Ella Mae McClendon

© Amarillo Globe News

Jan. 30, 2002

Used With Permission

DALHART - Ella Mae McClendon, 80, died Monday, Jan. 28, 2002, in Amarillo.

Services will be at 2 p.m. today in Hass Funeral Home Chapel with Jeff Taylor, minister of Central United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery.

Mrs. McClendon was born Dec. 23, 1921, in Erick, Okla., to Martin and Clara Ludecke Doyle. She moved with her family to Dalhart in 1929. She graduated from Dalhart High School in 1940.

She went to California and worked for Douglas Aircraft in Long Beach where B-17 bombers were built during World War II. She returned to Dalhart in 1945 and on April 3, 1945, she married Joe McClendon.

In 1968 he purchased Maytag Laundry. After his death in 1969, she continued to operate the laundry until 1983. Over 50 years ago her family built her a home on Tennessee Street and she has lived there since.

She was preceded in death by her husband; her parents; a granddaughter; five brothers; and four sisters.

Survivors include two sons, Ron McClendon and wife, Charleen, of Trinidad, Colo., and Freddy McClendon of Amarillo; a daughter, Vickie Barrow and husband, David, of Pampa; her brother-in-law, Jack McClendon of Dalhart; two sisters, Joy Tomlin of Amarillo and Margie Burton of Fort Worth; seven grandsons; and two great-grandchildren.

The family will be at 821 Tennessee in Dalhart.

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