Mary Lillian McFarlin    FEBRUARY 2005

Odessa Mary Lillian McFarlin, 75, of Odessa, was born Aug. 9, 1929, in San Miguel County, N.M., to Catalino and Anastacia Trujillo.
She was married to Bennie Joe McFarlin in 1953 in Las Vegas, N.M.
As a young woman, she worked as a LVN at New Mexico State hospital and later as an operating room nurse in Lovington, N.M., at Lee County Hospital.
Mary and Ben McFarlin moved to Odessa in 1971, where Mary reentered college and became a dietician working in various nursing homes in the Odessa area. She was also a member of the First Church of the Nazarene.
She was preceded in death by her parents; and her daughter, Debra Ann McFarlin.
She is survived by her husband of 51 and a half years, Bennie Joe McFarlin of Odessa; her daughters, Edith Jennifer Kinney and husband David of Whitharral and Gloria McFarlin Baumstimler and husband Danny of Odessa; her sisters, Carmen Ortiz of Los Animos, Colo., and Lena Herrera and husband Ben of Las Vegas, N.M.; her brothers, Michael Trujillo and wife Lila of Aspen, Colo., Donnie Trujillo and wife Connie and Benito Trujillo, both of Commerce City, Colo., and Seferino “T.J.” Trujillo and wife Cora of Fountain, Colo.; five grandchildren, Lisa Nuanez, Larry W. Robinett Jr. and wife Vicky, Champion Baumstimler and wife Connie, Madison Baumstimler and Ben Baumstimler; and six great-grandchildren, Claire, Thomas, David, Heather, Mikayla and Champion.
Memorial services will be at 2 p.m. Monday, Feb. 14, 2005, at Odessa First Church of the Nazarene with the Rev. Terry G. Pierce officiating.
She will be loved forever and missed by all who knew her.