Arlene Mae Webster of Clayton, New Mexico

May 29, 1936 – April 21, 2025

Arlene Mae (Vavra) Webster, age 88, died on Monday, April 21, 2025, in Clayton, New Mexico.

Funeral services will be held at 1:00 PM on Thursday, April 24, 2025, at the Clayton Methodist Church in Clayton, New Mexico with Pastor Kenneth W. Tidmore, pastor officiating. Burial will follow in the Clayton Memorial Cemetery by Hass Funeral Directors of Clayton.

Arlene was born on May 29, 1936, in Newman Grove, Nebraska to Rudolph and Gladys Vavra. She was the youngest of three girls. Arlene was a member of the First United Methodist Church in Newman Grove, Nebraska. After she graduated from High School in 1953, she worked in Welburn Drug Store for three years and then moved to Ben, Oregon with a friend and worked at Brooks Scanlon Lumber Mills as a Bookkeeper. There she met Forrest “Pete” Webster, and they were married on February 14, 1959. Three years later, they moved back to Clayton, New Mexico where Pete was from. Together they had one son, Larry and two daughters, Sondra and Renee. Arlene worked in the High School Cafeteria for 25 years and then retired. As her license plate indicated, she adored her grandkids. But not nearly as much as they adored her! Their memories with her are numerous and wonderful and something they will treasure forever. “Grams” will be greatly missed but remembered and loved forever; she was a huge part of their lives, as they were hers. She was preceded in death by her husband in 1992, her parents, her two sisters, Marvelyn and Darolyn and by her daughter, Renee in 2022.

SURVIVORS:

DAUGHTER: Sondra Martinez and her husband Roger of Clayton, New Mexico.

SON: Larry Webster and his wife Debbie of Colorado.

SON-IN-LAW: Tom Fong of Clayton, New Mexico.

6 GRANDCHILDREN: Malaqui Gaytan and her husband Gabe of Eunice, New Mexico, Paige Goldstein and her husband Alex of Austin, Texas, Brianna Fong of Denver, Colorado, Derek Webster and his wife Leticia of Colorado, Steven Valdez and his wife Brandy of Las Cruces, New Mexico and Nicholas Valdez and his wife Mariah of Clayton, New Mexico.

7 GREAT-GRANDKIDS: Beowolf Webster, Winter Webster, Gabby Mae Gaytan, Benson Gaytan, Emerson Goldstein, Nicholas Valdez, Jr., Jordan Turjillo and Ashlynn Trujillo.

And a Very Good Friend: Joy Montoya.

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