Tom Yancy, 84, loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather and retired owner of Tom Yancy Sand and Gravel Construction Co., passed away Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007.
Funeral: 9:30 a.m. Thursday in Greenwood Chapel, with Dr. Terry M. Williams and the Rev. Richard Curtis Yancy, grandson, officiating. Entombment: Greenwood Mausoleum. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Greenwood Funeral Home.
Memorials: The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, a donation be made to a heart disease foundation or diabetes association of your choice.
Tom was born Jan. 24, 1923, in Santa Anna, the son of Charlie Franklin and Virgie Bledsoe Yancy. He lived in Santa Anna through all his youth. In 1942, he met and fell in love with
Violette Ann Keller, a native of Mountain View, Okla., who was living in Tulare, Calif. After a two-week whirlwind courtship, they were married Aug. 26, 1942, and had been married for 63 1/2 years in February 2006 when she passed on to be with the Lord. Tom and Vi resided in California for a few years but then moved to Santa Anna in 1948. In 1950, they moved to Benbrook. He was a self-employed dump truck driver working for H.C. "Babe" Bryant. As time went by, he bought his own equipment and became Tom Yancy Sand and Gravel Co. He helped build and construct many of
the Fort Worth city streets in the 1950s. He constructed parking lots for various west side businesses in the area. The Fort Worth Water Department and federal contracts, which he was awarded for replacing the cables on the floodgates on various Texas lakes, were some of his later endeavors before retiring.
His family was charter members of the now-defunct Benbrook Saddle Club in the mid-1960s.
Survivors: Son, Tom Richard Yancy and wife, Mary, of Burleson; daughter, Carol Jean Yancy Hart and husband, Joseph, of Aledo; grandchildren, Kenneth Michael Whittenburg and wife, Amy, of Brock, Rebecca Joy Yancy Feisler of Burleson, Richard Curtis Yancy and wife, Veronica, of Queensbury, N.Y., Sherrill Ann Yancy Nguyen and husband, Daniel, of Burleson, Russell Allen Yancy of Queensbury and Jason Alan Nelson of Fort Worth; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Published in the Star-Telegram on 12/18/2007
Funeral: 9:30 a.m. Thursday in Greenwood Chapel, with Dr. Terry M. Williams and the Rev. Richard Curtis Yancy, grandson, officiating. Entombment: Greenwood Mausoleum. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Greenwood Funeral Home.
Memorials: The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, a donation be made to a heart disease foundation or diabetes association of your choice.
Tom was born Jan. 24, 1923, in Santa Anna, the son of Charlie Franklin and Virgie Bledsoe Yancy. He lived in Santa Anna through all his youth. In 1942, he met and fell in love with
Violette Ann Keller, a native of Mountain View, Okla., who was living in Tulare, Calif. After a two-week whirlwind courtship, they were married Aug. 26, 1942, and had been married for 63 1/2 years in February 2006 when she passed on to be with the Lord. Tom and Vi resided in California for a few years but then moved to Santa Anna in 1948. In 1950, they moved to Benbrook. He was a self-employed dump truck driver working for H.C. "Babe" Bryant. As time went by, he bought his own equipment and became Tom Yancy Sand and Gravel Co. He helped build and construct many of
the Fort Worth city streets in the 1950s. He constructed parking lots for various west side businesses in the area. The Fort Worth Water Department and federal contracts, which he was awarded for replacing the cables on the floodgates on various Texas lakes, were some of his later endeavors before retiring.
His family was charter members of the now-defunct Benbrook Saddle Club in the mid-1960s.
Survivors: Son, Tom Richard Yancy and wife, Mary, of Burleson; daughter, Carol Jean Yancy Hart and husband, Joseph, of Aledo; grandchildren, Kenneth Michael Whittenburg and wife, Amy, of Brock, Rebecca Joy Yancy Feisler of Burleson, Richard Curtis Yancy and wife, Veronica, of Queensbury, N.Y., Sherrill Ann Yancy Nguyen and husband, Daniel, of Burleson, Russell Allen Yancy of Queensbury and Jason Alan Nelson of Fort Worth; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Published in the Star-Telegram on 12/18/2007
Tom Yancy, 84, loving husband, father, grandfather and great-grandfather and retired owner of Tom Yancy Sand and Gravel Construction Co., passed away Sunday, Dec. 16, 2007.
