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Martin Raymond Sheets

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Martin Raymond Sheets Veteran

Birth
Hutchinson County, Texas, USA
Death
7 Jul 2000 (aged 87)
Amarillo, Potter County, Texas, USA
Burial
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SPEARMAN - Martin Raymond Sheets, 87, died Thursday, July 13, 2000, in Amarillo.

Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Holt Cemetery near Spearman with Leonard Harper, minister of Spearman Church of Christ, officiating. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home.

Mr. Sheets was born in Jeffrey. He graduated from Spearman High School and attended Panhandle State College at Goodwell, Okla. During World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps.

He lived in Albuquerque, N.M., working for a government contractor and retiring in 1969. He had lived in Amarillo for several years, moving from Bracketville. He was a member of the Church of Christ.

Mr. Sheets married Inez Meador Harbert in 1940.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Jack Harbert of Uvalde; five brothers, Daniel Sheets, Branch Sheets, S.B. Sheets and Claude Sheets Jr., all of Spearman and Willis Sheets of Round Rock; three sisters, Grace Harmon of Wharton, Francis Cudd of Spearman and Zola Mitchell of Waco; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Amarillo Daily News, July 14, 2000
SPEARMAN - Martin Raymond Sheets, 87, died Thursday, July 13, 2000, in Amarillo.

Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Holt Cemetery near Spearman with Leonard Harper, minister of Spearman Church of Christ, officiating. Arrangements are by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home.

Mr. Sheets was born in Jeffrey. He graduated from Spearman High School and attended Panhandle State College at Goodwell, Okla. During World War II, he served with the Army Air Corps.

He lived in Albuquerque, N.M., working for a government contractor and retiring in 1969. He had lived in Amarillo for several years, moving from Bracketville. He was a member of the Church of Christ.

Mr. Sheets married Inez Meador Harbert in 1940.

Survivors include his wife; a son, Jack Harbert of Uvalde; five brothers, Daniel Sheets, Branch Sheets, S.B. Sheets and Claude Sheets Jr., all of Spearman and Willis Sheets of Round Rock; three sisters, Grace Harmon of Wharton, Francis Cudd of Spearman and Zola Mitchell of Waco; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

Amarillo Daily News, July 14, 2000

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