Obituary

McFadden, Roy

Funeral services for Roy McFadden, 101, will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church Chapel with Dr. Travis Hart, pastor, officiating.

Burial will be in Parklawn Memorial Garden by Lemons Funeral Home. Mr. Mcfadden died at 9:36 p.m. Monday, Jan. 15, 2001 in IHS of Lubbock.

He was born Nov. 27, 1899, in Cass County, Iowa where he grew up. He attended Galion school in Griswold, Iowa. His family raised horses and sold them to the Barnum & Bailey Circus.

On March 26, 1925, he married Vera Frank and they drove to Olton in August of 1925 in a Chalmers truck. There were no highways and most of the roads were just trails across the prairie. They lived in a dugout and as soon as they could afford it, he built a house and fenced the farm.

He caught wild horses, tamed them and used them to break the land that he farmed. He drilled on of the first irrigation wells in Lamb County in 1935. It took 32 days to drill to a depth of 50 feet and the well pumped and 8-inch pipe full of water.

He retired in 1960 and they moved to Plainview where he resided until moving to Lubbock until December.

Mrs. McFadden died May 4, 1993, two months after their 68th anniversary,

He served in the U.S. Army and was one of the last surviving World War I veterans in Hale County. He was an honorary member of Ray Blakemore Post 260 of the American Legion.

Survivors include one daughter. Mrs. Frank (Rosalie) Sims of Lubbock; two sons and a daughter-in-law, Royce and Pat McFadden and Rex McFadden, all of Lubbock; two sisters, Marie Frank of Boulder, Colo., and Maude Brown of Atlantic, Iowa; eight grandchildren and 17 great-grandchildren. A daughter, Mary Ann McFadden and a son, Elmo Earl McFadden, are deceased.

Plainview Daily Herald- Jan. 17, 2001