Clara Jo Richardson, formerly of Logan, New Mexico, recently of Fairfield and Napa California, died April 19, 2017, at the age of 86.
Jo was born March 21, 1931, in Okmulgee, Oklahoma to Robert Lee and Carrie Winfrey. She married her lifelong sweetheart, G. E. (Gene) Richardson, August 28, 1949. She served the Methodist church as a "pastor's wife" for over forty years and was active in United Methodist Women, Sunday school (often teaching) and vacation church school in the many communities where they lived. In addition to being a homemaker, she built a home business, making and decorating cakes and other confections for the community.
She attended Odessa College and earned first an LPN and then an RN degree in the late 70's. She worked in hospitals in Odessa, Texas, and Portales and Los Alamos, New Mexico in labor and delivery and as charge nurse. She won awards for child birth education classes, as well as being named Nurse of the Year at Roosevelt General Hospital. After "retiring" she was instrumental in the formation of Helping Hands Hospice in Tucumcari, was certified as a medical examiner and served as a hospice nurse until 2005.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Lee and Carrie Winfrey; her husband, Gene Richardson; her sister, Leona Winfrey Muehlhausen; and one daughter and son-in-law, Ruby Lynn and Ellis Hanawalt.
She is survived by three daughters, Clara Richardson of Abilene, Texas, Lee Ann Davis and husband Gerry of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Elizabeth Groves and husband Glen of Fairfield California; three grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 10 am on June 3, 2017, at Logan United Methodist Church, with a family interment at the Logan Cemetery to follow.
Gifts to Helping Hands Hospice in Tucumcari, NM or the American Diabetes Association can be made in lieu of flowers.
Published in the Eastern New Mexico News from May 27 to May 31, 2017
Jo was born March 21, 1931, in Okmulgee, Oklahoma to Robert Lee and Carrie Winfrey. She married her lifelong sweetheart, G. E. (Gene) Richardson, August 28, 1949. She served the Methodist church as a "pastor's wife" for over forty years and was active in United Methodist Women, Sunday school (often teaching) and vacation church school in the many communities where they lived. In addition to being a homemaker, she built a home business, making and decorating cakes and other confections for the community.
She attended Odessa College and earned first an LPN and then an RN degree in the late 70's. She worked in hospitals in Odessa, Texas, and Portales and Los Alamos, New Mexico in labor and delivery and as charge nurse. She won awards for child birth education classes, as well as being named Nurse of the Year at Roosevelt General Hospital. After "retiring" she was instrumental in the formation of Helping Hands Hospice in Tucumcari, was certified as a medical examiner and served as a hospice nurse until 2005.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Lee and Carrie Winfrey; her husband, Gene Richardson; her sister, Leona Winfrey Muehlhausen; and one daughter and son-in-law, Ruby Lynn and Ellis Hanawalt.
She is survived by three daughters, Clara Richardson of Abilene, Texas, Lee Ann Davis and husband Gerry of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Elizabeth Groves and husband Glen of Fairfield California; three grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 10 am on June 3, 2017, at Logan United Methodist Church, with a family interment at the Logan Cemetery to follow.
Gifts to Helping Hands Hospice in Tucumcari, NM or the American Diabetes Association can be made in lieu of flowers.
Published in the Eastern New Mexico News from May 27 to May 31, 2017
Clara Jo Richardson, formerly of Logan, New Mexico, recently of Fairfield and Napa California, died April 19, 2017, at the age of 86.
Jo was born March 21, 1931, in Okmulgee, Oklahoma to Robert Lee and Carrie Winfrey. She married her lifelong sweetheart, G. E. (Gene) Richardson, August 28, 1949. She served the Methodist church as a "pastor's wife" for over forty years and was active in United Methodist Women, Sunday school (often teaching) and vacation church school in the many communities where they lived. In addition to being a homemaker, she built a home business, making and decorating cakes and other confections for the community.
She attended Odessa College and earned first an LPN and then an RN degree in the late 70's. She worked in hospitals in Odessa, Texas, and Portales and Los Alamos, New Mexico in labor and delivery and as charge nurse. She won awards for child birth education classes, as well as being named Nurse of the Year at Roosevelt General Hospital. After "retiring" she was instrumental in the formation of Helping Hands Hospice in Tucumcari, was certified as a medical examiner and served as a hospice nurse until 2005.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Lee and Carrie Winfrey; her husband, Gene Richardson; her sister, Leona Winfrey Muehlhausen; and one daughter and son-in-law, Ruby Lynn and Ellis Hanawalt.
She is survived by three daughters, Clara Richardson of Abilene, Texas, Lee Ann Davis and husband Gerry of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Elizabeth Groves and husband Glen of Fairfield California; three grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 10 am on June 3, 2017, at Logan United Methodist Church, with a family interment at the Logan Cemetery to follow.
Gifts to Helping Hands Hospice in Tucumcari, NM or the American Diabetes Association can be made in lieu of flowers.
Published in the Eastern New Mexico News from May 27 to May 31, 2017
Jo was born March 21, 1931, in Okmulgee, Oklahoma to Robert Lee and Carrie Winfrey. She married her lifelong sweetheart, G. E. (Gene) Richardson, August 28, 1949. She served the Methodist church as a "pastor's wife" for over forty years and was active in United Methodist Women, Sunday school (often teaching) and vacation church school in the many communities where they lived. In addition to being a homemaker, she built a home business, making and decorating cakes and other confections for the community.
She attended Odessa College and earned first an LPN and then an RN degree in the late 70's. She worked in hospitals in Odessa, Texas, and Portales and Los Alamos, New Mexico in labor and delivery and as charge nurse. She won awards for child birth education classes, as well as being named Nurse of the Year at Roosevelt General Hospital. After "retiring" she was instrumental in the formation of Helping Hands Hospice in Tucumcari, was certified as a medical examiner and served as a hospice nurse until 2005.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Lee and Carrie Winfrey; her husband, Gene Richardson; her sister, Leona Winfrey Muehlhausen; and one daughter and son-in-law, Ruby Lynn and Ellis Hanawalt.
She is survived by three daughters, Clara Richardson of Abilene, Texas, Lee Ann Davis and husband Gerry of Santa Fe, New Mexico, and Elizabeth Groves and husband Glen of Fairfield California; three grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
A memorial service will be held at 10 am on June 3, 2017, at Logan United Methodist Church, with a family interment at the Logan Cemetery to follow.
Gifts to Helping Hands Hospice in Tucumcari, NM or the American Diabetes Association can be made in lieu of flowers.
Published in the Eastern New Mexico News from May 27 to May 31, 2017
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