Obituary

Hamlin, Harry Clinton, Mrs. (Mary Frances Neff)

Funeral services for Mary Frances Hamlin, 90, will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Parkview Baptist Church wih the Rev. Joe P. Weldon, pastor of South Plains Baptist Church, and the Rev. Steve Martin, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in Parklawn Memorial Gardens by Bartley Funeral Home.

Mrs. Hamlin died Wednesday, Jan. 7, 2004, in Covenant Hospital.

She was born Aug. 13, 1913, in Coleman. She moved to Plainview in 1965 from Petersburg.

She was a homemaker, a farmer and a member of Parkview Baptist Church.

On Aug.25, 1947, she married Harry Clinton Hamlin in Stanton. He died in 1969.

Survivors include a son and a daughter-in-law, Hulan and Billie Hamlin of Aiken; a daughter, Anne Read of Big Spring; a brother and sister-in-law, Albert "Buddy" and Ruby Nell Neff of Coleman; a sister-in-law, Juanita Hamlin of Big Spring; seven grandchildren, Mary Anne Hamlin, Kevin Hamlin and Lacey Hamlin, all of Aiken, Angela Watson of Kress, Nell Read of Frisco, Mark Read of Haverhill, Mass., and Rebecca Read of Austin; and five great-grandchildren, Garrett, Justin and Seth Watson of Kress and Spencer and Lauren Read of Frisco.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home from 6-7 p.m. today.

Plainview Daily Herald-- Jan. 8, 2004