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Margaret Lucille PAPAY

Lieb Cemetery
Hutchinson County,
Texas

Edward Harold
March 14, 1922-July 2, 2003

USN
Please see military marker

Margaret Lucille
August 22, 1924-May 6, 2012

Mother of Eddie, Gary, Milana, & Tony

Married December 29, 1946 at Elkhart, Kansas

*Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley


*Obituary for Edward
MORSE - Edward "Ed" H. Papay Sr., 81, died Wednesday, July 2, 2003.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Monday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Mike Martin, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Lieb Cemetery by Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.

Mr. Papay was born March 14, 1922, on a farm near Optima, Okla., to Jim and Lucy Papay. He grew up around Optima, attended school there and high school in Guymon, Okla. He moved with his family to a farm near Elkhart, Kan., in 1938.

He helped on the farm and attended one year of school in Elkhart. He entered the Navy on Sept. 18, 1942 and was a World War II veteran. He served in the Navy Air Corps as an aviation machinist mate third class.

He served three years and three months, spending 22 months in the South Pacific as a mechanic on the PBY airplanes. Mr. Papay returned to Norman, Okla., as an instructor until he was discharged on Dec. 17, 1945.

He was very athletic and participated in all sports in school and continued to play basketball and baseball after serving in World War II. He was extremely proud of being in the Navy and enjoyed talking about his life in the Navy as well as showing his pictures.

Mr. Papay married Margaret "Marge" Lucille Hensley in Elkhart, Kan., on Dec. 29, 1946. Returning to Elkhart, he was produce manager at Ideal Food Store. In 1948, he was store manager of the Ideal Food Store in Texhoma, Okla., for six months, and he returned to Elkhart as a manager of the Coop Grocery Store.

In 1951, he moved to Hitchland, Texas, to work as a farmer and rancher having worked for several farmers in and around Morse. Moving to Morse in 1969, he and Marge owned and operated the Morse Grocery Store in the 1970s. He and his sons started custom farming and he retired from farming in May 2002.

Mr. Papay was a member of First Baptist Church in Morse, past member of the American Legion in Elkhart and life member of the Morse Lions Club.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a sister, Tommie Fern; six brothers, Jamie Papay, Emit Papay, Guy Papay, Kenneth Papay, Gerald Papay and Neil Archer; and a son, Eddie in 2002.

Survivors include his wife of 56 years; a daughter, Milana Reiswig, and her husband, Travis, of Morse; a son Tony of Morse; a son, Gary and wife, Vicky, of Amarillo; two brothers, Ray Papay and his wife, Mary Ida, of Elkhart, and Larry Papay and his wife, Dale, of Greenfield, Okla; three sisters, Elizabeth Kern of Elkhart, Joy Foreman, and her husband, Johnie, of Guymon and Ann Papay of Ulysses, Kan.; two sisters-in-law, Lillian Papay of Great Bend, Kan., and Evelyn Papay of Guthrie, Okla.; 10 grandchildren, Cassondra Lauderdale and her husband, Paul, of Weatherford, Valorie Kohoutek and her husband, James, of Kansas City, Mo., Leslie Barnhart and her husband, Barney, of Lewisville, Roxanne Davis and her husband, Jay, of Hart, Mark Papay and his wife, Francesca, of Tucson, Ariz., John Papay of Amarillo, Shelby Reiswig and Rosio, of Dumas, Katherine Papay and Frank of Levelland, Mikala Reiswig of Morse and Elizabeth Papay of Amarillo; 11 great-grandchildren, Sarah, Bryan and Megan Lauderdale, Trenton Barnhart, Hunter Papay, Xavier and Rocky Reiswig, Zoe Kohoutek, John Luke Papay, Hayden Davis, Matthew Papay; a step-great-granddaughter, Gabriella Castillo, and many nieces, nephews, cousins and friends.

The family suggests memorials be to Lieb Cemetery, 11547 County Road 13, Stinnett, TX 79083; Hansford Hospice, 707 Roland, Spearman, TX 79081; or Don and Sybil Harrington Cancer Center, in care of Maureen McCormick, 1500 Wallace Blvd., Amarillo, TX 79106.

Amarillo Globe News, July 6, 2003

*Obituary for Margaret
MORSE — Margaret "Marge" Lucille Papay, 87, of Morse died Sunday May 6, 2012, in Amarillo.

Services will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church in Morse, where she was a member, with the Rev. Gary Stevens, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Lieb Cemetery. Arrangements are by Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.

Marge was born Aug. 22, 1924, on a farm nine miles southeast of Elkhart, Kan., in Texas County, Okla., to Dewey and Gladys Hensley. She lived on the farm until the family moved into Elkhart in 1929. She graduated from Elkhart High School in May 1942.

