Mrs. Joan Womble, 86, longtime Hereford resident, went home to be with her Lord, and husband Benny, on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Hereford.
Services are pending.
Obituary by Hereford Heritage Funeral Home
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Joan Brashear Womble, longtime Hereford resident, died March 8 at the age of 86 after a lengthy illness.
Graveside services will be in West Park Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 11.
Her life will be celebrated at a memorial service at 3 p.m. Friday, March 11, in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church with Pastor Kyle Streun and Dr. Rodney McGlothlin, pastor of First Baptist Church, Brownwood, co-officiating. Services are under the direction of Hereford Heritage Funeral Home, 411 E 6th Street.
Born April 2, 1929 in Chattanooga, OK, to George Thomas and Mary Frances Brashear, Lora Joan Brashear was the ninth of their ten children. The Brashears settled 15 miles west of Hereford in 1930 and rode out the tough Depression years. After their house burned in 1940, they moved to Taft, where Joan graduated from high school.
At the age of 17, Joan returned to Hereford and was hired as a switchboard operator for Bell Telephone Company. Shortly after, she was introduced to pioneer son Benny Womble. Their first date was a flight over Hereford in his single-engine Luscombe airplane. They married on November 7, 1948, in Hereford.
The Wombles farmed near the Dawn community until he became a car salesman and oil jobber. They owned Womble Oil Company on South Main Street for many years before retirement.
In addition to being a devoted wife and mother, Mrs. Womble enjoyed working as the secretary at Northwest Elementary School. She possessed a fun-loving, creative and generous spirit, expressing herself through a remarkable variety of artistic projects. A gifted seamstress, Mrs. Womble sewed wedding dresses, square dance outfits, baby clothes, furniture upholstery, curtains and more. She filled her days with the people and the work she loved.
She was a longtime member of First Baptist Church, which she gifted with beautifully-embroidered sanctuary banners and Sunday School bulletin boards.
Mr. and Mrs. Womble loved square dancing and spent many happy hours on the road to dances around the Texas Panhandle and beyond.
Mrs. Womble was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, five sisters, and her husband of 66 years.
She is lovingly remembered by her daughters and sons-in-law, Gay and Ray Robertson of San Antonio and Kerrie and Jim Steiert of Hereford; her grandchildren, Crystal Robertson of San Antonio, Flynt Robertson of Boerne, USMC Staff Sgt. Sterling Robertson of Twentynine Palms, CA, and Jaime McGlothlin of Valley Mills; seven great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests gifts to Deaf Smith County 4-H, P.O. Box 953, Hereford, or the Womble Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 95, Hereford.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, March 10, 2016)
Services are pending.
Obituary by Hereford Heritage Funeral Home
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Joan Brashear Womble, longtime Hereford resident, died March 8 at the age of 86 after a lengthy illness.
Graveside services will be in West Park Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 11.
Her life will be celebrated at a memorial service at 3 p.m. Friday, March 11, in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church with Pastor Kyle Streun and Dr. Rodney McGlothlin, pastor of First Baptist Church, Brownwood, co-officiating. Services are under the direction of Hereford Heritage Funeral Home, 411 E 6th Street.
Born April 2, 1929 in Chattanooga, OK, to George Thomas and Mary Frances Brashear, Lora Joan Brashear was the ninth of their ten children. The Brashears settled 15 miles west of Hereford in 1930 and rode out the tough Depression years. After their house burned in 1940, they moved to Taft, where Joan graduated from high school.
At the age of 17, Joan returned to Hereford and was hired as a switchboard operator for Bell Telephone Company. Shortly after, she was introduced to pioneer son Benny Womble. Their first date was a flight over Hereford in his single-engine Luscombe airplane. They married on November 7, 1948, in Hereford.
The Wombles farmed near the Dawn community until he became a car salesman and oil jobber. They owned Womble Oil Company on South Main Street for many years before retirement.
In addition to being a devoted wife and mother, Mrs. Womble enjoyed working as the secretary at Northwest Elementary School. She possessed a fun-loving, creative and generous spirit, expressing herself through a remarkable variety of artistic projects. A gifted seamstress, Mrs. Womble sewed wedding dresses, square dance outfits, baby clothes, furniture upholstery, curtains and more. She filled her days with the people and the work she loved.
She was a longtime member of First Baptist Church, which she gifted with beautifully-embroidered sanctuary banners and Sunday School bulletin boards.
Mr. and Mrs. Womble loved square dancing and spent many happy hours on the road to dances around the Texas Panhandle and beyond.
Mrs. Womble was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, five sisters, and her husband of 66 years.
She is lovingly remembered by her daughters and sons-in-law, Gay and Ray Robertson of San Antonio and Kerrie and Jim Steiert of Hereford; her grandchildren, Crystal Robertson of San Antonio, Flynt Robertson of Boerne, USMC Staff Sgt. Sterling Robertson of Twentynine Palms, CA, and Jaime McGlothlin of Valley Mills; seven great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests gifts to Deaf Smith County 4-H, P.O. Box 953, Hereford, or the Womble Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 95, Hereford.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, March 10, 2016)
Mrs. Joan Womble, 86, longtime Hereford resident, went home to be with her Lord, and husband Benny, on Tuesday, March 8, 2016, in Hereford.
