Obituary

HALE CENTER ? Funeral services for Stanley Waits, 79, will be at 10 a.m. Saturday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Gene Meacham, director of the Caprock-Plains Baptist Area in Plainview, officiating. Burial will be in Abernathy Cemetery by Freeman-Abell Funeral Home of Hale Center. Mr. Waits died Thursday, March 7, 2002. He was born Sept, 6, 1922, in Desdemona and married Virginia Odam on Sept. 5, 1954, in Floydada. He moved to Abernathy in 1936 from Rule. He served in the South Pacific with the Army during World War II. In 1970, he moved from Abernathy to Hale Center. He was mill supervisor at South Plains Feedlot until retiring in 1982. Survivors include his wife; two sons, John Waits of DeSoto and Jeff Waits of Livingston; three daughters, Debra Rice, Elaine Siewert and Karen Rastetter, all of San Angelo; a brother, Monroe Waits of Abernathy; 11 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. A daughter, Eula Marie Waits, died in 1955. The family suggests memorials to the Hale Center Senior Citizens or to the Gideons.
Plainview Daily Herald - March 8, 2002