Funeral: 9:30 a.m. Thursday in Greenwood Chapel, with Dr. Terry M. Williams and the Rev. Richard Curtis Yancy, grandson, officiating. Entombment: Greenwood Mausoleum. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Greenwood Funeral Home.
Memorials: The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, a donation be made to a heart disease foundation or diabetes association of your choice.
Tom was born Jan. 24, 1923, in Santa Anna, the son of Charlie Franklin and Virgie Bledsoe Yancy. He lived in Santa Anna through all his youth. In 1942, he met and fell in love with
Violette Ann Keller, a native of Mountain View, Okla., who was living in Tulare, Calif. After a two-week whirlwind courtship, they were married Aug. 26, 1942, and had been married for 63 1/2 years in February 2006 when she passed on to be with the Lord. Tom and Vi resided in California for a few years but then moved to Santa Anna in 1948. In 1950, they moved to Benbrook. He was a self-employed dump truck driver working for H.C. "Babe" Bryant. As time went by, he bought his own equipment and became Tom Yancy Sand and Gravel Co. He helped build and construct many of
the Fort Worth city streets in the 1950s. He constructed parking lots for various west side businesses in the area. The Fort Worth Water Department and federal contracts, which he was awarded for replacing the cables on the floodgates on various Texas lakes, were some of his later endeavors before retiring.
His family was charter members of the now-defunct Benbrook Saddle Club in the mid-1960s.
Survivors: Son, Tom Richard Yancy and wife, Mary, of Burleson; daughter, Carol Jean Yancy Hart and husband, Joseph, of Aledo; grandchildren, Kenneth Michael Whittenburg and wife, Amy, of Brock, Rebecca Joy Yancy Feisler of Burleson, Richard Curtis Yancy and wife, Veronica, of Queensbury, N.Y., Sherrill Ann Yancy Nguyen and husband, Daniel, of Burleson, Russell Allen Yancy of Queensbury and Jason Alan Nelson of Fort Worth; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Published in the Star-Telegram on 12/18/2007
Funeral: 9:30 a.m. Thursday in Greenwood Chapel, with Dr. Terry M. Williams and the Rev. Richard Curtis Yancy, grandson, officiating. Entombment: Greenwood Mausoleum. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at Greenwood Funeral Home.
Memorials: The family requests that, in lieu of flowers, a donation be made to a heart disease foundation or diabetes association of your choice.
Tom was born Jan. 24, 1923, in Santa Anna, the son of Charlie Franklin and Virgie Bledsoe Yancy. He lived in Santa Anna through all his youth. In 1942, he met and fell in love with
Violette Ann Keller, a native of Mountain View, Okla., who was living in Tulare, Calif. After a two-week whirlwind courtship, they were married Aug. 26, 1942, and had been married for 63 1/2 years in February 2006 when she passed on to be with the Lord. Tom and Vi resided in California for a few years but then moved to Santa Anna in 1948. In 1950, they moved to Benbrook. He was a self-employed dump truck driver working for H.C. "Babe" Bryant. As time went by, he bought his own equipment and became Tom Yancy Sand and Gravel Co. He helped build and construct many of
the Fort Worth city streets in the 1950s. He constructed parking lots for various west side businesses in the area. The Fort Worth Water Department and federal contracts, which he was awarded for replacing the cables on the floodgates on various Texas lakes, were some of his later endeavors before retiring.
His family was charter members of the now-defunct Benbrook Saddle Club in the mid-1960s.
Survivors: Son, Tom Richard Yancy and wife, Mary, of Burleson; daughter, Carol Jean Yancy Hart and husband, Joseph, of Aledo; grandchildren, Kenneth Michael Whittenburg and wife, Amy, of Brock, Rebecca Joy Yancy Feisler of Burleson, Richard Curtis Yancy and wife, Veronica, of Queensbury, N.Y., Sherrill Ann Yancy Nguyen and husband, Daniel, of Burleson, Russell Allen Yancy of Queensbury and Jason Alan Nelson of Fort Worth; and 18 great-grandchildren.
Published in the Star-Telegram on 12/18/2007
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