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Note: She had brown hair and eyes and was about 5-7 1/2 when she was grown.
She began to grey by age 40,which is pretty young, but so did I. She has worn glasses ever since I can remember, I'm not sure when she started .
Mother always had a garden out in the field and tomatoes etc. near the house and she would can vegetables all summer for us to eat all winter.
When she was young she helped Daddy in the field on occasion and after Brenda got up bigger but before going to school, she weighed cotton all one year. One year Daddy was in the hospital and she had to do more than just weigh. I believe that was the fall my Dad's nephew Bob (JR. )Hardman stayed and picked cotton and helped her too. She was never afraid of hard work.
I didn't like to hear it, but I found myself saying to the boys (just like I heard it from her)"If it's worth doing, it's worth doing right." AND THE FIRST TIME AROUND.
She was the one who handled most of the discipline in the family, and I got a lot of spankings, but guess I deserved most of them. I was stubborn then and still am (Don't tell anyone I admitted this!)
She married before finishing High School but they kept it a secret and she finished school anyway. At that time you couldn't remain in school if married.
They were separated in August of 1957 and divorced in Oct. or Nov. of 1957 and remarried on 21 December 1957 by Minister Laveal Merriott, recorded in Book 8 page 310.
LAMESA Services for Mabel Irene Medford, 83, of Clarksville will be at 2 p.m. today at Second Baptist Church in Lamesa with the Rev. Larry Reinecke officiating.
Burial will be in Lamesa Memorial Park under the direction of Branon Funeral Home of Lamesa.
She died Wednesday, Dec. 13, 2000, in Clarksville.
She was born April 27, 1917, in Mitchell County. She married Seldon I. Medford on Dec. 2, 1934, in O'Donnell. She moved to Dawson County in the 1920s, to Lamesa in 1976 and to Clarksville in 1999.
She was a bookkeeper for Dan Moore Trucking Co. She was a member of Second Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband; two daughters, Rose Parks of Avery and Brenda Thompson of Georgetown; a sister, Mattie Lee Corbitt of Magazine, Ark.; a brother, Blaine Wiggins of Lamesa; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren
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