Reba Savoie

Graveside services are scheduled at 2:00 p.m. Thursday, March 12, at Twin Oaks Memorial Park for Reba Lois Savoie, of Roswell, New Mexico.

Mrs. Savoie, 88, died Monday, March 9, 2015 at Casa Maria Nursing Center in Roswell.

Fr. Joseph Pacquing will officiate at the services.

Visitation will be at Terpening & Son Mortuary Wednesday beginning at 10:00 a.m.

Reba was born August 27, 1926 in Shady Point, Oklahoma; the daughter of Calvin Lester Marshall and Leara Frances (Wyatt) Marshall. She was a longtime Artesia resident before moving to Roswell.

On December 20, 1944 she was married to John H. Savoie in Camp Chanks, NY. He preceded her in death December 4, 2003. She was also preceded in death by her parents, brother Bobby Marshall, and a nephew Guy Mithcell.

Reba earned her degree in Education at Eastern N.M. University in Portales in 1977. She was a High School Teacher in Hagerman, N.M., and also taught in Lake Arthur, and Artesia. She worked many other jobs in helping support her family including helping her husband at Artesia Wrecking Company and at the A.T. & S.F. Railway Company. Reba was a former member of St. Anthony's Catholic Church and a current member of Assumption Catholic Church in Roswell. She also belonged to the Artesia Elks Lodge, American Red Cross, and the Senior Citizen Circle in Roswell.

Survivors include her daughter Marion Frances Savoie Northcutt and husband Jim of Roswell; granddaughter Marion Janette Busby Petersen and husband Cory of Roswell; great-grandsons Matthew D. Arriaga and Joshua Tyler Petersen both of Roswell; sisters Elsa Hayes of Carlsbad, N.M., Pat Barnes and husband Jon of Carlsbad, and Katherine Shelton and husband Eric of Albuquerque, N.M.; sister-in-law Carol Marshall of Brawley, California; and several nieces and nephews including Johnny Lester and wife Jane of Carlsbad, Steve Lester and wife Sarah of Grand Junction, CO., and Cindy Holguin and Shelley Cano.

Visitation

Terpening Son Mortuary
611 W. Grand Ave.
Artesia, NM  88210
Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Beginning at 10:00 a.m.

Service

Graveside

Twin Oaks Memorial Park
59 Lake Arthur Highway
Artesia, NM  88210
Thursday, March 12, 2015
2:00 p.m.

Cemetery

Twin Oaks Memorial Park
59 Lake Arthur Highway
Artesia, NM  88210