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N. Fern JORDAN DEFRIES

Westlawn Memorial Park (Westlawn) Cemetery
Hutchinson County,
Texas

L. Leon
1931-1997

Please see military marker
Father of Gary, Greg, & Edye

N. Fern
1931-2017

Mother of Carla, Larry, & Jerry Defries

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Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley

Obituary for Leon
Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Lilbern Leon Howell
Date of Birth: 7 Nov 1931
Gender: Male
Birth County: Wheeler
Father's Name: Lilbern Nathan Howell
Mother's Name: Beulah Edith Reeves
Roll Number: 1931_0004

Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Lilbern Howell
Death Date: 1 Mar 1997
Death County: Carson
Gender: Male

Leon Howell, 65, died Saturday, March 1, 1997 in Carson County.

Funeral services will be held Tuesday, March 4, 1997 at 11 a.m. at First Baptist Church Chapel with the Rev. Gregg Simmons, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in the Garden of Love at Westlawn Memorial Park under the direction of Minton Chatwell Funeral Directors.

He was a native of Shamrock. He served in the National Guard & Reserves, retiring as Captain. He worked as Manager of Borger Redi Mix and Pampa Concrete retiring after 28 years. He had a C.B. shop.

He married Fern Jordan February 7, 1970 in Pampa.

Survivors include his wife of the home; his mother, Edith Howell of Ft. Worth; two sons, Gary of Poteau, Okla., Greg of LaVerne, Tenn., two stepsons, Larry Defries of Borger, Jerry Defries of Sunray; one daughter, Edye Jennings of Tulsa, Okla.; one step daughter, Carla Young of Belen, N.M.; one sister, Freda Rodriguez of Ft. Worth; 18 grandchildren and one granddaughter.

Memorials may be made to the American Heart Association.

(Published in Borger News Herald, March 3 and 4, 1997)

Obituary for Fern
Nelda Fern Goar
July 3, 1931 - June 2, 2017

Nelda Fern Goar went home to be with her Lord on June 2, 2017 in Amarillo. Nelda Fern was born July 3, 1931 in the Pruett family home in Reed, Oklahoma to Gracie Mae Pruett Jordan and Charter Jordan. The marriage ended in divorce shortly after her birth. Gracie married Leslie Rust and had another daughter, Juanita, but Gracie died at the age of 30, when her girls were 5 and 9 years old. Fern lived with her mother's older sister, Myrtle, and her husband, Parker Smith. Parker was Fern's "father figure" for the rest of her life. Fern lived with her beloved Granny Pruett all her teen years and graduated from Reed school as Valedictorian of her 8th grade and senior class.

Fern married W.D. (Dub) Defries and they had three children: Carla in 1951, Larry in 1953 and Jerry in 1955, giving Fern that "real home and family" she had dreamed of, but that ended in divorce after 13 years.

In 1970, Fern married Leon Howell, and was happily married for 27 years until Leon was killed in a car wreck on March 1, 1997.

Fern later married Tom Goar and enjoyed retirement by traveling a lot until Tom's son, Blaine died of Lou Gehrig's disease and six weeks later his older son, Randall, died of pancreatic cancer. Tom died after a lengthy illness on December 21, 2006.

In July, 2014, Fern gave up her home after 61 years in the Borger area and lived with Carla and Mike for 8 months before settling in Amarillo at Park Place Retirement Home.

Fern is survived by her daughter Carla and Mike Young of Ruidoso, New Mexico and 2 sons: Larry Defries and wife Marilyn of Clarendon, Texas and Jerry Defries and wife Whitney of Sunray, Texas; 12 grandchildren; 15 great grandchildren; "cousins like sisters" Edna and Glenda; half sister Juanita; Gary Howell and family and Vicki Goar Kemp and family.

Fern was a long time member of First Baptist Church, Borger, an active member of her beloved Sunday School class, a supporter of Jews for Jesus and M.I.N.T.O.R.

Funeral services will be held Monday, June 5, 2017 at 2:00 PM at First Baptist Church Worship Center, Borger. Burial will follow at Westlawn Cemetery, Borger.

She will lie in state on Sunday, June 4, from 12:00 - 6:00 PM at Brown's Chapel of the Fountains, Borger.

Services are entrusted to Brown Funeral Directors, Borger.

(Published by Brown Funeral Directors, June 3, 2017)

Contributed on 2/13/21 by neldapat
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Submitted: 2/13/21 • Approved: 2/13/21 • Last Updated: 2/16/21 • R389154-G389151-S3

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