Donald Clarke Todd, Sterling


In 1930 Clinton County, Missouri, Marion C. Todd is a mail carrier, 34, born inKansas, Mary 28 Missouri, with Donald 2 and Paul Ross Todd eleen months.

In 1940 Donald "E." Todd is 12, in Clay County, Missouri with Marion C. 48, a post office clerk, and Mary F. 42. Paul R. is 11.

May 11, 1969 Colorado Springs "Funeral services will be held at the Law drawing room at 2 p. m. Tuesday for Mrs. Mary F. Todd of 1230 N. Wahsatch Ave., who died in Canyon, Texas, last Thursday. Dr. LeRoy Arend will officíate. Burial arrangements are pending. Mrs. Todd, who was a house-wife, was affiliated with the First United Methodist Church. Surviving are her husband, Marion C. Todd of Colorado Springs; two sons, Donald of Canyon, and Paul of Lawrence, Kansas; three brothers. Roy Dickerson of Gallatin, Mo., W. L. Dickerson of Kersey, Colo, and Dwight Dickerson of Whittier."

In 1900 Daviess County, Missouri, Charles Dickerson is 42, Nancy J. 43, James O. 2, Walter V. 17, Roy 14, Homer 11, Nannie M. 6, MARY 2, and WSesley nine months.

Charles Wesley Dickerson 1857-1925 is buried in Daviess County # 74547267 - one tree sayig he died in Lincoln County, Colorado..
One wife Nancy Jane (Auldridge) Dickerson 1856-1902 is buried there # 74547301.


In 1915 C.W. is in Osborne County, Kansas, 57, with Edith 37, William 10, Ditzler 9, Chas C> 6, Catherine 2, an Mary 17.
Charles' next wife Edith 1879-1935 is buried in Denver # 32208268.

(William L. Dickerson 1904-1975 is buried in Weld County, Colorado # 45666063.)
Marion Conley Todd, born August 24, 1892 at Columbus, Kansas to Joseph Todd and Mary Isabelle Potter, died in Amarillo, Texas on October 24, 1975, to be buried in Evergreen Shrine, Colorado Springs.

"Funeral services for Marion C. Todd, 83, of 1708 9th Ave. will be at 11:30 am Tuesday at Evergreen Shrine of Rest Mausoleum in Colorado Springs. Mr Todd died Friday morning in High Plains Baptist Hospital in Amarillo. He was born Aug 24. 1892 in Columbus, Kan., and retired from the Kansas City, Missouri post office in 1952. He lived in Colorado Springs for 18 years before moving to Canyon to live with a son, Dr. Donald Todd.
Mr. Todd was married in 192? to Mary Dickerson She died in 19??. He had been a member of the First United Methodist Church of Colorado Springs. He was a veteran of World War I. Survivors include Dr. Todd of Canyon, and another son, Paul R. of Omaha, Nebraska, a brother. Joseph C. of San Leandro California, eight grandchildren and one greatgrandchild"

Anna F. Oliver, 87, of Amarillo died Sunday, Jan. 17, 2010.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in Griggs-Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors Pioneer Chapel, 5400 S. Bell St., with Doyle Oliver, chaplain of Odyssey Hospice, officiating. Burial will be in Llano Cemetery.

Anna was born Feb. 23, 1922, in Vienna, Austria, to Josef and Therese Buber. She came to America in 1947 as a war bride. She proudly became a U.S. citizen in 1980.
Anna worked her whole life, both in and out of the home. Over the years she battled cancer six times.
She found happiness with an old friend, K.D. White, with whom she resided for the last 10 years. Anna and K.D. have taken care of each other. She had a difficult life with many challenges and was fortunate to have found happiness in the last years of her life. Anna was active and independent until the last three weeks of her life.
She was preceded in death by two grandchildren and a daughter, Ursula Varga.
Survivors include two daughters, Marilyn Todd and husband Dr. Donald Todd of Murfreesboro, Tenn., and Nancy Penland of Lubbock; a son, Mark Penland and wife Deborah of Dennison; 10 grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.

May 26, 1976 Amarillo, Texas "On June ?6 Marilynn Ann Penland and Dr Donald Clarke Todd will exchange vows in the home of the Rev. and Mrs. Marion C. Todd. Dr. Todd is associate professor of music at West Texas State University and is concertmaster of the Amarillo Symphony. "

Donald C. 'Don' Todd, 90, was called home to be with the Lord on Monday, January 15, 2018 in Sterling, Colorado. Viewing will be held from 3-6 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 18 at Chaney-Reager Funeral Home. A funeral service will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, Jan. 19 at Chaney-Reager Funeral Home with Pastor Justin Steimer officiating. Interment to follow at Riverside cemetery.

Born in Turney, Missouri on Sept. 17, 1927, Todd's parents recognized his musical skill early in his life. He and his brother played violin on the weekly radio program Kansas City Kiddies Revue. Todd was the youngest musician hired by the Kansas City Philharmonic Orchestra and later helped First Daughter Margaret Truman prepare for her singing debut.
He earned bachelors and masters degrees from Northwestern University and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. He played in symphonies and orchestras in Kansas City, Oklahoma City, Indianapolis, Amarillo, the Utah Symphony, Allen (Texas) and Richardson (Texas), serving as concertmaster in Allen and Amarillo. He taught at Shenandoah Conservatory of Music in Dayton, Va.; Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, Ill.; West Texas State University in Canyon and spent 20 years teaching orchestra in the Dallas schools until his retirement in 2002. He also played first violin in the Dallas-based Metropolitan String Quartet.
He continued to record into his eighties. For the past 15 years, he played hymns at Barfield Baptist Church in Murfreesboro, Tenn. to the delight of the congregation. He was known for his political activism in Rutherford County, Tenn., where he scrutinized financial records and was a frequent speaker about government waste.
He was also fiercely competitive in backyard games of croquet and corn hole. He also enjoyed many seasons at the cabin he designed and built in Divide, Colorado and many hours hiking in the nearby woods. He instilled in his two daughters a love of Colorado and the outdoors and a spirit of adventure.
He is survived by wife of 42 years, Marilynn; daughters, Olivia (Jesse Courtney) and Nancy Todd; granddaughters, Emma, Anna and Ella Courtney and many nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by daughter, Augusta Elise Todd; parents, Marion and Mary Todd, and brother, Paul.

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