Inez Newton Grant, age 102, died Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005, at a local nursing home after a brief illness.Born Aug. 29, 1903, at Levita, Texas, she was the secondchild of Joseph Norwood Newton and Nettie Mae Coleman. She married Haskell Grant Aug. 28, 1935, in Lubbock.She was a member of the First Baptist Church.A life-long learner, she earned Bachelors and Masters degrees from Texas Tech University. She was a teacher for 42 years having taught at Howard County schools including Knott, Moore, and Fairview and South Ward and North Ward in Big Spring. Afterher family moved to a farm near Ropesville in 1947, she taught in the Ropesville schools.With the opening of South Plains College at Levelland in 1958, she became an instructor and head of the English department developing the curriculum in that discipline.She continued in that position until her retirement in 1972.Her support of and dedication to education were recognized whenshe received the Minnie Stevens Piper Professor award in 1960.She was aPast Worthy Matron of the Order of Eastern Star No. 880 in Ropesville.Her family returned to Big Spring in 1973 and she filled the later years of her life with reading, gardening, and cooking while maintaining an independent existence until very near the end of her life.She was preceded in death by her husband, Haskell Grant, on Jan. 19, 1998; her parents; two brothers and two sisters.She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Gary and Carolejean Grant of Big Spring; a granddaughter, Aricia Grant of Dallas; a brother and sister-in-law, Robert and Dora Newton of Granbury; a brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Jack and Laura Grant of Santa Fe, Texas; a sister-in-law, Inez Shivers of Big Spring; and nieces and nephews including Koila Strickland, Celia Williams, and Linda Davidson of Big Spring, Patsy Guinn, Bobby Grant, Jerry Grant, George Ryan, Camella Ryan, Jane Roland, Gregg Ryan, Cindy Kurtz, Cathy Wilson, Nelson Grant, Sue Carey, Ann Tackitt, Nell Arney, Robert Newton, Jr., Donna McGibboney,Joe Newton, Mack Newton, and Don Newton.The family suggests memorials be made to South Plains Scholarship Fund,1401 S. College Ave., Levelland, TX 79336, or Howard College Scholarship Fund, 1001 Birdwell Lane, Big Spring, TX 79720.Funeral services will be held at 10:00 AM Saturday, September 10, 2005 at the Nalley-Pickle & Welch Rosewood Chapel Big Spring with Rev. Dennis Teeters, pastor of First Baptist Church, officiating. Interment will follow at Trinity Memorial Park.The family will receive friends from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM Friday at the funeral home.Arrangements under the direction of Nalley-Pickle & Welch Funeral Home & Crematory of Big Spring. Online condolences can be made at: www.npwelch.com,
