Obituary

Funeral services for Tom Stapleton, 63, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Northside Baptist Church in Abernathy with the Rev. Harold Poage officiating. Burial will be in Petersburg Cemetery by Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Plainview. Mr. Stapleton died Saturday, Aug. 4, 2007. He was born July 26, 1944, in Lubbock. He grew up in Plainview and graduated from Plainview High School in 1962. He worked for his father at Stapleton Brothers Machine Company. Amarillo Gear Company purchased the family business which he managed until its closure. He moved to Arkansas in 1985 and worked for Riceland Machine for several years and for North American Marine Jet before retiring in 1999. He was a charter member of Northside Baptist Church in Abernathy. Survivors include two sons and one daughter-in-law, Vince of Dallas and Debs and Jackie of McKinney; one brother, Shelby Stapleton of Amarillo; one sister, Fern Moseley of Earth; and two grandchildren. His parents, T.S. and Anna Mae Stapleton, are deceased.