Evelyn Estella (Judah) Faulkenburry October 30, 1925 ~ August 18, 2022 (age 96)

Obituary

Funeral Services for Evelyn “Bunch” Faulkenburry, 96, of Clovis, NM will be held at 10:00 AM, Tues., Aug. 23,2022 in the Wheeler Mortuary Chapel with Michael Harmon officiating. Burial will follow in the Causey Cemetery with Ronnie Montague, Bob Bennett, Nick Paiz, Shaun Paiz, Chad Davis and Clint Montague serving as pallbearers. Dudley Cash, John Donohew, Jim Gammon, Melburn Johnston, Kenneth Jones, Bob Norris and Kenneth Whitecotton will serve as honorary pallbearers. Those desiring to make memorial contributions may send them to In Search of The Lord’s Way, P.O. Box 371, Edmond, OK 73083 or the New Mexico Christian Children’s Home, 1356 NM 236, Portales, NM 88130.

Evelyn “Bunch” Faulkenburry, passed away on Aug. 18, 2022 at the Farwell Care and Rehab Center. She was born Evelyn Estella Judah in Causey, NM on October 30, 1925, the second of four children of Floyd G. and Nola Lee Judah. She attended all twelve years of school at Causey, graduating in 1943 as Salutatorian of her class. After a year of college at Portales, she married her soldier sweetheart, S. M. “Sarge” Faulkenburry on June 14, 1944. They shared sixty years together through good times and hard times. Through the War years they were apart for some months, but she followed him to stateside Army bases in California and Illinois. After the War, they settled in Clovis, where their only son was born. Three years later while farming west of Portales, a daughter was born, and then another five years after moving to Irving, TX the birth of their youngest daughter completed the family.

Bunch’s great loves were God and her family. She gave of herself by being a dedicated helpmate to her husband, and a loving, caring mother and grandmother to her children and grandchildren. She taught Bible Class for many years, touching for eternity the lives of numerous dozens of young children in the Church of Christ of the various places they lived and worked. She gave of herself by sewing for others, baking countless cakes for many occasions, and contributing her time, especially for specific needs. She enjoyed sewing and needlecrafts of all kinds and used her talents keeping herself busy always until her fingers would no longer cooperate.

Bunch worked alongside Sarge renovating six large older houses while residing in them at the same time. Bunch worked as the school secretary for several years while they lived in Grandview, TX.

Sarge and Bunch returned to New Mexico in 1978, to make their home in Clovis and were members of 16th and Pile Church of Christ.

Bunch is preceded in death by her parents; her husband, S. M. Faulkenburry on Aug. 22, 2004; her sisters, Iona Mae Hartin and Marjorie Inez McKinney.

Survivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Donald R. and Tessie Faulkenburry of Anchorage, AK; two daughters and sons-in-law, Carol Ann and Howard Pipes of Clovis and Linda Fay and Robert Toney of Mechanicsville, VA; one brother, F. G. (Rose) Judah of Benson, AZ; four granddaughters, Kristy Pipes of Clovis, Kathy (Allen) McKinney of Pittsburg, KS, Kimberly (Art) Lerma of El Paso, TX and Danielle (Mat) Porter of Wahiawa, HI; three grandsons, Donald Ray (Debbie) Faulkenburry, Jr., John Christopher Faulkenburry and Caleb (Kaylyn) Paynter of Mechanicsville, VA; great-grandchildren, Malaré McKinney, Emmalyn McKinney, Ryan McKinney, Daven Porter, Eden Porter, Miranda Lerma, Heather Faulkenburry, Ashley Faulkenburry and Cole Paynter; and great-great-granddaughter, Cayla. Additional survivors include step-grandchildren and step-great-grandchildren.

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