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Submitted: 4/13/21 • Approved: 4/15/21 • Last Updated: 4/18/21 • R408517-G408516-S3
April 11, 1929 - March 3, 2011
*Obituary
Dora Irene (Markham) Nowlin, 81, died Thursday March 3, 2011 at a Lubbock hospital. Services will be 2:00 p.m. Sunday March 6, 2011 at the First United Methodist Church in Rotan. Burial will follow at Belvieu Cemetery under the direction of Weathersbee-Ray Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. Saturday at the funeral home.
Born April 11, 1929 in Mount Ida, AR, Irene was the daughter of the late Charlie and Lillie Mae (Dowell) Markham. Irene moved to Rotan in 1940 where she lived the rest of her life, and graduated from Rotan High School. She married Dwight Nowlin in Rotan on December 22, 1950. The only time Irene lived away from Fisher County was while Dwight was in the Air Force in Pensacola FL. Irene was a homemaker and loved to play bridge. She was a member of the First United Methodist of Rotan. Irene was preceded in death by her parents, Husband in 1988, four brother, (Ellis, Buster, Carl and Lawrence Markham).
Irene is survived by two sons and daughters-in-law, Steve and Jarita Nowlin of Rotan and Stuart and Tammy Nowlin of Rotan; one daughter and son-in-law, Kathy and Neal Summers of Midland; six grandchildren, Bryan Nowlin, Jarrod Greene, Joel Clary, Tara Nowlin, Paige Terry and her husband, Tyson, and Seth Summers, and one great-grandchild, Betsy Terry.
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