She married Ed Papay on Dec. 29, 1946, in First Baptist Church in Elkhart.

She was employed in a variety of jobs, baby-sitting and driving trucks during harvest for her father. Her first public job was at Owen's Variety store, earning a wage of 10 cents per hour. She worked as a secretary, cashier and waitress at two cafes. During World War II, she was a clerk at the Office of Price Administration rationing office. After hours from there and on weekends, she worked as a waitress. After marriage, she worked at the drug store, enjoying working behind the soda fountain.

The couple lived in Texhoma, Okla., in late 1947 until the middle of 1948, where she was a checker for Ideal Food Store. They moved back to Elkhart, and in 1951, they moved to a farm near Hitchland.

As she was growing up, she spent a lot of time on her grandparents' Hensley farm, learning cow milking and gardening, which she enjoyed until quitting in her 80s due to health reasons.

She enjoyed farm life. She raised big gardens, had chickens, pigs and several milk cows. The milk was separated, and she delivered cream and eggs on Tuesday and Friday to the residents at New Hope Panhandle Eastern Gas Co. and residents of Hitchland. The blizzard of March 1957 killed several cows, calves and the children's donkey. In November 1958, they moved near Morse, living on different farms, where she drove tractors and grain trucks during harvest.

The family moved into Morse in 1969. She had managed Morse Grocery Store for a year. Ed and Marge bought the store and in 1977 closed it. All the Morse children were loved by her, and many called her Grandma. She enjoyed attending school activities and sporting events of her children and grandchildren.

In the 1980s, Papay Custom Farming was formed by her husband and three sons. She would load up some of the grandchildren and go after parts in the surrounding towns. She kept everyone on the right track, helping where and when she was needed.

Her life was full of many blessings. One special blessing was being able to care for her oldest son, Eddie, for several years and whom God took home in 2002; then she cared for her husband, whom God took home in 2003.

In October 1996, she was recognized for more than 25 years of volunteer service with the government of the United States of America with the National Weather Service in Amarillo.

She had a caring, loving heart for everyone, was optimistic and had a positive attitude. Her family was deeply loved by her. Life was good. She enjoyed bird watching, gardening, cooking and family get-togethers. She kept in touch with relatives and friends by sending greeting cards and phone calls. She also enjoyed all of her pictures, especially of her family. She was called Mama, Mom, Mommy, Speedy and Grandma Marge by her family. She will be greatly missed.

In 2008, she was diagnosed with kidney failure. She was able to live a few more years because of the wonderful care of the staff at DaVita, formerly Amarillo, Kidney Specialists. The family would like to give a very special thanks to Dr. Luzma Houseal and nurse Diana Terry, whom have been with the family from the start. Another very special thanks is to the loving staff at Odyssey Hospice in Amarillo for their care in her final days.

She was preceded in death by her parents; a son; her husband of 56 years; and a brother, Elmer Hensley, in November 2007.

Survivors include two sons, Gary Papay and friend Sharon Marcum of Amarillo and Tony Papay of Morse; a daughter, Milana Reiswig and husband Travis of Morse; a sister, Ruby Fernimen and husband Chris of Bonne Terre, Mo.; a sister-in-law, Adeline Hensley of Loveland, Colo.; 10 grandchildren and their spouses, Cassondra and Paul Lauderdale of Weatherford, Valorie and James Kohoutek of Mission, Kan., Leslie and Craig Barnhart of Carrolton, Roxanne and Jay Davis of Dumas, Mark Papay of Tucson, Ariz., John and Jessica Papay of Amarillo, Shelby and Rosio Reiswig of Stinnett, Katherine and Frank Ayala of Levelland, Mikala Reiswig of Scottsdale, Ariz., and Elizabeth and Matt Wade of Amarillo; 22 great-grandchildren, Sarah, Bryan and Megan Lauderdale, Zoe, Christian, Zachary and Oliver Kohoutek, Trenton Barnhart, Haydn and Sequin Davis, Hunter Papay, Luke and Rachel Papay, Xavier, Rocky and Dixie Reiswig, Matthew Papay, Andrew, Jacob and Israel Ayala, Jace Luginbyhl and Lily Wade; and many nieces, nephews and friends.

The family suggests memorials be to Morse Community Building, P.O. Box 114, Morse, TX 79062; or Lieb Cemetary, 11547 County Road 13, Stinnett, TX 79083.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. today in Minton-Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.

Published in the Amarillo Globe-News, May 9, 2012

Contributed on 12/5/20 by neldapat
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