Sad news to report: One of Clovis’ classiest ladies has died.

Charlyne Sisler, who dressed up to go to the mailbox, spoke softly even when she was irritated at a perceived injustice and waited four years to marry her high school sweetheart when World War II broke out, passed on Sunday. She was 91.

She loved to tell stories about the early days of her native Clovis, especially riding the trains with her mother in the 1920s.

Sisler told of wandering among passengers, introducing herself to each and informing all who would listen she was from Clovis, New Mexico.

When her mother asked why she felt it so important everyone knew her hometown, she responded: “I wouldn’t want them to think I’m from Texas.”

Charlyne and Joe Sisler, a Clovis banker and a charter member of the military affairs Committee of Fifty, were married 49 years when Joe died in 1994.

They had no children.

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