in Northlawn Memorial Gardens with Don Bethel officiating. Arrangements are by Morrison Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Dunn was born Feb. 13, 1914, in Anderson County, S.C., to Truman and Della Bowling. She moved with her family to Union County, N.M., when she was a young girl. After graduating from Clayton High School, she worked for WPA and other jobs. She married Lloyd Dunn on Aug. 28, 1938, in Union County. They moved to Dumas in 1941, where he worked in the war effort building refineries.
She was a member of First Baptist Church and spent many years working with children and in WMU. She was the first director of the kindergarten at the Baptist Spanish Mission and the first director of the satellite school in Dumas until her retirement. She moved to Grand Prairie to live with her daughter, Janet Ammons, after she developed Alzheimer's Disease in the early '90s. She then moved to Wellington Care Center in 2000 when Janet and her husband, James, retired and moved to Wellington.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; three brothers, Robert, Cecil and P.D.; a sister, Betty Jene; a granddaughter, Rochelle Ammons; a niece, Delinda Bowling Manning; and three brothers-in-law, A.L. Turnley, Charles Bird and Jim Welch.
Survivors include two daughters, Marian Johnson and Janet Ammons and husband, James, all of Welllington; four sisters, Sarah Bethel and husband, Don, of Marion, Ill., Edna Welch of Fresno, Calif., Elizabeth Turnley of Waco and Della May Bird of Marlin; two granddaughters, Rose Ann Ammons of Austin and Jolene Caraway and husband, Chris, of Hurst; a great-granddaughter, Kayla Caraway of Hurst; and numerous nieces and nephews, including Linda Daves and husband, Dale, of Dumas.
The family suggests memorials be to BSA Hospice, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79105 or Alzheimer's Foundation, 2200 W. Seventh Ave., Amarillo, TX 79106.
Amarillo Globe-News, Oct. 19, 2005
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. today in Northlawn Memorial Gardens with Don Bethel officiating. Arrangements are by Morrison Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Dunn was born Feb. 13, 1914, in Anderson County, S.C., to Truman and Della Bowling. She moved with her family to Union County, N.M., when she was a young girl. After graduating from Clayton High School, she worked for WPA and other jobs. She married Lloyd Dunn on Aug. 28, 1938, in Union County. They moved to Dumas in 1941, where he worked in the war effort building refineries.
She was a member of First Baptist Church and spent many years working with children and in WMU. She was the first director of the kindergarten at the Baptist Spanish Mission and the first director of the satellite school in Dumas until her retirement. She moved to Grand Prairie to live with her daughter, Janet Ammons, after she developed Alzheimer's Disease in the early '90s. She then moved to Wellington Care Center in 2000 when Janet and her husband, James, retired and moved to Wellington.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; three brothers, Robert, Cecil and P.D.; a sister, Betty Jene; a granddaughter, Rochelle Ammons; a niece, Delinda Bowling Manning; and three brothers-in-law, A.L. Turnley, Charles Bird and Jim Welch.
Survivors include two daughters, Marian Johnson and Janet Ammons and husband, James, all of Welllington; four sisters, Sarah Bethel and husband, Don, of Marion, Ill., Edna Welch of Fresno, Calif., Elizabeth Turnley of Waco and Della May Bird of Marlin; two granddaughters, Rose Ann Ammons of Austin and Jolene Caraway and husband, Chris, of Hurst; a great-granddaughter, Kayla Caraway of Hurst; and numerous nieces and nephews, including Linda Daves and husband, Dale, of Dumas.
The family suggests memorials be to BSA Hospice, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79105 or Alzheimer's Foundation, 2200 W. Seventh Ave., Amarillo, TX 79106.
Amarillo Globe-News, Oct. 19, 2005
DUMAS - Rosa Lee Dunn, 91, died Saturday, Oct. 15, 2005.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. today in Northlawn Memorial Gardens with Don Bethel officiating. Arrangements are by Morrison Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Dunn was born Feb. 13, 1914, in Anderson County, S.C., to Truman and Della Bowling. She moved with her family to Union County, N.M., when she was a young girl. After graduating from Clayton High School, she worked for WPA and other jobs. She married Lloyd Dunn on Aug. 28, 1938, in Union County. They moved to Dumas in 1941, where he worked in the war effort building refineries.
She was a member of First Baptist Church and spent many years working with children and in WMU. She was the first director of the kindergarten at the Baptist Spanish Mission and the first director of the satellite school in Dumas until her retirement. She moved to Grand Prairie to live with her daughter, Janet Ammons, after she developed Alzheimer's Disease in the early '90s. She then moved to Wellington Care Center in 2000 when Janet and her husband, James, retired and moved to Wellington.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; three brothers, Robert, Cecil and P.D.; a sister, Betty Jene; a granddaughter, Rochelle Ammons; a niece, Delinda Bowling Manning; and three brothers-in-law, A.L. Turnley, Charles Bird and Jim Welch.
Survivors include two daughters, Marian Johnson and Janet Ammons and husband, James, all of Welllington; four sisters, Sarah Bethel and husband, Don, of Marion, Ill., Edna Welch of Fresno, Calif., Elizabeth Turnley of Waco and Della May Bird of Marlin; two granddaughters, Rose Ann Ammons of Austin and Jolene Caraway and husband, Chris, of Hurst; a great-granddaughter, Kayla Caraway of Hurst; and numerous nieces and nephews, including Linda Daves and husband, Dale, of Dumas.
The family suggests memorials be to BSA Hospice, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79105 or Alzheimer's Foundation, 2200 W. Seventh Ave., Amarillo, TX 79106.
Amarillo Globe-News, Oct. 19, 2005
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. today in Northlawn Memorial Gardens with Don Bethel officiating. Arrangements are by Morrison Funeral Directors.
Mrs. Dunn was born Feb. 13, 1914, in Anderson County, S.C., to Truman and Della Bowling. She moved with her family to Union County, N.M., when she was a young girl. After graduating from Clayton High School, she worked for WPA and other jobs. She married Lloyd Dunn on Aug. 28, 1938, in Union County. They moved to Dumas in 1941, where he worked in the war effort building refineries.
She was a member of First Baptist Church and spent many years working with children and in WMU. She was the first director of the kindergarten at the Baptist Spanish Mission and the first director of the satellite school in Dumas until her retirement. She moved to Grand Prairie to live with her daughter, Janet Ammons, after she developed Alzheimer's Disease in the early '90s. She then moved to Wellington Care Center in 2000 when Janet and her husband, James, retired and moved to Wellington.
She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; three brothers, Robert, Cecil and P.D.; a sister, Betty Jene; a granddaughter, Rochelle Ammons; a niece, Delinda Bowling Manning; and three brothers-in-law, A.L. Turnley, Charles Bird and Jim Welch.
Survivors include two daughters, Marian Johnson and Janet Ammons and husband, James, all of Welllington; four sisters, Sarah Bethel and husband, Don, of Marion, Ill., Edna Welch of Fresno, Calif., Elizabeth Turnley of Waco and Della May Bird of Marlin; two granddaughters, Rose Ann Ammons of Austin and Jolene Caraway and husband, Chris, of Hurst; a great-granddaughter, Kayla Caraway of Hurst; and numerous nieces and nephews, including Linda Daves and husband, Dale, of Dumas.
The family suggests memorials be to BSA Hospice, P.O. Box 950, Amarillo, TX 79105 or Alzheimer's Foundation, 2200 W. Seventh Ave., Amarillo, TX 79106.
Amarillo Globe-News, Oct. 19, 2005
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