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Submitted: 2/6/21 • Approved: 2/7/21 • Last Updated: 2/10/21 • R386992-G386992-S3
1922-2018
Photo, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Margie Hazlett
June 12, 1922 - May 27, 2018
Margie "Marge" Kathryn Hazlett, a long time resident of Borger, passed away in hospice care at 4:00 p.m.,Sunday, May 27th, 2018, in Lubbock at the age of 95.
Marge spent most of her life in Borger before moving away in 2002. She was living in Lubbock at the time of her death.
Margie Kathryn (Kelln) Hazlett was born June 12th, 1922, in Canadian, Texas, to John A. Kelln and Mollie (Laubhan) Kelln, Russian immigrants. Margie attended Canadian High School where she enjoyed many activities including being a drum majorette in the band. She graduated from Canadian High School in 1944 and worked for an architecture firm during World War II. She married the love of her life U.S. Army Air Force Lieutenant Alvin Guy Hazlett on September 8th, 1945. Margie graduated from Frank Phillips College in 1991 with an Associate's Degree in Art.
Marge had an unwavering faith in God. She was a past member of the First Baptist Church of Borger. Margie was an accomplished artist, seamstress, cook, and musician and calligrapher. She enjoyed painting with both oils and acrylic paints, and many of her numerous paintings are in the homes of family and friends. Mrs. Hazlett was a member of the Eastern Star. She played the organ and the piano and was a member of the Craig Methodist Choir in Amarillo where she resided before moving to Lubbock.
Marge also quilted and made individual quilts for many of her children and grandchildren. She had a wonderful smile that put everyone in a room at ease. She will truly be missed.
She was preceded in death by her loving husband, Judge Hazlett in 1994; her parents; all of her 5 sisters and 4 brothers, Elsie Turner, Martha Nitschke, Mayme Laubhan, Bertha Laubhan, Josephine Bagwell Gentili, John Robert Kelln, David Adam Kelln, William Kelln, and Benjamin Franklin Kelln; and one great-granddaughter, Emily Hazlett.
Marge is survived by: a daughter, Kandice Ballman and her husband Clay of Lubbock; 2 sons: Alvin Guy Hazlett, II and his wife Trudy of Euless and Michael Howard Hazlett and wife Hazel of Gainesville, Florida; 9 grandchildren: Conrad Ballman, Cameron Ballman, Chance Ballman, Patrick Hazlett and his wife, Curtis Hazlett and his wife, Robert Guy Hazlett and his wife, Angela Craven and her husband, Christopher Hazlett, Rebekah Knudsen and her husband, 12 great-grandchildren, 4 great-great-grandchildren, and numerous nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends on Friday, June 1 from 5:00 PM- 7:00 PM at Brown's Chapel of the Fountains. A funeral service honoring her long and beautiful life will be held Saturday, June 2, 2018 at 2:00 PM at Brown's Chapel of the Fountains, Borger, with Pastor Bobby Bridges officiating. Interment will follow at Westlawn Cemetery, Borger.
For I am persuaded, that neither life, nor angel, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
Romans 8:Verses 38 and 39
Services are entrusted to Brown Funeral Directors, Borger.
(Published by Brown Funeral Directors, Monday, May 28, 2018)
Contributed on 2/6/21 by neldapat
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