Obituary

Funeral services for Marie Cornett Lewis, 84, will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church with Dr. Gene Meacham, director of the Caprock-Plains Baptist Area, officiating. Burial will be in Hale Center Cemetery with Freeman-Abell Funeral Home. Mrs. Lewis died Sunday, Nov. 27, 2005, at Covenant Hospital Plainview. She was born Sept. 13, 1921, in Haskell to Junior Braxton and Elma Cornett. She married Foy Lewis on June 10, 1968, in Floydada. She lived in Hale Center most of her life. She was employed as a caregiver at Denton State School. She was a member of First Baptist Church where she was a very involved volunteer. She also was a member of Hale Center Senior Citizens. Survivors include three sons, Braxton McKinney of Idalou, Donnie McKinney of Plainview and Eddie McKinney of Hale Center; two daughters, Jeannie Forrest and Kathy Sherrod of Lubbock; one stepson, Robert Lewis of Dallas; one stepdaughter, Sue Wilson of Dallas; one brother, Sonny Cornett of Hale Center; three sisters, Jeanette Steen and Nell Rogers of Hale Center and Jean Curry of Tahoka; 13 grandchildren and 20 great-grandchildren. Her husbands, Cloyd McKinney, Franklin Fox and Foy Lewis, are all deceased.