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Hestell SIMMONS

Wheeler Cemetery
Wheeler County,
Texas

July 20, 1907-February 24, 2003

*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley

*Obituary WHEELER –
Lou Hestell Killingsworth, 95, died Monday, Feb. 24, 2003.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church with Dr. Toby Henson, pastor, and the Rev. Bill Stiles officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.

Mrs. Killingsworth was born July 20, 1907, in McAlester, Okla., to Walter Allen and Minnie Olar Kelley Thompson. She attended school in McAlester. She married Jesse D. Simmons on Aug. 17, 1928, in Collingsworth County. They moved to Wheeler County in 1928 and he died in 1935.

She married Clarence O. Killingsworth on Feb. 11, 1937, in Wheeler. She was a member of First Baptist Church, where she taught various Sunday school classes and was a member of the hostess committee. She was past president of Wheeler County Gospel Singing Convention and North Wheeler County Garden Club that planted the pecan trees on the Wheeler County courthouse square.

She was preceded in death by her first husband; her second husband in 1981; and a grandson, Jesse L. Simmons in 1999.

Survivors include a son, Virgil Simmons of Wheeler; a daughter, Elwanda Gille of Littleton, Colo.; six grandchildren; 16 great-grandchildren; 11 great-great-grandchildren; and a host of nieces and nephews.

The family suggests memorials be to Crown of Texas Hospice, 1000 S. Jefferson St., Amarillo, TX 79109; or a favorite charity.

Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 26, 2003

Contributed on 11/10/21

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Submitted: 11/10/21 • Approved: 11/10/21 • Last Updated: 11/13/21 • R467966-G467965-S3

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