Teddy M. Short

Brother Teddy M. Short, 81, of Andrews passed away on Friday, June 28, 2019, in Odessa.

Family and friends gathered to celebrate his life on Tuesday, July 2, 2019, at Grace Baptist Church in Andrews. Interment followed in the Andrews North Cemetery. The family received friends on Monday at McNett Funeral Home. Please visit www.mcnettfuneralhome.com for obituary information, visitation and service details, and family pictures or videos.

Teddy was born on Jan. 16, 1938, in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma to Roy Lee Short and Lou Ella Shaffer. He attended elementary school in Wink, Texas and graduated from Jayton High School in 1957, where he was known to be a great football player for the Jayton Jaybirds. He married Judy Lou Hawkins on March 3, 1959, in Jayton. He worked as a roughneck in the oilfields in his earlier years and enjoyed playing golf. He also worked at Lubbock Power & Light and Union 76 as a field operator in Jal, New Mexico. They owned and operated Panther School Store Hamburger Place in Jal from 1966 through 1981. He went on an International Christian Crusade in January 1979 to Nicaragua and surrendered to the ministry on March 19, 1979. He was the pastor at Maljamar Baptist Church in Maljamar, New Mexico from 1979 until 1981, McKinney Acres Baptist Church in Andrews from 1981 until 1993, Greenfield Acres Baptist Church in Odessa from 1993 until 1998, First Baptist Church in Jal in 1999 and Grace Baptist Church in Andrews from 2000 until 2009. He enjoyed riding his Honda Goldwing motorcycle, the Dallas Cowboys, the Jayton Jaybirds, and tinkering in his shop. But most of all, he enjoyed ministering to many people with his faithful wife, Judy, beside him the entire time. He was a member of Grace Baptist Church in Andrews. He was preceded in death by his parents, an infant son, three brothers and two sisters.

Teddy is survived by his loving wife, Judy Short of Andrews; a daughter, Tina Marie Mosley of Andrews; twin sons, Terry Max Short and wife, Summer, of Eunice, New Mexico, and Teddy Rex Short of Arkansas; 11 grandchildren, several great grandchildren and 1 great-great grandchild.

Memorials may be sent to the Alzheimer’s Association at https://www.alz.org/