David Sumpter

Funeral services for David Earl Sumpter of Hobbs, New Mexico, will be 2 p.m. Friday, September 5, 2008, at Chapel of Hope Funeral Home with Pastor Jerry McArthur officiating. Burial will follow at Prairie Haven Memorial Park.

Visitation is 10 a.m.-6 p.m. Thursday, September 4, 2008, at Chapel of Hope with the famishy;ly attendance from 4-6 p.m. and 8 a.m. until service time Friday.

Arrangements are under the direction of Chapel of Hope Funeral Home.

Mr. Sumpter, 91, died September 2, 2008, at Good Samaritan Village.

David Earl Sumpter was born February 21, 1917, in Nola, Arkansas, to Jessie Earl Sumpter and Effie Earnestine Daily Sumpter. Mr. Sumpter was a member and deacon of the First Free Will Baptist Church in Kermit, Texas, and later a member and deacon of NorthGate Free Will Baptist Church in Hobbs, New Mexico. He was Worthy Patron at the Hobbs Lodge No. 63, a Past Patron in the Eastern Star in Bethany Chapter No. 56 in Hobbs and Past Patron five times at Kermit. He was also a 32nd degree Mason and memshy;ber of the Scottish Rite in El Paso, Texas, since October 1964. He worked for Skelly and Getty Oil Company for 30 years and retired in 1980.

Survivors include a son, Ray Sumpter and wife Charlotte of Fritch, Texas; a daughter, Patricia Baxter of Austin, Texas; three stepsons, Norman W. Martin of Arkansas, Donald R. Martin of Cookson, Oklahoma, and Robert L. Martin of Edmond, Oklahoma; four grandshy;children; seven great-grandshy;children; 13 step-grandchilshy;dren; 24 step-great-grandchilshy;dren; one great-great-grandshy;child; and several nieces and nephews.

He was preceded in death by his first wife, Nova McDonald Sumpter on October 17, 1999, and his second wife, Peggy Sumpter on August 30, 2002.

The family request in lieu of flowers, memorials may be made to NorthGate Free Will Baptist Church Building Fund, 7201 N. Grimes, Hobbs, New Mexico.

Visitation

Chapel of Hope
3321 N. Dal Paso
Hobbs, NM  88240
Thursday, September 4, 2008
10:00 a.m. 6:00 p.m.

Service

Memorial Service

Chapel of Hope
3321 N. Dal Paso St.
Hobbs, NM  88240
Friday, September 5, 2008
2:00 p.m. Friday

Cemetery

Prairie Haven Memorial Park
2201 E. Stanolind
Hobbs, NM  88240

Memorial Contributions

NorthGate Free Will Baptist Bldg. Fund
7801 N. Grimes
Hobbs, NM  88242