Funeral services for Orene Onstott, 83, of Portales, will be at 2:00 PM, Wed., June 28, 2017 at the Third Kilgore Church of Christ with Johnny Lieb officiating. Burial will follow in the Portales Cemetery with Kevin Breshears, Craig Breshears, Randy Burnett, Delbert Rector, Greg Gossett and Jess Gossett serving as pallbearers. All of her church family will be honorary pallbearers.
Orene Pearl Onstott was born Jan.. 29, 1934 in Anadarko, OK to the home of Georgie (Gray) and Frank James Barbee, and died early on the morning of June 26, 2017 in Portales, NM. The Barbee family moved to a homestead in the Bethel Community in 1943. On Oct. 13, 1951 in Portales, she was married to J. W. “Wayne” Onstott. They first made their home in Portales, but since Mr. Onstott was employed with the phone company, they were soon transferred to Farmington. In 1963 they moved to Albuquerque, and then to Raton in 1971. In 1978, they made their last transfer to Santa Fe, before his retirement in 1983. At that time, they returned to Portales to live the remainder of their lives. That same year, they purchased the College Cleaners, which they operated for two years.
Mrs. Onstott was an excellent homemaker and cook. She enjoyed sewing and working in her yard. She was a faithful member of the Third and Kilgore Church of Christ, and never missed Sunday services until her health prevented her in recent months.
She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Doyle and Cindi Onstott of Portales; another daughter-in-law, Kathy (Mrs. Garry) Onstott of Santa Fe, NM; five grandchildren, Jolene Onstott, La-Tressa Koenig, Jarred Onstott, and Daniel and Jason Larranaga; a great-granddaughter, Shelby Lynn Tafoya, a brother, Lester Barbee of Ojai, CA; and two sisters, Mary (Richard) Standifer of Canyon, TX and Trelma Elliott of Moriarty, NM. She was preceded in death by her parents, seven brothers, Troy, A. P., Ray, Roy, Chester, Clifton and Glen Barbee, a sister, Evelyn Johnson, a grandson, Greg Onstott who died Nov. 10, 1994, a son, Garry Onstott who died Jan. 6, 2014, and by her beloved husband, Wayne, who died Jan. 31, 2002, after more than 50 years of marriage.
