COLEMAN -- Funeral services for Clitis H. Sinclair, 77, of Coleman, will be held at 3 p.m. Friday, Feb. 14 in Stevens Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Dr. Henry N. Chisholm officiating. Burial with military honors will follow in Bangs Cemetery under the direction of Stevens Funeral Home. Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. tonight at the funeral home.
Mr. Sinclair died Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2003, at an Abilene hospital.
Mr. Sinclair was born Sept. 26, 1925, in Mt. Pleasant, Titus County, to the late Carl and Emma Wiltrout Sinclair. He grew up in Mt. Pleasant and attended school there. He served in the United States Navy during WW II in the South Pacific. He was a graduate of Texas A & M University, receiving his bachelor of science degree in agriculture education.
In 1951, he married Patsy Findley in Bangs. He lived for many years in Ozono and Ruidoso, N. M., moving to Coleman in 1997. He retired from the USDA Soil Conservation Service as a district conservationist. He was a member of the United Christian Presbyterian Church in Coleman and a member of Masonic Lodge # 578.
Survivors include his wife, Patsy Sinclair of Coleman; two daughters, Jan Beck of Midland and Kim Horton and husband, Danny, of Bangs; son, Kelly Sinclair and wife, Cheryl, of Los Lunas, N. M.; brother, Karl Sinclair and wife, Doris, of Newalla, Okla.; two sisters, Berniece Edwards of Waco and Sue Sterling of Longview; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.