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Submitted: 4/13/21 • Approved: 4/16/21 • Last Updated: 4/19/21 • R408588-G408587-S3
August 29, 1914 - July 10, 2007
*Obituary
On April 21, 1933 Dave and Willmath (Seaton) dressed in their wedding attire and drove to Roby where they received their license to marry and headed straight for the preachers house in Rotan to get married. They settled into their new home in the Wright Community and had their first child, Richard. Oh what a joy he was! When Richard was only six weeks old this young family decided to seek fame and fortune out west in Oregon. After some time they became home-sick and realized how wonderful Texas was, arriving just in time for the birth of their second son Terry later to be known as Ted. Two years later a daughter Lanny arrived. After Lanny came the last daughter four years later, Bobbie. World War II was on and Dave was moving cattle. He ranched and owned a farm for eighty years. An early friend of Willmath's, Mr. Jim, became partners with Dave in the cattle business and P and O Lumber Company. At the end of the war Dave and Willmath began building their home in Rotan. Dave and Willmath worked hard, but they still had time to love and play not only with their four children but a score of other friends as well in particular Lawrence and Jane Sparks.
In the autumn of their lives the time came to accept a smaller home with assistance. It did not come without tears of giving up their independence and their home of sixty years. After seventy-three years of marriage this new life would be an adventure to look forward to and a reality that would lift many burdens.).
Survivors include one son and daughter-in-law, Ted and Gloria Posey; two daughters and sons-in-law, Lanny and Dan Maeyers and Bobbie and Charles L. Miller; one daughter-in-law, Carol Posey; fourteen grandchildren, Patricia Osborn, Robert Posey, Julie Bibb, Jill Dennis, Jan Muery, Terry McWilliams, Cindy Putnam, David Posey, Jeff Posey, Kate Westbrook, Dixie Allen, S.J. Westbrook, Tom Miller and Merry Kay Brewer; thirty-nine great grandchildren and two great-great grandchildren.
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