Extracted from The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal (Lubbock, TX)
Tuesday, December 24, 1963

Roy E. Wardlaw Funeral Is Today

HALE CENTER (Special) -- Rites for Roy Eathen Wardlaw, 67, Lubbock, former longtime Hale Center resident, will be at 10 a.m. today at the Hale Center Church of Christ with Bill Brown and Paul Keller, Lubbock ministers, officiating.

Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Park under direction of Hale Center Funeral Home.

Wardlaw, a native of Ellis County, died Sunday morning at his home in Lubbock, 1614 56th St., where he had lived the past 18 months. A veteran of World War I, he was a member of American Legion Post No. 203. He moved to Hale Center in 1909.

Survivors include his wife, Delma, his mother, Mrs. Mary Wardlaw, Lockney; two sons, Bobby, Hale Center, and Louis, 3025 54th St.; a daughter, Mrs. Kenneth Hammitt, Stephenville; two stepsons, Irvin Himmell, St. Louis, Mo., and Carroll Himmell, Crosbyton; three brothers, Glenn, Hale Center; John, Plainview, and Ralph, Anchorage, Alaska; a sister, Miss Ocie Mae Wardlaw, Abilene; eight grandchildren and four step-grandchildren.

Pallbearers will be Don Connon, Swann Pettit, M. S. Watson, Roy Thomas, Arnold Banks and Arian Hammitt.