Merlin O'Brien

Graveside services for Merlin OBrien, 87, of Ruidoso Downs will be Thursday, October 31, at 2:00 PM in East Hill Cemetery at Ft. Stockton, Texas. Ms. OBrien was born September 1, 1926 at Pioneer, Texas.

She had lived at Ft. Stockton, Odessa, Mason and Buchanan Lake all in Texas, in New Mexico she had lived in Tularosa, Alamogordo and Ruidoso Downs for the past eleven years. She had taught school for 20 years in Tularosa and had also taught in Fredericksburg, TX and Mason, TX.

She is survived by a son, Larry Don Kelly 3 brothers, Joyce Richardson, Warren Dean Richardson and Charles Richardson sister, Bonnie Schnaubert and many nieces and nephews.