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Mary Pearl Farris Curry
17 Nov 1919 – 25 Feb 2010
| Birth | 17 Nov 1919 |
| Death | 25 Feb 2010 |
| Cemetery | Sweetwater Cemetery Sweetwater , Nolan County , Texas , USA |
| Added by | Anonymous Child on 27 Feb 2010 |
| FaG | https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/48871983 |
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Mary Pearl Farris Curry Funeral services for Mary Pearl Farris Curry, 90, of Midland and formerly of Sweetwater, will be held at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 1, 2010, at Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home Chapel with Joe Bagby, Allen Brock and Kenny Jones officiating. Burial will follow at Sweetwater Cemetery under the direction of Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 3-5 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 28, 2010, at Cate-Spencer & Trent Funeral Home, located at 403 Locust in Sweetwater. Curry died Thursday, Feb. 25, 2010, at Midland Memorial Hospital in Midland, TX. She was born Nov. 17, 1919, in Sweetwater to Robert A. and Vida Wilson Farris. She graduated from Sweetwater Newman High School in 1937 and worked for the Sweetwater Credit Bureau. Mary married Carrell Bert Jones in Sweetwater on March 14, 1941. They had four children, all born in Sweetwater. They moved first to Anson then to Kermit in 1951. She worked for several Winkler County attorneys and for Dr. Cecil Robinson before retiring as Administrative Assistant to the Winkler County Judge. After the death of Mr. Jones in 1980, Mary moved briefly to Abilene to be near her children, then moved back to Kermit. She married Gene Burnett on July 16, 1984, in Kermit. Mr. Burnett died in 1988. Mary then married Marshall Curry in Austin on Sept. 7, 1990. The couple moved to Sweetwater where they lived, except for a brief time in Odessa, until his death in 2004. Mary remained in Sweetwater until she moved to Midland in October 2009. She passed from this life on Feb. 25, 2010. Mary was a committed Christian and was active in the Church of Christ wherever she lived. She taught Sunday school and sang with various groups for wedding and church functions. She was a member of Beta Sigma Phi and the National Federation of Business and Professional Women while in Kermit. Mary was honored and loved by her children, whom she raised in a loving Christian home. She laughed often and well. She gave freely of her time and energy to her friends and family and to anyone who was in need, often opening her home and her purse to give assistance, even to strangers. "Her worth is far above rubies." She is survived by her daughter, Mary Ann Brock and husband Allen of Midland; and son, Kenny Jones and wife Patricia of New Braunfels; daughter-in-law, Billie Jones of Phoenix, Ariz.; step children, Butch Burnett and wife Jacque of Portland, Oregon an Betsy Burnett and husband Darryl Snyder of Ruidoso, N.M.; 13 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; six great-great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews. Mary was preceded in death by her husbands, Bert Jones, Gene Burnett and Marshall Curry; her son, Tim Jones; a daughter, Carol Clemens; son-in-law, Michael Clemens; and a great-grandson, Adam Rogers. From THE SWEETWATER (TX) REPORTER (2/27/2010)
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- Stanley Eugene "Gene" Burnett 1911–1987 FaG
- Carrell Bert Jones 1917–1980 FaG
- Marshall Richard Curry 1920–2004
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