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Submitted: 3/3/20 • Approved: 3/3/20 • Last Updated: 3/6/20 • R276768-G276768-S3
Marcel J. “Jack”
May 7, 1920- August 24, 1991
Please see military marker
Velda Lou
June 15, 1923-July 20, 2001
Married October 3, 1942
*Obituary for Velda Lou
DENVER CITY — Services for Velda Lou Dorethy, 78, of Denver City will be at 10 a.m. Monday at First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Darren Skinner officiating.
Burial will be in Denver City Memorial Park under the direction of Ratliff Funeral Home of Denver City. She died Friday, July 20, 2001.
She was born June 15, 1923, in Godley and married Jack Dorethy on Oct. 3, 1942, in O'Donnell. He died Aug. 24, 1991. She was an office assistant for Kizer Insurance Company for many years and a member of the Xi Iota Delta Chapter of the Beta Sigma Phi sorority for 45 years. She was a member of First United Methodist Church.
Survivors include a son, Gene Marcell of Denver City; three daughters, DeAnna Gail Rasco of Muleshoe and Kathie Lea Littlefield and Candy Tate, both of Denver City; two sisters, Maxine McGregor of Grapevine and Jean Mayes of Lubbock; eight grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials to the Eleanor Tips Scholarship Fund or the Building Fund of the First United Methodist Church. Ratliff Funeral Home.
Contributed on 3/3/20 by neldapat
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