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Submitted: 1/3/22 • Approved: 1/3/22 • Last Updated: 1/6/22 • R478450-G478449-S3
A.O. “Bud”
1915-1983
Please see military marker
Novella
1911-1998
Inscribed on back of headstone:
Loving parents of:
Terry, Bobby, and Becky
*Photo/Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary A.O. “Bud”
Son of John Alexander Vanpool & Nellie May Hutton
A.O. (Bud) Vanpool, 68, died Tuesday night, March 22, 1983.
Services will be held at 4:00 p.m. Thursday, March 24, 1983 in the First Baptist Church. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, March 24, 1983)
*Obituary Novella
WHEELER - Novella Ruth Vanpool, 87, died Friday, Aug. 7, 1998.
Services will be at 2:30 p.m. Sunday in Country Chapel with the Rev. Rodney Weatherly officiating. Burial will be in Wheeler Cemetery by Wright Funeral Home of Wheeler.
Mrs. Vanpool was born in Kelton and was a resident of Wheeler County all of her life. She graduated from Kelton High School and attended Oklahoma Baptist University. In 1939, she graduated from West Texas State University.
Mrs. Vanpool taught at Sandy Basin School, Twitty School and Magic City School. She taught in the Wheeler School system for 18 years and retired in 1973.
Mrs. Vanpool was a member of Business Women's Club, Progressive Study Club, the Retired Teachers Association and the Texas State Teachers Association. She was a member of the Country Chapel Church.
She married A.O. "Bud" Vanpool in 1942 at Wheeler. He died in 1983.
Survivors include two sons, Terry Vanpool of Arlington and Bobby Vanpool of Wheeler; a daughter, Becky Garrett of San Antonio; three brothers, Gordon Whitener and Hiram Whitener, both of Wheeler, and Herbert Whitener of Tyler; a sister, Louise Plowman of Garland; eight grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren.
The family requests memorials be to the Country Chapel.
Amarillo Globe-News, August 8, 1998
Contributed on 1/3/22
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