Ethel A. Shelton, 104, passed away Wednesday, March 20, 2013 in Graham. Funeral services will be held Saturday, March 23, 2013 at 2:00 p.m. in Morrison Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in Restland Cemetery in Olney. Arrangements are under the direction of Morrison Funeral Home.
Ethel was born July 12, 1908 in Hermleigh to Dock D. and Virgie May (Kee) Lindley. She was saved and baptized at age 15 in First Baptist Church in Quanah. She graduated from Quanah High School in 1926 and attended West Texas State Teacher's College in Canyon. She came to Graham in 1937 where she was employed by South-Western Bell Telephone Company from which she retired with 35 years of service. She was a charter member of the Woman's Club of Graham and a member of First Baptist Church since 1946.
Survivors include: son, Dock Dwayne Cawthon of Graham; step-son, Robert Shelton and wife, Jocelyn of Tennessee; 3 grandsons and 3 step grandsons, 8 great grandchildren, and 4 great great grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband, R.B. Shelton in 1989, brother, Alton Lindley, and sisters, Anna Lee Alexander and Dorothy Reams.
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