To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Texas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Texas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 2/12/22 • Approved: 2/14/22 • Last Updated: 2/17/22 • R489841-G0-S3
US Navy
World War II
July 19, 1925-September 16, 2004
*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary
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
Contributed on 2/12/22 by neldapat
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 489841