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Submitted: 4/30/21 • Approved: 5/2/21 • Last Updated: 5/5/21 • R415016-G0-S3
October 17, 1922 - June 2, 1982
*Obituary
First Baptist Church in Crosbyton was the site at 10 a.m. Friday for memorial services for James Raymond Pierce of Round Rock, who was reared in the Crosbyton area. The Rev. Richard Mangum, pastor of the campus at the Texas Children´s Home at Round Rock, officiated.
Interment was made in Crosbyton Cemetery, under direction of Adams Funeral Home. Nephews served as pallbearers.
Mr. Pierce, 59, was claimed by death at 7 a.m. last Wednesday in Lubbock General Hospital, where he had been receiving treatment for several weeks.
He and his wife served as cottage parents at the Texas Baptist Children´s Home in Round Rock.
Born Oct. 17, 1922 in Hill County, Raymond Pierce moved to the East Plains when he was almost six.
A farmer for several years in this area, his father, J.J. (Jewel) Pierce, became sheriff of Crosby County on Jan. 1, 1947. Seven months after he took office, Jewel Pierce was fatally shot Aug. 2, 1947, while arresting a bootlegger in Ralls.
Raymond Pierce and the former Mary Boyd were married Jan. 9, 1970, in Lubbock.
Mr. Pierce farmed in Crosby County and later was employed for 20 years by Santa Fe Railroad in Lubbock. The family moved to Round Rock nine years ago from Abilene.
He was a member of the First Baptist Church in Round Rock.
Survivors include his wife, Mary; his mother, Carl Pierce of Lubbock; one son, Orval Pierce of Houston; three daughters, Sharon Hutchins of Houston, Edith Blessing of Arlington and Cynthia Meeks of Midland; one stepdaughter, Carolyn Baliff of Aurora, Indiana; five brothers, J.C. Pierce, Quill Pierce, Donald Pierce and Dick Pierce, all of Lubbock, and David Pierce of Burleson; two sisters, Mrs. Olan (Lula Mae) Johnson of Lubbock and Mrs. Thomas (Katie) Davis of Crosbyton; and five grandchildren.
Contributed on 4/30/21 by texasfindagraver
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