EIGHTH GENERATION

3008. Delbert Clarence Stanhope⁽¹²⁴⁵⁾ was born on 26 Nov 1914 in Dora, North Dakota.^{(1246) (333)} He died on 27 Jun 1990 in Odessa, Ector Co., Texas.^{(1247) (333)}

He was married to Ella Faye Duckworth on 22 Oct 1938 in Eddy Co., New Mexico.^{(1248) (1249)} Ella Faye Duckworth ⁽¹²⁵⁰⁾ was born on 9 Dec 1919 in McAlester, Pittsburg Co., Oklahoma. ⁽¹⁹⁰⁾ She died on 20 Feb 1962 in Midland, Midland Co., Texas.⁽¹⁹⁰⁾ Delbert Clarence Stanhope and Ella Faye Duckworth had the following children:

4460 i. Oneta Stanhope.
4461 ii. Jeanett Stanhope.
4462 iii. Gulenda Stanhope.

He was married to Vernice McElyea on 24 Jul 1973 in Ector Co., Texas.⁽¹²⁵¹⁾ Vernice McElyea ⁽¹²⁵²⁾ was born on 2 Sep 1917 in Snyder, Scurry Co., Texas. ^(1253)(190) She died on 6 Nov 2004 in Odessa, Ector Co., Texas.⁽³³³⁾ Vernice McElyea Stanhope, 87, of Odessa, died Saturday, Nov. 6, 2004.
Services will be at 3 p.m. today at Sherwood Church of Christ. Burial w ill be at Sunset Memorial Gardens. She was born in Snyder. SURVIVORS: S on, David Smith of Plano; daughters, Elizabeth Ann Noble and Raye Vern B ell, both of Odessa; stepdaughters, Jeanett Cook, Oneta Schurbon and Gu lenda Christopher of Dallas and Manvel; sisters, Violet Walker of Odess a and Wanda Mitchell of Josephine; brothers, Calvin McElyea of Selma an d Randy McElyea of Odessa; 29 grandchildren; 41 great-grandchildren; an d 15 great-great-grandchildren.
Odessa American, Odessa, Texas, 11 November 2004.