Martha Aileen Childers

SERVICES: Graveside services will be at 11:00 AM Wednesday, September 22, 2010, at Fairview Cemetery, with Pastor Jim Wart of Seventh Day Adventist Church, officiating. Arrangements are under the direction of Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors. BIOGRAPHY: Mrs. Childers was born October 7, 1919 in Mobeetie to Aubry and Minnie Lancaster. She graduated from Mobeetie High School in 1937 as salutatorian. She married Leonard "Bob" Childers on December 20, 1941 in Sayre, Oklahoma. She had been a resident of Pampa since 1941. In 1969, at the age of 50, she obtained her LVN license and worked as a nurse until her retirement. Aileen enjoyed hobbies, crafts, and loved to fish. She was a member and church pianist for the Seventh Day Adventist Church of Pampa. SURVIVORS: husband: Bob Childers of the home; 2 daughters: Sandra Kay Adcox and husband John of Grand Junction, Colorado, and Bobbye Thomson and husband John of St. Maries, Idaho; twin sister: Eileen Zell of Bethany, Oklahoma; 5 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren. Aileen was preceded in death by her great-granddaughter: Morgan Mosby in 2001, a grandson: Jeremy Thomson in 2005; and 3 brothers.