Amarillo Globe News
Amarillo, Texas
December 16, 1997
May Cosby
Roswell, N.M.--------May Cosby, 85, died Friday, Dec. 12, 1997.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Wheeler Mortuary Chapel with the
Rev. J.R. "Dick" Ross and the Rev. Steve Smith officiating. Burial will be
in the Portales Cemetery.
Mrs. Cosby was born in Albion, Okla., and lived her early years in
Oklahoma. She moved to Portales in 1948, where she lived until 1957. She
married J.O. ( Orville) Cosby in 1935 at Hobart, Okla. She was a member of
University Baptist Church at Portales. They returned to Clovis in the
mid-1980s. He died in 1995. She then moved to Portales, and for the past
year lived in Roswell.
Survivors include two sons, Jerry Cosby of Roswell and James Richard Cosby
of Denton, Texas; a daughter, Illa Jones of Farmington; a sister, Ruth
Heath of Enid, Okla.; two brothers, Kenneth Shaw of Enid and Odes Shaw of
Poncal City, Okla.; 13 grandchildren; and 21 great-grandchildren.