Last Update: October 29,
2003.
Hobbs News Sun,
4⁄18⁄1960. Funeral Services Set Tomorrow for Charlie
M. Fish. Funeral services
will be held here Tuesday for a former Hobbs man who was
killed in an automobile
accident in Lubbock, Tex., Saturday
afternoon. Charlie Martin Fish, 41, interior decorator, died and his wife,
son and daughter-in-law were injured in a crash which
occurred in a
Lubbock intersection. The car in which the Fish
family was riding had halted at a stop sign when it was struck in the rear
by a dump truck. Mrs. Pearl Fish was seriously injured. Her son and
daughter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Fish, were scheduled for release from the
hospital today.
Survivors include another
son, Charles, of Lubbock; parents, Mr. and Mrs. J.A. Fish,
Hammon, Okla.; five
brothers, Perry, Amarillo, Tex.; John, Oklahoma City,
Raymond, Hammon,
Okla.; and Earl and Ira, Hobbs. Seven sisters also
survive. They are Mrs. Joe Carden, San Jon; Mrs. albert Trent and
Mrs. Howard Hendrick, Elk City, Okla.; Mrs. Nick Blanken, Hammon, Okla.; Mrs. Andrew
Jenkins, Hobbs; Mrs. J. K. Boulware, San Mateo, Calif.; and Mrs. W. W. Gilbert,
Tulsa, Okla.
Mr. Fish moved to Hobbs in
1953, lived here five years, and then moved to
Lubbock. He is a
veteran of military service. His funeral will be at
3:30 p.m. Tuesday at the First Assembly of God Church with the pastor, the
Rev. Hubert R. Ratliff, pastor, officiating, and Rev. Nick Kovac of Lamesa, Tes.,
assisting. Burial will be in Prairie Haven
Cemetery under
direction of Griffen Funeral Home. Pallbearers will
be L. R. Peeples, H. D. Kendrick, H. J. Jenkins,
A. B. Chastain, Don Haddock, and C. C.
Huner. (From Natalie Davis)
Sent: Friday, February 15,
2002 12:47 PM . Subject: NM deaths. My great grandfather,
Timothy F. Herrington,
died July 14, 1914 in Ranger Lake, Lea County, NM and is probably buried on his old ranch
(homestead?) there. That date is before NM started keeping records so he is not listed
in the state's records. Congratulations on a fine project.
Thanks, Ed Tucker
Cottonwood, AZ