Cora Armitage

Armitage, Cora Jean Funeral services for Cora Jean Armitage, 80, of Roswell, will be at 11:00 a.m. on Monday, June 4, 2012, at the Kenna Community Church with Mr. Peter Dahlstrom officiating. Rhonda and Stephanie Bailey will provide musical arrangements. Burial will follow at the Kenna Cemetery with Bobby Carroll, Chris Francis, J. D. Kibbe, Tommy Skipworth, Buddy Vaughan and Dale Vaughan serving as pallbearers. Honorary pallbearers are John Skipworth, Gary Don DeGraw, Roy K. Buddy Skipworth, Jake Barnes, Melvin Butch DeGraw, Rocky Tivis, and all her family and friends.

Cora Jean was born on September 3, 1931, in Elida, New Mexico to Odus Vaughan and Nannie Deering Vaughan and passed away on May 30, 2012, in Hobbs. She was one of five children. She attended elementary school at Olive, which is west of Kenna later she attended Elida Public Schools. Cora Jean worked as a telephone operator in Tatum, Elida and Portales. She married Glen Edwin Armitage on August 3, 1957. Shortly afterwards they moved to Roswell where she continued to work as an operator for Mountain Bell. She has two sons, Clyde Dwayne Kibbe and daughterinlaw, Karen of Portales and Gary Edwin Armitage of Lovington, as well as a stepson Russell Armitage of Udall, Kansas. She has five grandchildren: Kasi Holland and husband Brad, J. D. Kibbe, Jodi Kibbe, Kenna Armitage and Kodi Armitage. Also, she has two greatgrandsons Jordan and Derrick Holland. She is survived by two sisters, Jenene DeGraw of Neosho, Missouri, and Virginia Tootsie Barnes of Bloomfield, New Mexico.

Cora Jean was affectionately known as Granny Jean to all her grandkids. She loved watching her children and grandchildren at junior rodeos and basketball games. She has thousands of hours of video tape of them participating in rodeo events. Glen and Cora Jean were both active in the Chavez County Sherriffs Posse and helped with play days and served people at the Eastern New Mexico State Fair every fall for many years. After working 25 years for Mountain Bell, she retired and was active in the Jingle Bob Chapter of the Pioneers.

Cora Jean was an avid seamstress and enjoyed crafts when she and her sisters would get together. They were a creative and artistic group making wind chimes, hook rugs, macram plant hangers and Christmas ornaments. Many happy hours were spent playing board games and dominoes with family and friends.

Cora Jean was preceded in death by her husband of thirtyseven years, Glen her parents her brother Jesse Odus Junior Vaughan an older sister Jo Juana Skipworth one granddaughter and one greatgrandson.

A special thank you to the Desert Gardens nurses and staff, who provided for her with love and care during the last months of her life. Any memorial in her name may be made to the Center for Dementia Research, Nathan Kline Institute, 140 Old Orangeburg Road, Orangeburg, NY 10962.

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