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Submitted: 1/29/20 • Approved: 5/21/23 • Last Updated: 5/24/23 • R261291-G261291-S3
William Charlie
January 15, 1917-June 26, 2000
“How green was my paradise valley!”
Myrtle Lucille Avary Faulkenberry
April 14, 1918-January 22, 2022
Precious Memories
Married May 2, 1936
Life Well Lived
*Obituary Myrtle Lucille Avary Faulkenberry
Lucille Avary Faulkenberry
Angels carried Lucille Faulkenberry to Heaven on January 22, 2022. A service to honor Lucille and remember her life will be at 2:30 PM on Thursday, January 27, 2022, in First Baptist Church, Seagraves, with Interim Pastor Rick Sullivan officiating and Phillip Golden reading the eulogy. Burial will be in Seagraves Gaines County Cemetery under the direction of Ratliff Funeral Home of Seagraves.
Lucille was born April 14, 1918, in Childress County, Texas, to Sam and Myrtle Franks Avary. She grew up on the family farm, attended Valley View rural school for three years, and graduated from Carey Consolidated High School in 1936. The volleyball team on which she played never lost a game.
Lucille met her future husband, William Faulkenberry, in fourth grade. The school sweethearts married May 2, 1936, in the Presbyterian parsonage in Childress. They farmed nine years in Childress County and moved to the South Plains in 1945. Lucille organized Willow Wells Home Demonstration Club through which she "learned everything she ever needed to know" about being a farmer's wife, mother, and homemaker. Her skills and talents were numerous, and she spread them around to benefit others. She actively supported her three children in their activities in Seagraves School.
When William and Lucille became empty nesters, they built a home in Seagraves in 1965. They traveled. Lucille made quilts, did crafts, painted, gardened, exercised with Jack LaLane, walked, organized the Friendship Extension Club in Seagraves, and helped where she saw a need. Wanting her town to thrive, she joined the Chamber of Commerce Women's Division, served on boards of the Seagraves Art Association and the Seagraves Senior Citizen Association. She devoted time and energy to beautifying city parks of Seagraves and First Baptist Church. She was a charter member of Seagraves Garden Club that built the Walking Park in 2010. She was on the forefront of local activities—agriculture-related events, church, clubs, and community celebrations. The Seagraves Chamber of Commerce named her to the Seagraves Hall of Fame in 2016.
Lucille was a member of the First Baptist Church of Seagraves for 76 years. She taught Sunday school to four-and five-year-old children for almost three-quarters of a century. She loved her church and served in many capacities. Lucille was a lady of service and wanted to be where the action was.
Lucille was preceded in death by her husband William Charlie Faulkenberry (2000); brothers, Luke Avary (2013) and Cpl. Charles Russell Avary (1950) in Korea; sisters, Marie Avary Faulkenberry (2005), Willie Osborn Diggs (2016,) Inez Hall Bass Barnett (2010); sons-in-law Jimmy Douglas Hadaway (2007) and Alvin Ray Lynn (2020); great-grandson Rex Remington Reeser (2002).
Survivors include her daughters, Jeanette Hadaway of Seagraves and Nadyne Lynn of Amarillo; son, Joe Faulkenberry (Sue) of Canyon; granddaughters, Kimberly Reeser of Austin and Joanna Anderson of Kyle; great-granddaughters Susannah Reeser of Lubbock and Olivia Reeser of Ajijic, Mexico; great-grandsons, William Anderson of Austin, Alex Anderson and Tommy Anderson of Nashville, Tennessee.
Of this sweet lady, to whom God gave 103 years, could be said, "I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. Now, there is in store for me the crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous judge, will award to me on that day. And not only to me, but also to all who have longed for His appearing."
Posted online on January 26, 2022
Published in Amarillo Globe News
Contributed on 1/29/20 by neldapat
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