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Submitted: 4/15/21 • Approved: 4/16/21 • Last Updated: 4/19/21 • R409105-G0-S3
August 20, 1929 - June 30, 2009
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Mac Weathersbee, 79, died Tuesday June 30, 2009 in a Lubbock hospital. Services will be 2:00 p.m. Friday July 3, 2009 at the First Baptist Church of Rotan with Brother Corkey Wells officiating. Burial will be in Belvieu Cemetery under the direction of Weathersbee-Ray Funeral Home.
Born August 20, 1929 in Rotan, Mac was a son of the late O.D. and Velma (Boyd) Weathersbee. Mac was a life-long resident and pillar of his community he was loved and respected by all who knew him. He graduated with the Rotan High School class of 1946 and received a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Baylor University in 1950. Mac flew 68 missions in P-51?s and T-33?s as a pilot in the United States Air Force from 1951-1955 during the Korean War. He met Carolyn Bell on her first day of college and they married in Fort Worth in 1952. After returning from the war Mac went back to school and graduated from the Dallas Institute of Mortuary Science in 1955. Mac?s father O.D. Weathersbee founded Weathersbee Funeral home where Mac worked as a funeral director since 1956. He would later co-own Weathersbee Funeral Home with his brother Doug Weathersbee for forty years until they retired in 1999. Mac was active in the funeral industry. He was an officer of the West Texas Funeral Directors Association and was named Funeral Director of the year in 1992. Also active in his community, Mac was an Eagle Scout, Little League coach, a fifty year member of the Lions Club, a member of the Rotan City Council and the West Central Texas Counsel of Government. Mac also taught Sunday school and was a Deacon of the First Baptist Church of Rotan. He is preceded in death by his parents. Mac will be greatly missed by all who knew him personally and professionally.
Survivors include his wife Carolyn Weathersbee; two sons and daughters-in-law, Burt and Barbara Weathersbee of Dallas and Byron and Carla Weathersbee of Waco; one daughter and son-in-law, Dee Ann and Donny Mullins of Rotan; one brother and sister-in-law, Doug and Shirley Weathersbee of Rotan; six grandchildren, Dayme and her husband Marcus Walther, Dane Mullins and his wife Lori, David Mullins and his fiancé Taylor, Bo Weathersbee, Brittney Weathersbee and Casey Weathersbee; and one great-grandchild, Cooper D Mullins.
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