Services are pending.
Obituary by Hereford Heritage Funeral Home
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Joan Brashear Womble, longtime Hereford resident, died March 8 at the age of 86 after a lengthy illness.
Graveside services will be in West Park Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 11.
Her life will be celebrated at a memorial service at 3 p.m. Friday, March 11, in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church with Pastor Kyle Streun and Dr. Rodney McGlothlin, pastor of First Baptist Church, Brownwood, co-officiating. Services are under the direction of Hereford Heritage Funeral Home, 411 E 6th Street.
Born April 2, 1929 in Chattanooga, OK, to George Thomas and Mary Frances Brashear, Lora Joan Brashear was the ninth of their ten children. The Brashears settled 15 miles west of Hereford in 1930 and rode out the tough Depression years. After their house burned in 1940, they moved to Taft, where Joan graduated from high school.
At the age of 17, Joan returned to Hereford and was hired as a switchboard operator for Bell Telephone Company. Shortly after, she was introduced to pioneer son Benny Womble. Their first date was a flight over Hereford in his single-engine Luscombe airplane. They married on November 7, 1948, in Hereford.
The Wombles farmed near the Dawn community until he became a car salesman and oil jobber. They owned Womble Oil Company on South Main Street for many years before retirement.
In addition to being a devoted wife and mother, Mrs. Womble enjoyed working as the secretary at Northwest Elementary School. She possessed a fun-loving, creative and generous spirit, expressing herself through a remarkable variety of artistic projects. A gifted seamstress, Mrs. Womble sewed wedding dresses, square dance outfits, baby clothes, furniture upholstery, curtains and more. She filled her days with the people and the work she loved.
She was a longtime member of First Baptist Church, which she gifted with beautifully-embroidered sanctuary banners and Sunday School bulletin boards.
Mr. and Mrs. Womble loved square dancing and spent many happy hours on the road to dances around the Texas Panhandle and beyond.
Mrs. Womble was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, five sisters, and her husband of 66 years.
She is lovingly remembered by her daughters and sons-in-law, Gay and Ray Robertson of San Antonio and Kerrie and Jim Steiert of Hereford; her grandchildren, Crystal Robertson of San Antonio, Flynt Robertson of Boerne, USMC Staff Sgt. Sterling Robertson of Twentynine Palms, CA, and Jaime McGlothlin of Valley Mills; seven great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests gifts to Deaf Smith County 4-H, P.O. Box 953, Hereford, or the Womble Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 95, Hereford.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, March 10, 2016)
Services are pending.
Obituary by Hereford Heritage Funeral Home
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Joan Brashear Womble, longtime Hereford resident, died March 8 at the age of 86 after a lengthy illness.
Graveside services will be in West Park Cemetery at 1:30 p.m. Friday, March 11.
Her life will be celebrated at a memorial service at 3 p.m. Friday, March 11, in the sanctuary of First Baptist Church with Pastor Kyle Streun and Dr. Rodney McGlothlin, pastor of First Baptist Church, Brownwood, co-officiating. Services are under the direction of Hereford Heritage Funeral Home, 411 E 6th Street.
Born April 2, 1929 in Chattanooga, OK, to George Thomas and Mary Frances Brashear, Lora Joan Brashear was the ninth of their ten children. The Brashears settled 15 miles west of Hereford in 1930 and rode out the tough Depression years. After their house burned in 1940, they moved to Taft, where Joan graduated from high school.
At the age of 17, Joan returned to Hereford and was hired as a switchboard operator for Bell Telephone Company. Shortly after, she was introduced to pioneer son Benny Womble. Their first date was a flight over Hereford in his single-engine Luscombe airplane. They married on November 7, 1948, in Hereford.
The Wombles farmed near the Dawn community until he became a car salesman and oil jobber. They owned Womble Oil Company on South Main Street for many years before retirement.
In addition to being a devoted wife and mother, Mrs. Womble enjoyed working as the secretary at Northwest Elementary School. She possessed a fun-loving, creative and generous spirit, expressing herself through a remarkable variety of artistic projects. A gifted seamstress, Mrs. Womble sewed wedding dresses, square dance outfits, baby clothes, furniture upholstery, curtains and more. She filled her days with the people and the work she loved.
She was a longtime member of First Baptist Church, which she gifted with beautifully-embroidered sanctuary banners and Sunday School bulletin boards.
Mr. and Mrs. Womble loved square dancing and spent many happy hours on the road to dances around the Texas Panhandle and beyond.
Mrs. Womble was preceded in death by her parents, four brothers, five sisters, and her husband of 66 years.
She is lovingly remembered by her daughters and sons-in-law, Gay and Ray Robertson of San Antonio and Kerrie and Jim Steiert of Hereford; her grandchildren, Crystal Robertson of San Antonio, Flynt Robertson of Boerne, USMC Staff Sgt. Sterling Robertson of Twentynine Palms, CA, and Jaime McGlothlin of Valley Mills; seven great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests gifts to Deaf Smith County 4-H, P.O. Box 953, Hereford, or the Womble Scholarship Fund, P.O. Box 95, Hereford.
(Published in Amarillo Globe-News, March 10, 2016)
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