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Submitted: 10/21/21 • Approved: 10/21/21 • Last Updated: 10/24/21 • R464402-G464402-S3
November 19, 1918-April 6, 2001
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
WHEELER - Lillian Elizabeth Bailey, 82, died Friday, April 6, 2001.
Graveside services will be at 2 p.m. Sunday in Wheeler Cemetery with the Rev. Jerry Jewel, pastor of Country Chapel, officiating. Arrangements are by Wright Funeral Home.
Mrs. Bailey was born Nov. 19, 1918, to John and Caroline Harris Geyer, in Meridian, Okla. She married Cecil H. Bailey on Dec. 24, 1946, in Wheeler. She had lived in Wheeler County since 1945. She was a homemaker. She was a member of Landmark Missionary Baptist Church.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1992; by a son, Paul Willyard, in 2000; and by a daughter, Delorse [sic] Moore, in 2000.
Survivors include two sons, Carl Willyard of Oklahoma City and Frank Willyard of French Camp, Calif.; a daughter, Clarise Hathaway of Mobeetie; 17 grandchildren and 30 great-grandchildren.
The family suggests memorials be to a favorite charity.
(Published in Amarillo Daily News, April 7, 2001)
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U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007
Name: Lillian Elizabeth Willyard [Lillian Elizabeth Bailey] [Lillian Bailey] [Lillian Elizabeth Geyer]
Gender: Female
Race: White
Birth Date: 19 Nov 1918
Birth Place: Willow Greer, Arkansas [Brinkman Gre??, Oklahoma]
Death Date: 6 Apr 2001
Father: John Geyer
Mother: Callie Harris
Notes: Oct 1945: Name listed as LILLIAN ELIZABETH WILLYARD; Dec 1956: Name listed as LILLIAN ELIZABETH BAILEY; 10 Apr 2001: Name listed as LILLIAN E BAILEY
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