Charles "Dip", born 1907, son of Nat Fox and Gussie Ellis Fox farmed at Estacado for many years. He and his wife, the former Jennie Michael, daughter of Charles R. Michael and Sarah Belle Soules Michael, lived in Lorenzo in their latter years. Their daughter, Mickey Hargrove, has two children.Dip loved to play golf and devoted many hours to maintaining the Estacado Cemetery.
LORENZO (Special)- Services for Jennie Lynn Michael Fox, 86, of Lorenzo will be at 2 p.m. today in First United Methodist Church with the Revs. Don Boren, pastor, and Sid Parsley, pastor of Haskell First United Methodist Church, officiating.Burial in Estacado Cemetery will be directed by Carter-Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
Mrs. Fox died Thursday, Jan. 20, 1994, in Ralls Nursing Home.
She was born on Jan. 1, 1908, in Estacado and was a longtime resident of Lorenzo area. She married Charlie "Dip" Fox on Jan. 2, 1930, in Clovis, N.M. She was a homemaker and a member of First United Methodist Church.
She is survived by her husband; a daughter, Mickie Hargrove of Lorenzo; two sisters, Ruth Young and Jack Michael, both of Lorenzo; two grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Wilburne Gray, Herbert Boyd, Willie Williams, Dena Andrews, Jim Norris and Herschel Bird.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, January 1, 1994
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
Graveside services for Charles Leslie "Dip" Fox, 96, of Lorenzo were held at 10 a.m. Friday, Feb. 6, 2004, at the Estacado Cemetery. A memorial service will follow at 11 a.m. at the United Methodist Church in Lorenzo with the Rev. Don Boren and the Rev. Jerry Williams officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Adams Funeral Home of Lorenzo.
He died Tuesday, Feb. 3, 2004, at the Crosbyton Hospital.
He was born May 25, 1907 in Estacado, Texas to Nat and Gussie Iona Ellis Fox. He married Jennie Lynn Michael on Jan. 2, 1930 in Clovis, N.M. She died Jan. 20, 1994.
He was a graduate of Estacado schools. He was a farmer and a member of the Lorenzo United Methodist Church. He served on the Estacado and Lorenzo School Boards of Trustees for 21 years and never missed a regular meeting. He also served as caretaker of the Estacado Cemetery for many years.
He is preceded in death by four brothers, Clarence, Leonard, Sam and J.D.; and three sisters, Dollie Elizabeth Bowron, Gladys McDonald, and Jennie Ione Merchant.
Survivors include a daughter, Mickie Hargrove of Lorenzo; a brother, H.L. "Doc" Fox of Ransom Canyon; two grandchildren, Mike Hargrove and his wife, Kathy, of Lubbock, and Gay Rainey and her husband, Robert, of McKinney; four great grandchildren, Brendan and Steven Hargrove, and Katie and Leslie Quisenberry.
Pallbearers will be Steve Fox, Jim Fox, Troy Fox, Les Bowron, Bobby Clark and Brendan Hargrove.
The family will received friends from 5 to 6 p.m. Thursday at Adams Funeral Home in Lorenzo.
The family suggests memorials to the Estacado Cemetery Association c/o Peoples Bank, P.O. Box 490, Lorenzo, Texas 79343.
©The Crosbyton Review, Friday, Feb. 13, 2004, page 8
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