Obituary

Funeral services for Azalea Greer,92, will be at 10 a.m. in the First Baptist Church Chapel with Dr. Travis Hart, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Cemetery by Lemons Funeral Home.

Mrs. Greer died Sunday, May 3, l992, in Central Plains Regional Hospital after a lengthy illness.

She was a descendent of the first Europeans of New Amsterdam New Netherland and a direct descendent of the Tunis Hood Famnily.

Her parents were Samuel Arthur Hood and Nancy E. Black Hood of DeLeon.

She was born Aza Lee Hood on Jan 23, 1900 near Bellfoutaine, Miss. She moved with her parents to the Comyne area of Comanche County in 1903. She was an organist and pianist at the Baptist Church in Comyne and DeLeon. Her Father as a teacher of Sacred Harp Singing and she, her parents and her brother Ottis, organized a quartet that sang through out the area. She graduated from DeLeon High School and Greggs Business College in Dublin. She began worked as a stenographer in 1918 for an oil company as well as for the president of the DeLeon Chamber of Commerce.

She married Joseph Marshall Greer on Feb. 4, l923 in DeLeon. He died June 15, l973 in Plainview.

She and her family lived several years in Abiline before moving to Plainview in l929 when they were asked by Conrad Hilton to come there to open and manage the Hilton Drug Store.

Mrs. Greer was active in PTA, sang on the first radio staton in Plainview in l930, was a member of the Mother's Singers, a Red Cross Volunteer during World War II, was a life member of the Women's Forum and was honored by the First Baptist Church of Plainview in l986 for 54 years of continuous teaching in Sunday School.

Survivors include a daughter, Mrs. LeRoy L. (Betty) Durbin of Plainview; a sister Mrs. Melvin S. (Lorena) Davis of Kerrville; and a granddaughter, Nancy Lew Durbin of Plaivniew.