BRICKEY, BILL - Wheeler County, Texas | BILL BRICKEY - Texas Gravestone Photos

Bill BRICKEY

Wheeler Cemetery
Wheeler County,
Texas

Bill
1920-2011

WWII Vet
Please see military marker

Vera Hampton
1928-2010

Married 1946
Parents of
Sylvia, Margaret, Elizabeth, Rosemary, Robert
John 3:16

*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones

*Obituary Bill
WHEELER - Bill Brickey, 90, died Sunday, Jan. 23, 2011.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday in First Baptist Church in Wheeler with the Rev. Larry Mitchell officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.

Bill was born Aug. 4, 1920, in Wilburton, Okla., to Aaron Brickey and Georgian Duke, and he lived there before moving his family to Texas.

He enlisted in the U.S. Army on July 7, 1942, at the age of 21. He served in France, Belgium, Luxemberge, Germany and the United States as a squadron leader, supervising a five-man team. Sgt. Brickey was discharged on Feb. 22, 1946.

He moved to Wheeler that year and married Vera Ruth Hampton on June 27, 1946, in Wheeler. They were married for 64 years, until her death on March 9, 2010.

Bill worked for the Garrison/Cross (Gulf) station for 40 years before retiring.

He was preceded in death by his parents; his wife, Vera Brickey; and a daughter, Rosemary Palchek, in 1992.

Survivors include a son, Robert Brickey and wife Bonnie of Wheeler; three daughters, Betsy Vick of Wheeler, Sylvia Couch and husband Stan of Clarendon, and Margaret Blanton and husband Ken of Brownwood; four grandsons, Wade and Colby Brickey, William Jordan and Chris Vick; two granddaughters, Kathy Martin and Sherry Jordan; eight great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials be to Odyssey Hospice, 6900 W. Interstate 40, Suite 150, Amarillo, TX 79106

Sign the online guest book at www.wrightfuneraldirectors.com.

Amarillo Globe-News, Jan. 25, 2011

*Obituary Vera
WHEELER - Vera Ruth Brickey, 81, died Tuesday, March 9, 2010, in Amarillo.

Services will be at 10 a.m. in First Baptist Church in Wheeler with the Rev. Erron Mercer, pastor of Cornerstone Church of Wheeler, officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.

Vera was born Dec. 23, 1928, in Roger Mills County, Okla., to Charlie Ollie Hampton and Sallie Ann Coggins Hampton. She married Bill Brickey in 1946 in Wheeler. She lived in Wheeler all of her life. She was a homemaker, loving wife, mother and grandmother.

She was preceded in death by a daughter, Rosemary Palechek, in 1992.

Survivors include her husband, Bill Brickey; a brother, J.C. Hampton of Shamrock; three daughters, Sylvia Couch of Clarendon, Margaret Blanton of Brownwood and Betsy Vick of Wheeler; a son, Robert Brickey of Wheeler; six grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

Sign the online guest book at www.wrightfuneraldirectors.com.

Amarillo Globe-News, March 12, 2010

Contributed on 10/22/21

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Submitted: 10/22/21 • Approved: 10/22/21 • Last Updated: 10/25/21 • R464628-G464628-S3

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