Clyde M. Curry

SERVICES: Graveside services will be at 10:00 AM Wednesday, July 2, 2008, at Memory Gardens Cemetery with Rodney Tedford, Church of Christ minister, officiating. Arrangements are by Carmichael-Whatley Funeral Directors.BIOGRAPHY: Mr. Curry was born Feb. 12, 1910 in Hollis, Oklahoma to G. E. and Allie Myrtle Moreland Curry. In the late 1930s, he moved from Hollis to Texas with his parents and siblings. The family settled west of Kress in a farming community called Center Plains. He soon met a pretty young lady named Wandell Carruth, and they married on Aug. 17, 1941 in Tulia. He farmed in Swisher and Hale Counties, and when retired from farming, he and Wandell moved to Gallup, New Mexico to serve as house parents at the Manuelito Navajo Children's Home there. Later they lived at Mentmore, New Mexico where Mrs. Curry worked as Postmaster. Mr. Curry was a faithful member of the Church of Christ all his adult life and loved to sing, often serving as song leader in various congregations. Even after his 98th birthday, he still delighted nurses at the hospital and at Pampa Nursing Center by singing to them. Mr. and Mrs. Curry returned to Texas in 1982, living first in White Deer and then later in Pampa. He was preceded in death by his parents, 2 brothers, Earl and Newell Curry, and by 5 sisters: Eula Bird, Lois Moon, Vera Holland, Edith Staniforth, and Eunice Curry.SURVIVORS: His wife of almost 67 years, Wandell Curry; a daughter, Sharon Ruth Sandlin and husband Rick of Brandon, Florida; a son, Alton Curry and wife Judy of Pampa; 5 grandchildren: Amy Wiseman and husband Will, Nathan Blackwell, Jon Blackwell, Alan Curry and Alex Curry; and by a great grandson, Sam Wiseman.Honorary pallbearers are all the employees of Pampa Nursing Center.MEMORIALS: High Plains Children's Home, P. O. Box 7448, Amarillo, TX 79114.