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Melba Guinn Holbert
Melba Guinn Holbert, 80, loving wife, mother, grandmother and great-grandmother, departed this life Monday, Oct. 5, 2009, after a sudden illness.
Funeral services are set for 10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 10, at Life Tabernacle Church in Cunningham with burial to follow at Restland Cemetery in Cunningham. Arrangements are under the care of White Funeral Home in Lubbock and Bright-Holland Funeral Home in Paris.
Visitation for family and friends in the Paris/Cunningham area is to be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Friday at Bright-Holland Funeral Home. Visitation for family and friends in the Lubbock area is to be held from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at White Funeral Home, 2210 Broadway St. in Lubbock.
She was born in Cunningham to Clyde and Thelma Bankhead Sept. 9, 1929. A 1947 graduate of Cunningham High School, she married Horton W. “Buddie” Holbert June 26, 1948. After moving to Lubbock in 1952, she became a life-long Lubbock resident. She was a long-time employee of Texas Tech University.
She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Lloyd Marshall and Clyde Elmer Bankhead; and one grandson, James Thomas Travis.
She is survived by her husband, Buddie Holbert; four children and their spouses, Jarita and Ed Pascasio, Rhonda and Michael Glass, Jerry and Lara Holbert, Robby and Patricia Holbert, all of Lubbock; nine grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and one sister, Elaine Wheeler of Baker, Mont.
To leave a message or tribute for the family, please visit www.brighthollandfuneralhome.com.
Published October 8, 2009
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