NONA LENNON MITCHELL, 78, passed away April 15,
2008, with burial in Mt. Zion Cemetery near Ranger,
TX. She attended Ranger High School as a Junior in
1946.
Nona was born April 15, 1930 to Charles and Lavada
(McGowen) Lennon in Olton, TX. She spent her child-
hood in Olton, Frankel, and Ranger. She graduated
from Breckenridge High School and later married Dave
Mitchell in Ranger in September of 1947. They lived
in Breckenridge and moved to Jal, NM, in 1961 and later
to Aspermont in 1967 and have been there ever since.
Nona taught Sunday school at the First Baptist Church
for many years and helped head the Girls in Action.
She was a great Bible scholar and had a wonderful Bible
library at her house. Nona loved to draw and was a
wonderful artist. She also liked to crochet and work
in the yard. She did her share of seamstress work and
loved her cats and horses. She is fondly remembered
for her baking. She loved life, the Lord and her family
very much.
She is preceded in death by her parents and her husband
who died in 2004.
She is survived by her children, Jimmy Dave and wife
Artie Mitchell, Shirley Ann and husband Jimmy Gaddis,
and Ricky Joe Mitchell, grandchildren, Jimmy Heath
Mitchell and Shellby Lynn Gaddis, great-grandchildren,
Colton, Caegan, Cylar and M'Caidyn Mitchell.