Oleta Bell Koontz Moffett's Obituary
CLARENDON
SERVICES- 2:00 pm on Tuesday, March 25, 2008 in the First Baptist Church in Clarendon with Rev. Lance Wood, Pastor, officiating & Jerry Koontz, her nephew, assisting.
INTERMENT - Citizens Cemetery in Clarendon.
Mrs. Moffett was born February 23, 1921 in Donley County. She was the twelfth of thirteen children born to Ulysses Grant Koontz & Mary Belle Mangus Koontz. She married Curtis W. Moffett on September 21, 1943 in Clarendon. They farmed in Donley County until the early 1990’s. She was a housewife. She was an inspiration to her family and the ones close to her. She became blind in 1973, but continued to prepare meals, wash dishes, do laundry and keep house until August of 1999 without complaint. She never got to visually see her grandchildren and great grandchildren, but could describe them better than those who could see them. She had a keen memory, and whenever someone in the family needed to know when something happened she would be the one to ask.
PRECEDED IN DEATH BY - her husband, on January 22, 2000; her parents.
SURVIVORS INCLUDE - 2 sons, Lanny Moffett and wife Jondel, Lyndel and wife Carolyn both of Clarendon; a daughter, Cheryl Phillips of Clarendon; a sister, Otha Eddleman of Claude; 7 grandchildren, Chris Phillips and wife Candra, Brendan Moffett and wife Danielle, Deana Phillips, Lana Jarvis and husband David, Tessa Moffett, Cindy Sadler and husband David, and Bud Courtney and wife Diana; 11 great grandchildren.
MEMORIALS - The family request memorials be to the Texas State Library & Archives Commission for the Blind / 4400 B Shoal Creek Blvd. / Austin, Texas 78756-3213 , Medical Center Nursing Home / PO Box 1007 / Clarendon, Texas 79226 or Odyssey Hospice.
THE FAMILY MAY BE CONTACTED AT: 519 East 2nd / P.O. Box 231 / Clarendon, Texas 79226 / Phone #:(806)874-2889
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