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Clifford Layal Arnold

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Clifford Layal Arnold

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16 Sep 2004 (aged 79)
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Hereford, Deaf Smith County, Texas, USA Add to Map
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HEREFORD - Clifford L. Arnold, 79, died Thursday, September 16, 2004.
Services will be at 1 p.m. today in Parkside Chapel Funeral Home with the Rev. Terry Cosby officiating. Burial will be in West Park Cemetery.

Mr. Arnold was born July 19, 1925, in Donley County, the son of Porter L. and Hassie (Clay) Arnold. Cliff was a veteran, having served in the Navy during World War II as a radioman, on the staff of Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barby, commander of the 7th amphibious forces in the South Pacific. After being honorably discharged in 1946, he attended Wayland Baptist College in Plainview and West Texas State College in Canyon. He moved to Hereford in 1949 and worked in retail sales.

Mr. Arnold married Guiletta Uvonne Gunstenson on Dec. 2, 1952, in Hereford. He retired from tax assessing and collecting for the school, city and county appraisal district which he had done since 1966. Cliff was a member of First Baptist Church and some of his special interests were working on genealogy, playing golf and hunting Indian relics and arrowheads.

Survivors include his wife; two sisters, Lois Walker of Silverton and Voneta Marcus of Lafayette, Ind.

The family suggests memorials be to Panhandle Chapter Alzheimer's Association, 2200 W. Seventh Ave., Amarillo, TX 79106; Odyssey Hospice, 1000 S. Jefferson St., Amarillo, TX 79101; or First Baptist Church of Hereford, 500 N. Main St., Hereford, TX 79045.

Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 18, 2004
HEREFORD - Clifford L. Arnold, 79, died Thursday, September 16, 2004.
Services will be at 1 p.m. today in Parkside Chapel Funeral Home with the Rev. Terry Cosby officiating. Burial will be in West Park Cemetery.

Mr. Arnold was born July 19, 1925, in Donley County, the son of Porter L. and Hassie (Clay) Arnold. Cliff was a veteran, having served in the Navy during World War II as a radioman, on the staff of Vice Admiral Daniel E. Barby, commander of the 7th amphibious forces in the South Pacific. After being honorably discharged in 1946, he attended Wayland Baptist College in Plainview and West Texas State College in Canyon. He moved to Hereford in 1949 and worked in retail sales.

Mr. Arnold married Guiletta Uvonne Gunstenson on Dec. 2, 1952, in Hereford. He retired from tax assessing and collecting for the school, city and county appraisal district which he had done since 1966. Cliff was a member of First Baptist Church and some of his special interests were working on genealogy, playing golf and hunting Indian relics and arrowheads.

Survivors include his wife; two sisters, Lois Walker of Silverton and Voneta Marcus of Lafayette, Ind.

The family suggests memorials be to Panhandle Chapter Alzheimer's Association, 2200 W. Seventh Ave., Amarillo, TX 79106; Odyssey Hospice, 1000 S. Jefferson St., Amarillo, TX 79101; or First Baptist Church of Hereford, 500 N. Main St., Hereford, TX 79045.

Amarillo Globe-News, Sept. 18, 2004


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