LORENZO (Special) Services for Mildred E. Beshirs, 53, of Lorenzo will be at 4 p.m. today at the First Baptist Church in Lorenzo with Rev. Jerry Golden, pastor; Rev. Jerry Klaverweiden, pastor of the First United Methodist Church in Lorenzo; and Rev. Sid Parsley, pastor of the Crowell First United Methodist Church in Crowell, officiating.Burial will be in Lorenzo Cemetery under the direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
She died at 9 a.m. Friday at Methodist Hospital in Lubbock after a lengthy illness.
Born May 31, 1930 in Mead, Okla., she married O.C. Beshirs Nov. 24, 1949 in Durant, Okla. She moved to Lorenzo in 1953.
Survivors include her husband; three sons, Clabourne of Ralls, Gerald and Ray, both of Lorenzo; four daughters, Deborah Norris, Reba Norris and Yvonne Kelso, all of Ralls, and Janet Johnson of Dickens; two brothers, Albert Roberts of Salinas, Calif., and Robert Roberts of Bigsbee, Okla.; six sisters, Maudie Barcheers of Lorenzo, Flossy Waterson of Randolph, Edith Goggans of Durant, Okla., Jessie Grigg of Bonham, Ethelda Lankford, of Apache, Okla., and Ann Miller of Sherman; her mother, Florence Roberts of Sherman; and 15 grandchildren.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, May 5, 1984
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
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