Grant Culver, Sr.

Funeral services for Grant Culver Sr. of Hobbs will be at 1:00 p.m. Friday, December 4, 2009, at Hobbs First Assembly of God, 800 W. Bender Blvd., Hobbs, New Mexico. Pastor Johnny Lee assisted by Brother Gerald Anderson and Orville Cottrell, son-in-law, will officiate.

Burial will take place following the service at Prairie Haven Memorial Park Cemetery.

Visitation will be Thursday from 8 a.m. - 7 p.m. with the family in attendance at Chapel of Hope from 5 - 7 p.m.

Culver, 79, died December 1, 2009 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He was born January 19, 1930, in Kamay, Texas.

He married Iva Jean Barber Culver on March 7, 1953, in Eunice.

Mr. Culver served in the U.S. Army during the Korean conflict. He was the owner of the Grants Motor Company for 14 years before he started his two businesses: Interstate Battery and OK Auto Sales. Grant was working in both places until the time of his death. Interstate Batteries was started in 1976. Grant loved his family, life and especially his grand and great-grandchildren. He was a member of Trinity Free Holiness Church.

Survivors include his wife of the home, Iva Jean Culver; two sons, Grant Culver Jr. and wife Sheryl of Hobbs, and Darryl Culver and wife Becky of Hobbs; three daughters, Karen Smith of Hobbs, Becky Cottrell and husband Orville of Stratford, Oklahoma, and Cindy Campbell and husband Marcus of Sabastopol, Mississippi; three brothers, Bill Culver and wife Jaynell of Nadine, New Mexico, James Culver and wife Barbara of Seminole, Texas, and Curtis Gilbert and wife Dee of Fort Worth, Texas; one sister, Sylvia Darter and husband Tommy, Sr. of Sachse, Texas; 19 grandchildren, 31 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his parents, Tom and Ruby Culver.

Visitation

Chapel of Hope
3321 N. Dal Paso
Hobbs, NM  88240
Thursday, December 3, 2009
8 a.m. 7 p.m. Thursday

Service

Funeral Service

Hobbs First AssemblyHav
800 W. Bender Blvd.
Hobbs, NM  88240
Friday, December 4, 2009
1:00 p.m. Friday

Cemetery

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