Mattie Young

Services are scheduled at 10:00 a.m. Saturday, July 21 at Hermosa Drive Church of Christ for former area resident Mattie Young of Bryan, Texas. PMattie went home with her Lord Jesus Christ in Bryan, Texas on July 12, 2007. PJimmy Derrick and Bob Mayberry will officiate at the services with interment at the Hagerman Cemetery in Hagerman, N.M. PMattie Clementine Derrick was born in Lake Arthur, New Mexico on July 9, 1913 to Thelma America Walker and Robert Thomas Derrick. She accepted Jesus Christ as her Savior and was baptized as a teenager in Hagerman, New Mexico in an irrigation canal. PMattie attended Lake Arthur High School where she excelled in basketball. She married Roy Hammons on November 23, 1931 in Roswell, New Mexico. Later in life she married Clyde Rasor on April 18, 1974. Mattie had a long career as a business woman in retail selling milk, dresses, makeup and silverware door-to-door. She is best known in Artesia for her furniture store eventually specializing in baby furniture and accessories. Most importantly Mattie loved, fed, and nurtured all of her children, grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and great-great-grandchildren. All family was always of great importance in her life. PSurvivors include a son and daughter-in-law, Roy and Louise Hammons of Bryan, Texas; a daughter, Gwen Sweatt of Belton, Texas; a sister Ola Bea Thompson of Roswell, N.M.; granddaughter and grandson-in-law, Sandra and Bill Trainor of College Station, Texas; granddaughter, Beverly Sweatt of Artesia; grandsons and granddaughters-in-Iaw, Tom and Lorrie Hammons of Carrolton, Texas and Paul and Laura Hammons of Bryan, Texas; great-grandchildren, Sandi Trainor Moore, Chelsea Trainor, Billy Trainor, Scott Hammons, Julie Hammons, and Alan Hammons; great-great grandchildren Trace and Brayden Moore; and one special friend and namesake Mattie McCombs of Artesia. Mattie is preceded in death by her husbands, Roy Hammons and Clyde Rasor; her brothers, Millard, Curly, Slick, Sam and Buddy Derrick; her sister, Laura Heath; and her parents, Tom and Maggie Derrick.
Pallbearers will be Tom Hammons, Paul Hammons, Bill Trainor, Billy Trainor, Lewis Derrick, and Steve Thompson. Honorary pallbearers include Scott Hammons, Billy Merritt, Bill Sweatt, and all her nephews. She will be greatly missed.