Services will be 1:00 P.M. on Friday, March 16, 2007 at First Baptist Church in Claude, with, Rev. Jess Little, pastor, and Rev. Jim Brown, pastor of Monterrey Baptist in Lubbock, officiating. Burial will be at Dreamland Cemetery of Canyon. Not available for viewing. Billie Louise Turner Hales was born on August 11, 1923 to Chester Hix Turner and Ida Ophelia Mays Turner in Jones County, Texas. She graduated from Amarillo High School in 1942. Billie married Joe Vern Hales on March 25, 1942. Her life revolved around family and home as the wife of a well-known Panhandle Cattleman. She and her husband raised prize-winning Holstein and Angus cattle and lived most of their lives near Canyon and Claude. She also prided herself on her work as a Red Cross volunteer in World War II, an assistant for the VFW office, retail sales, as the executive secretary for Bell Helicopter, and in the Armstrong County Clerk"s office. She was a forty-three year member of Claude First Baptist Church. Her love of family and home were widely recognized by friends and neighbors. Her artistic talents were seen in the way she furnished her home, sewed and painted. She always created beautiful gardens at the places she lived as a wife and mother. She was preceded in death by one daughter, Sherry Lynn Hales Welch in 1980 and her husband in 1988. Survivors include her two daughters, Jean Wood and husband, Harry of Claude, and Peggy Sue Meathenia of Fischer; son, Chester Hales and wife, Linda of Claude; son-in-law, Tex Welch of Amarillo; six grandchildren, Robin Meathenia, Denise O"Neill, Melissa Tyree, Cory Hales, Tiffany Blandford, and Leslie Hales; five great grandchildren, Heather James, Samantha Tyree, Jeffrey Tyree, Justin O"Neill, and Jayden Blandford; two sisters, Mary Stovall and husband, Buddy of Kress, and Yvonne Savage of Kress; and one brother, Mike Turner of Tulia.