Clifton Hamby was born on 13 September 1907 in Texhoma, Texas County, Oklahoma. He married on 9 November 1941 in Garden City, Cass County, Missouri to Annie Fay West. She was born 7 February 1907 to William Eustance and Lizzie Hochlander West. She had been married previously to a McCollom and had children. The obituary of Clifton Hamby says that Clifton was born in a half dugout home on an original homestead in Panhandle of Oklahoma Territory, a few miles northwest of Texhoma. He graduated from Guymon High School in 1926, attended Panhandle State College. He worked on the family farm in Oklahoma and then later on the Missouri farm when his parents left the Dust Bowl in 1935. After his wife died, he lived on his farm with their daughter Ella Mae McCollom. He was a devout Baptist and a Sunday School superintendent, as well as an ordained deacon of the church until the day of his death. "He loved his family very much and dedicated his life to them." Annie died on 6 August 2000 at El Dorado Springs, Cedar County, Missouri; Clifton died 11 November 2001 in Cedar County, at the grand age of 94. They are both buried at Virgil City Cemetery, Vernon County, Missouri
Clifton Hamby was born on 13 September 1907 in Texhoma, Texas County, Oklahoma. He married on 9 November 1941 in Garden City, Cass County, Missouri to Annie Fay West. She was born 7 February 1907 to William Eustance and Lizzie Hochlander West. She had been married previously to a McCollom and had children. The obituary of Clifton Hamby says that Clifton was born in a half dugout home on an original homestead in Panhandle of Oklahoma Territory, a few miles northwest of Texhoma. He graduated from Guymon High School in 1926, attended Panhandle State College. He worked on the family farm in Oklahoma and then later on the Missouri farm when his parents left the Dust Bowl in 1935. After his wife died, he lived on his farm with their daughter Ella Mae McCollom. He was a devout Baptist and a Sunday School superintendent, as well as an ordained deacon of the church until the day of his death. "He loved his family very much and dedicated his life to them." Annie died on 6 August 2000 at El Dorado Springs, Cedar County, Missouri; Clifton died 11 November 2001 in Cedar County, at the grand age of 94. They are both buried at Virgil City Cemetery, Vernon County, Missouri
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