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Rose Alice <I>Starkey</I> Powell Stinson

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Rose Alice Starkey Powell Stinson

Birth
Collingsworth County, Texas, USA
Death
15 Feb 2004 (aged 91)
Texas, USA
Burial
Amarillo, Randall County, Texas, USA
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AUSTIN - Rose Alice Starkey Powell Stinson, 91, died Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Brooks Funeral Directors Chapel. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Mrs. Stinson, a high school speech and drama teacher and little theater play director for most of her adult life, made her final curtain call on Sunday, seven days after her 91st birthday.

Rose was the last of nine children born to Thomas Benjamin and Alice Texas Starkey. Rose was born on Feb. 7, 1913, in Plymouth. Shortly thereafter, the Starkeys moved to Wellington where she was raised and attended school. After serving as football queen and finishing Wellington High, and after finishing school with the Wellington High School Class of 1930 she married one of the football captains, Raymond L. Powell, and was off to West Texas State Teachers College to major in speeh and drama.

Rose knew early in life that her calling was teaching. Upon getting her teaching certification during the depression years, she taught private lessons and in the public schools for the next three-plus decades at Waka, Prairie View, Samnorwood, Dodson, Union, Hart, Perryton, Amarillo and Liberal, Kan.

She was preceded in death by her two husbands, Raymond L. Powell and Leroy D. Stinson.

Survivors include two children, Ret. Col. Raymond R. Powell and wife, Beverly, of Fairfax, Va., and Barbara Rose Laughlin and husband, Bob, of Austin; seven grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.

Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 18, 2004
AUSTIN - Rose Alice Starkey Powell Stinson, 91, died Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Brooks Funeral Directors Chapel. Burial will be in Memory Gardens Cemetery.

Mrs. Stinson, a high school speech and drama teacher and little theater play director for most of her adult life, made her final curtain call on Sunday, seven days after her 91st birthday.

Rose was the last of nine children born to Thomas Benjamin and Alice Texas Starkey. Rose was born on Feb. 7, 1913, in Plymouth. Shortly thereafter, the Starkeys moved to Wellington where she was raised and attended school. After serving as football queen and finishing Wellington High, and after finishing school with the Wellington High School Class of 1930 she married one of the football captains, Raymond L. Powell, and was off to West Texas State Teachers College to major in speeh and drama.

Rose knew early in life that her calling was teaching. Upon getting her teaching certification during the depression years, she taught private lessons and in the public schools for the next three-plus decades at Waka, Prairie View, Samnorwood, Dodson, Union, Hart, Perryton, Amarillo and Liberal, Kan.

She was preceded in death by her two husbands, Raymond L. Powell and Leroy D. Stinson.

Survivors include two children, Ret. Col. Raymond R. Powell and wife, Beverly, of Fairfax, Va., and Barbara Rose Laughlin and husband, Bob, of Austin; seven grandchildren; and 19 great-grandchildren.

Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 18, 2004

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