Marion Claude Hightower of Hobbs, Lea County, New Mexico was born on October 4, 1925 in Albany, Shackelford County, Texas United States to Marion Claude Hightower Sr and Zella Mae Tankersley Hightower. He had a sibling Bobbe Edwin Hightower. Marion Hightower died at age 82 years old on July 16, 2008 in Hobbs, Lea County, NM, and was buried on July 19, 2008 at Prairie Haven Cemetery 2201 E. Stanolind, in Hobbs.