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Submitted: 11/25/20 • Approved: 11/25/20 • Last Updated: 11/28/20 • R368091-G368090-S3
Willis Eldred
1900-1953
He died as he lived, trusting in Jesus
Nellie Lee
1904-1988
Even in darkness, light dawns for the righteous.
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*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary for Willis
Funeral services for Willis E. Sheets, a Canyon resident since 1947, were conducted at the Spearman Church of Christ Friday afternoon, February 6, at 2 o'clock. Earl Craig, director of the Bible Chair at West Texas State College, officiated at the funeral and he was assisted by Joe Watson, minister of the Canyon Church of Christ.
Sheets passed away suddenly at his home in Canyon Wednesday morning at 4:15. He was born February 11, 1900, and in just one week would have observed his 52nd birthday.
The deceased is survived by his wife, Nellie Sheets; four sons, Don, Jess, and Jodie Sheets, Canyon, and Shirley in the army stationed near El Paso; five daughters, Mrs. Marvin Cornette, Huntsville, Wanda, Grace, Peggy, and Leatha Sheets of Canyon; five brothers, Dasil Sheets, Clayton, N.M., Leonard Sheets, Texline, William Sheets, Spearman, Ray Sheets, Canadian, and Riley Sheets of Oklahoma City, Okla.; five sisters, Mrs. R.B. Archer, Mrs. E.P. Hester, Mrs. Floyd Rikes [sic], all of Spearman, Mrs. Bob Cates, Sunray, and Mrs. F.I. Bynum, Ft. Worth.
Burial was in Holt Cemetery in Spearman.
(Published in The Canyon News (Canyon, Texas) - 11 Feb 1953, Wed - Page 9)
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Texas, Death Certificates, 1903–1982
Name: Willis Eldred Sheets
Birth Date: 11 Feb 1900
Birth Place: Granitte, Oklahoma
Gender: Male
Race: White
Residence: Canyon, Randall, Texas
Father: Willis Earnest Sheets
Mother: Roena Evelyn Lathel
Age at Death: 52
Death Date: 4 Feb 1953
Death Place: Canyon, Randall, Texas, USA
*Obituary for Nellie
CANYON - Nellie L. Sheets, 84, 2110 Sixth Ave., Canyon, died Tuesday, Nov. 22, 1988 at her home.
Services were held at 10 a.m. Friday at University Church of Christ in Canyon with Bob Wear, Church of Christ in Hereford, officiating under the direction of Schooler-Gordon Funeral Directors of Canyon.
Graveside services were held at 3:30 p.m. at Holt Cemetery in Spearman with John Scott, of the Spearman Church of Christ officiating.
She was born in Lone Wolf, Okla., and had lived in Canyon since 1947. She was a special education teacher at Sam Houston Junior High School in Amarillo for nine years and also taught in Tulia for four years.
She was a member of Order of the Eastern Star and the National Retired Teachers Association. She was a member of the University Church of Christ.
Survivors include four sons, Wiley Sheets of Spearman, Shirley Sheets of Austin, Jess Sheets of Wheeler and Jody Sheets of Borger; five daughters, Letha Golden of Amarillo, Peggy Woods of Houston, Grace Bright of Petersburg, Wanda Clemmer of Alta Loma, Calif., Wilma Cornette of White Deer; 25 grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her husband Eldred in 1953, two sons, Joe Roy Sheets in 1943 and Don Sheets in 1985.
(Published in Borger News Herald, November 25, 1988)
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Contributed on 11/25/20 by neldapat
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