Funeral services were held at 2:30 p. m. last Friday for Mr. J. E. McNew, pioneer resident of Dawson County, who succumbed at 10:25 a. m. Thursday.

Funeral services were held at the Funeral Home here and conducted by Rev. Webb. Burial was in the Lamesa Cemetary.

Uncle Jim, as he was generally known, was 79 years of age. He is survived by his widow, two sons and one daughter, Lee, Boyce and Laneta, one brother, Uncle Joe McNew of Howard County and a sister, Mrs. Sarah Edmondson of Lamesa, and hosts of other relatives and friends.

Pallbearers were his nephews: John, Clyde and Wesley Edmonson, George, Joe and Jay McNew.

LAMESA--Henry Eugene McNew, 81, died in a Lubbock hospital Tuesday after an illness of about a month.

McNew was a farmer near Lamesa until his retirement over a year ago and had lived in Plains since that time.

Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. saturday in the North 14th St. Church of Christ in Lamesa with Cecil Williams, minister of the Church of Christ, Plains, officiating. He will be assisted by Larry Marshall, minister of the North 14th St. Church of Christ. Interment will be in Lamesa Memorial Park under direction of Branon-Philips Funeral Home...

Joseph Nelson McNew, 57, Dawson county farmer, died at 8:34 a.m. Tuesday in the Veterans Administration Hospital in Big Spring, where he had been ill for 29 days.

Funeral services are to be held at 3 p.m. Thursday at the First Baptist church, with Rev. E. L. Jones and Rev. W. A. James officiating. Burial will be in Lamesa Memorial Park...Mr. McNew, who lived on Star Route 4, had been a resident of Dawson county for 46 years. He was born Jan. 11, 1895, in Denton county, and was a World War I veteran. He was a Baptist...

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Thursday afternoon for Mrs. Eliza McNew, pioneer resident of Howard County who succumbed at 12:12 p.m. Wednesday in Big Spring. Burial was made in the New Mt. Olive cemetery following rites at the Eberly Funeral Home conducted by Rev. Horace Goodman. Music was directed by Mr. and Mrs. Ira M. Powell.

Mrs. McNew, 66, had resided with her husband in the county for approximately 30 years...

Mrs. McNew was born November 14, 1869, in Union county, Tennessee...

Here for the funeral were two of Mr. McNew's bothers, J. E. and J. L. McNew of the Lamesa route, and a sister, Mrs. Sarah Edmondson, of Lamesa...

Mrs. R.W. (Delia) McNew, 92, died Thursday morning at her home following a lengthy illness. Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday at Trinity Baptist Church with Dr. Claude Craven, pastor, and Rev. Guy White, pastor at East Fourth Street Baptist Church, officiating.

Burial will be at Trinity Memorial Park.

She was born Jan. 21, 1893, in Gorman. She married Roy W. McNew Aug. 22, 1914, in Huto. He died Sept. 24, 1967.

She was a member of the Trinity Baptist Church and the Big Spring Rebekah Lodge No. 284. She attended college at Stepp. She also attended the Catholic convent in Stanton for one year because it was the only school in the county at that time.

She moved to Howard County in 1903 in a covered wagon with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee S. Hamlin. They farmed and ranched north of Big Spring until 1936 when they moved to Big Spring...

Services are scheduled for 10:30 a.m., Thursday at Trinity Baptist Church for Ethel Mae McCracken, 60, who died at 11:20 Monday in a Lubbock hospital following an extended illness.

Dr. Claude Craven, pastor, will officiate. Burial will occur in Trinity Memorial Park under the direction of Nalley-Pickle Funeral Home.

Mrs. McCracken was born April 3, 1917 in Big Spring. She attended public schools in Highway and Knott, and graduated from Big Spring High School.

She later attended Draughan's Business College in Abilene.

She began work with the J.B. Collins Insurance and Loan Agency, then located at 112 E. 2nd, in 1938. World War II interrupted the business, and during this time Mrs. McCracken served as a chief supply clerk at Fort Hood.

The business was reopened after the war at 204 Runnels, and Mrs. McCracken returned to work. After several years she became a partner in the firm.

Later, Mr. Collins sold his share of the business to another longtime employe and sister of Mrs. McCracken, Bonnie Bennett. The name of the firm was then changed to Howard County Insurance Agency.

All in all, Mrs. McCracken's ties with the agency spanned nearly 40 years.

She was a member of the Trinity Baptist Church, Altrusa International and the Big Spring Insurance Association...

Services are pending for Mrs. Polly Louella Clem, 21, at Nalley-Pickle Funeral Home. She had been injured in a traffic mishap July 4 at Third and Gregg Streets and died Sunday 10 p.m.

Mrs. Clem was born Oct. 11, 1950, in Big Spring and married Billy D. Clem June 17 in Big Spring. She graduated from Big Spring high school 1971, and also graduated from Valtai Reeves School of Hair Dressing and Cosmotology...

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