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Submitted: 9/10/21 • Approved: 9/10/21 • Last Updated: 9/13/21 • R455497-G455496-S3
Aubrey Jerrell
December 30, 1918-February 22, 2009
Mason
Please see military marker
Maxine
September 29, 1920-January 17, 2013
Our Beloved
Please see Tisdale Family Marker
Please see closeup view
*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary Aubrey
BORGER - Aubrey Jerrell Tisdale, 90, died Sunday, Feb. 22, 2009, in Greenville.
Services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday in St. Andrew United Methodist Church with the Rev. Ted Wilson, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.
Mr. Tisdale was born Dec. 30, 1918, in Dodson. Phillips 66 rehired Aubrey as a stillman when he and Maxine returned from the service, providing their two daughters a comfortable life.
Survivors include his wife, Maxine Tisdale; two daughters, Karen Newcomb of Greenville and Nikki Acker of Borger; a brother, Johnny Tisdale of Littlefield; three sisters, Irma Leta Box of Early and Lenora Massey and Eureta Swanner, both of Plainview; six grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to BSA Volunteers for the Hospital Arboretum, Baptist St. Anthony's Hospital, 1600 Wallace Blvd., Amarillo, TX 79106.
Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 25, 2009
*Obituary Maxine
Maxine Tisdale, 92, died January 17, 2013 in Greenville, Texas. Funeral services will be 10:00 a.m. at St. Andrew United Methodist Church with Pastor John Westman officiating. Interment will follow at Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of Minton Chatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.
Maxine was delivered by her grandfather, Dr. Marquis de Lafayette Twilley, as the 8th child of El Dora Twilley and Armisted Milligan In Dodson, Texas. As hard working families of those years were, when an older brother acquired a job with Phillips Petroleum, the whole family moved there. Mom entered Phillips High School along with her baby sister and 3 nieces. Our dad, Aubrey had moved from Dodson to Phillips to play football for Chesty Walker's Blackhawks. Maxine fell in love and married him in 1939. Of course, they both went to work for Phillips...mom climbed atop tank cars and sniffed the contents as a job!
Dad joined the army when War started and was sent to occupied Germany in '46. Then mom followed him with the first group of wives to join their husbands. They shipped out of New York Harbor after being interviewed on the Ted Malone Radio Show. They lived with various German folks on their farms and mom was given a jeep with her name emblazoned large on the hood. War torn, but a beautiful experience. She loved the snow, but it made her homesick (it snowed in Greenville during her hospital stay and she was glad)
Once back home with 2 daughters and dad's health issues, mom went back to work with Phillips as a lab tech in the Copolymer Plant of course with the 3 shift work schedule, for 7 days each. Dad became a stillman at the Phillips refinery working daylight, evening and graveyards also, but on a 5 day schedule. Not surprisingly, they grew apart....Life goes on ....
They were happily remarried in October 2002 at the Georgia Street Nazarene Church in Amarillo.
Maxine was a member of Jane Phillips Society and a Helping Hands Volunteer and in lieu of flowers she would appreciate donations to Helping Hands, who are so in need now.
She is survived by her two daughters Karen Newcomb and her husband Sterling of Greenville and Nikki Acker and her husband Mike of Borger, her six grandchildren Trey Newcomb, Jessica Acker Hogan, Audra Acker, Chelsea Acker Gorham, Sam Acker and Suzette Acker, her six great grandchildren Warren Acker Ramby, Olivia Kate Newcomb, Alexandra Kate Newcomb, Calvin Gorham, Allison Gorham and Eli Jude Gorham.
(Published in Borger News Herald, January 21, 2013)
Contributed on 9/10/21
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