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Earwood, Michelle

Michelle Elaine Graham Earwood, 29, of Clovis, died Sunday, Sept. 12, 2004, at Plains Regional Medical Center in Clovis.

She was born on March 1, 1975, in Vietnam.

She grew up in Vernal, Utah and Rangely, Colo., where she graduated from high school and college at Colorado Northwestern Community College at the age of 16. She married Jessie Earwood on Sept. 19, 1995, in Clovis. She was a homemaker. She had a bachelor's degree in cultural anthropology and was working on a master's degree at Eastern New Mexico University. Family members said she loved the Lord of the Rings, reading, her family and children.

She was preceded in death by her mother, Elaine Graham.

Survivors include her husband; two sons, Logan and Duncan Earwood, both of Clovis; two daughters, Sharlie and Danell Earwood, both of Clovis; her father, Roger Graham of Jenson, Utah; three sisters, Dion Jordan of Durango, Colo., Monique Lanser of Tulsa, Okla., and Linzy Sommers of Grand Junction, Colo.; her grandparents, Tommy and Elsie Combs of Grand Junction, Colo.; an aunt, Patti Turner (and husband, Doug) of Loveland, Colo.; her mother and father-in-law, Larry and Sandy Earwood of Portales; and a cousin-in-law, Vernon Earwood of Clovis.

Cremation has taken place.

Arrangements are by Muffley Funeral Home of Clovis.