Name: Eldora A White [Eldora A Lewis]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Age: 68
Birth Date: 14 Aug 1889
Birth Place: Comanche, Texas
Residence: Brownfield, Terry, Texas, USA
Death Date: 20 Jan 1958
Death Place: Brownfield, Terry, Texas, USA
Father:
Robert R Lewis
Mother:
Mary Elizabeth Covington
Certificate Number: 5761
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- Eldora Alberta [Lewis] White was the daughter of Robert R & Mary Elizabeth [Covington] Lewis.
She married John Calvin White, on May 31, 1924, in Brownfield Terry County Texas.
They had two children:
Alma Joe White, died at birth, and Norval "Ted" L White.
Eldora, inherited 4 surviving children from John's first marriage, they remember Eldora, for the love and care she provided them all equally as children.
The 4 children were: Clifford, Leola, Thomas and Nora.
After John's death, Eldora, had to raise the family and provide for them, she took on an elected public service job as District Clerk, a position she held for 26 years.
She had the following siblings:
Clyde, Clarence, Dalton, Mrs JB Huckabee, Mrs George Warren, and Mrs U D Sawyer.
Her Parents Robert and Mary Lewis are also buried at this cemetery.
Obituary of Elora:
Brownfield News
Terry County Herold
(January 23, 1958)
Death Ends Distinguished Career of Public Servant
The death here Monday of Mrs. Eldora White brought to an end her distinguished and unbroken career as clerk for 26 years of the 106th Judicial District.
Mrs. White died early Monday morning in her home of 415 East Hill. She was 68, and had been ill for several months.
Funeral services were held Tuesday afternoon in First Baptist Church, eith Dr, Jones W. Weathers, pastor, officiating, assisted by the Rev. James
E. Tidwell, pastor of First Methodist Church.
Burial was in Brownfield Cemetery by Brownfield Funeral Home.
Among her survivors are one son, Ted White of Odessa; four stepchildren; Clifford White of Tolison Ariz., T. W. White of Bostonia Calif., Mrs. Leola
Ward of Whittier Calif., and Mrs. Johnny Haynes of 231 South B, and three brothers, Clyde Lewis, Clarence Lewis and Dalton Lewis, all of Brownfield, three sisters, Mrs. J. B. Huckabee of 601 North First, Mrs. George Warren of Levelland, and Mrs. U. D. Sawyer of Crossroads, N. M. and 18 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
Came here in 1910.
Pallbearers Tuesday were
Ike Bailey, H. M. Pyeat?, Herbert Chesahir?, Erwin Rambo?, Carl Stephenson and Bob Barnett.
Immediate relatives named her many friends as honorary
pallbearers.
In 1823, Mrs. White was married to Jay White. She had come to Terry County in 1910 with her family from Comanche County, her birth place.
The family farmed North West of Brownfield after arriving here in a covered wagon from Symter. Mrs. White worked as a young women in
Brownfield Merchant Company, Brownfield State Bank, the Old pony?, and in her brother's department store.
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1889 - 1958 (68 years)
