SUTHER, MARY VIRGINIA - Crosby County, Texas | MARY VIRGINIA SUTHER - Texas Gravestone Photos

Mary Virginia SUTHER

Crosbyton Cemetery
Crosby County,
Texas

Arthur Lee
September 5, 1923-February 28, 1997

*Obituary
CROSBYTON (Special) — Services for Lee Suther, 73, of Crosbyton will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at Crosbyton First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Johnnie Williams, a retired Methodist minister of Lubbock, and the Rev. Wendell Horn, pastor of Olton First United Methodist Church, officiating.
Burial will be in Crosbyton Cemetery under direction of Adams Funeral Home.

Suther died Friday, Feb. 28, 1997, at Lubbock´s Methodist Hospital.

He was born Sept. 5, 1923, in Albany. He married Mary Watson on Jan. 15, 1944, in Lubbock. He was a member of Crosbyton First United Methodist Church, where he taught the Opportunity Sunday School Class and served as past chairman of the board of stewards. He was a 32nd Degree Mason and a member of the Crosbyton Masonic Lodge. He helped organize the Crosby County Livestock Show, and he was a member of Crosbyton Lions Club. He served as a Lion boss in 1966 and 1967. He served as a Crosby County commissioner from 1966 to 1970. He was a U.S. Army Air Corps veteran of World War II, and he moved to Crosbyton from Lubbock in 1956. He graduated from Texas Tech.

He was a farmer and entomologist, and he moved to Crosbyton as Crosby County agent, serving eight years. He also worked with DeKalb and Frontier Seed Company as a salesman.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Brent of Iowa City, Iowa; two daughters, Sharon Brumelle of Odessa and Brenda Barrett of Seminole; a brother, Milton Roy of Vancouver, Wash.; and three grandchildren.

©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, March 1, 1997

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Mary Virginia
October 21, 1925-May 15, 2017

*Obituary
Funeral services for Mary Virginia Suther, 91 of Seminole, formerly of Crosbyton, will be held on Wednesday, May 17, 2017 at 2:00 pm in the First United Methodist Church of Crosbyton with the Rev. Charlie Johnson officiating, assisted by Rev. Gary Eggart and Bob Adams. Interment will follow in the Crosbyton Cemetery with the services under the direction of Ratliff Funeral Home of Seminole. Mary passed away on Monday, May 15 in Seminole.

Mary Suther was born on October 21, 1925 to Leonard Watson and Ada Estelle Crumbley Watson in Round Mountain, Alabama. She attended Jr. College and married Arthur Lee Suther on January 15, 1944 in Lubbock and the couple moved to Crosbyton in 1956. Mary was the secretary for the First United Methodist Church in Crosbyton for over 20 years. She was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Crosbyton, the Crosbyton Needle Club, Bridge Club, and the First United Methodist Women. Mary also served on the Board of Directors for the Crosbyton Senior Citizens. She moved to Seminole in 2014 to be near her daughter.

Mary was preceded in death by her husband, Lee Suther on February 28, 1997; also by one brother, Leonard Watson and a sister, Nina Fay Podlesney.

Survivors include two daughters, Sharon Brumelle & husband Kenneth of Odessa and Brenda Barrett & husband Robert of Seminole; one son, Brent Suther & his partner Scott McLean of Minneapolis, MN; one sister, Dorothy McCarty of Lubbock; one grandson, Lance Barrett of Lubbock; two granddaughters, Laine Friesen of Seminole & Jenni VU of Tulsa, OK; and six great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers memorials may be made to the Crosbyton Senior Citizens, the First United Methodist Church, the Crosbyton Cemetery Association or to the charity of your choice.

Source: Seminole Sentinel.

Photo courtesy of Kay Marshall

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