Jack Waide

Funeral Services for Jack F Waide, 86 of Roswell will be held at 3pm, Tues., Jan. 17, 2012 at Anderson Bethany Funeral Home, with Pastor David Bronson of Artesia, NM officiating. Interment will follow at South Park Cemetery. Jack passed away Thurs., Jan. 12, 2012. Visitation will be Mon., Jan. 16, 2012 at Anderson Bethany Funeral Home from 5pm-7pm where the family will receive friends. A reception will follow the Interment at the family home. Jack was born Jan. 25, 1925 into a pioneering Texas ranch family. He and his parents, James Franklin Waide and Cora Belle Lewis lived on farms and ranches throughout southeastern New Mexico. Jack grew up and continued breaking horses, herding cows, and running ranches. He became a New Mexican and married Ruth Maxine Wilson on February 12, 1941. Next to being a husband, father, grandfather and great grandfather, uncle, and friend, he loved being a cowboy and raising good horses. He spent nearly a quarter of a century running the Double O Bar Ranch, southwest of Roswell, where he raised his four children. His love of good horses, owning and breeding top, working, and race horses was a lifelong interest. He bought a small farm in the Dexter-Hagerman area in the 1970’s and founded, Irrigation along with his son, Stanley; the business was later sold to his grandson, Cliff. He had a wide range of hobbies that included building saddles. He designed what became known as the “Wade Tree” for the standard saddle company of Vernal, Utah. His passion was always making useful things from trailers and starting gates. He was always in the pursuit of improving the health of his livestock, and attended a vet clinic in Colorado, even being innovative by making a crutch cast for a baby colt with a broken leg. He had a great love of wildlife and enjoyed hunting. What you hear the most about Jack is, “He was a good man.” Those left to cherish Jack’s memory are, son, Tim David Waide of Texas; daughter, Mary Waide Beauchemin of Roswell; son, Steve Waide and his wife, Dianna of Albuquerque; son, Stanley Waide and his wife, Kay of Wichita Falls; grandson, Cliff Waide and his wife, Maryann of Hagerman; granddaughter, Joy Christine Moore and her husband, Kevin of Roswell; grandson, John Mark Waide and his wife, Faith of Spokane, WA; great grandson, Michael Waide of Hagerman; great granddaughter, Angela Waide of Hagerman; great granddaughter, Anna Moore of Roswell; and numerous nieces and nephews. Preceding Jack in death is wife, Ruth Maxine Wilson Waide; father, James Franklin Waide; mother, Cora Belle Lewis Waide; brother, C.B. Waide; and sister, Pearl Waide Haines. Serving as pallbearers are, James Waide, Ardist Allen, CB Waide, Bobby Brewer, Don Armstrong, Martin DeLaRosa, and Henry DeLaRosa. Please take a moment to share your thoughts and memories in the online register book at andersonbethany.com. Arrangements are under the direction of Anderson Bethany Funeral Home & Crematory.

Jack Waide

January 25, 1925 - January 12, 2012