From the Pampa News, August 18, 1985:

Marion Delbert Groves died August 17, 1985 at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas.  Delbert served in the Vietnam conflict as a chaplain's assistant in Korea.  He moved to Amarillo in 1970 from Pampa, and later moved to the Denton-Dallas area in 1976;  he was a resident there for nearly 10 years.  Delbert was a Baptist.

Survivors include his parents, Delbert and Minnie Groves, Pampa; a brother, Gene Groves, Lubbock; a sister, Del Davis, Pampa; and his grandmother, Mrs. Mary Stanley, Levelland