Obituary

Services for Verna Oden, 77, of Lubbock will be at 10:30 a.m. Thursday at First Church of the Nazarene with the Rev. John Donnerberg officiating.

Burial will be in Abernathy Cemetery under the direction of Sanders Funeral Home.

She died Monday, Nov. 15, 1999, at Covenant Medical Center.

She was born Nov. 11, 1922, in Jester, Okla. She married C.H. "Heavy" Oden on Jan. 14, 1946, in Clovis, N.M. She lived in Petersburg and Plainview before moving to Lubbock in 1949. She was a homemaker and a bookkeeper for Oden Motor Service. She was a member of First Church of the Nazarene.

Survivors include her husband; a son, Robert L. Oden of Waxahachie; four brothers, Arlie Paxton of Abernathy, Marvin Paxton of Jacksonville, Fla., Thurman Paxton of Oklahoma and Don Paxton of Houston; a sister, Elouise Stanley of Atlanta, Ga.; three grandchildren; and three great-grandchildren.