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Submitted: 6/19/22 • Approved: 6/22/22 • Last Updated: 6/25/22 • R520442-G520440-S3
William Dean Hawkins
September 29, 1913-April 10, 1963
Ida Belle Hicks Hawkins
July 15, 1921-October 4, 2007
Parents of Bill Dean, Jim, Sharon, & Steve
*Photo/information, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary William Dean Hawkins
Funeral services for William Dean Hawkins, 49, were held at 2 p.m. riday, April 12, at the First Methodist Church in Tulia with the pastor, the Rev. H.B. Coggins officiating. He died of a heart attack about 9 p.m. Wednesday in his home at 802 Northwest Sixth, Tulia.
Born Sept. 29, 1913, in Perryton, Mr. Hawkins was married to Miss Ida Belle Hicks of Hereford on Sept. 17, 1944. He moved to Las Vegas, N.M., from Hereford and taught agriculture in the high school there.
For the past 10 years he had been the owner and operator of the Dairy Queen in Tulia. He attended Texas Tech and was a graduate of West Texas University.
Burial was in West Park Cemetery in Hereford under the direction of the Wallace Funeral Home of Tulia.
Surviving Mr. Hawkins are his wife; three sons, Bill Dean, Jim, and Steve Allen; a daughter, Sharon Lee, all of the home; two brothers, Donald of Corpus Christi, and Thurman of Wichita Falls; two sisters, Kathaletta Wheeless of Amarillo and Mrs. Cosette Ross of Wichita Falls.
The son-in-law of Mr. and Mrs. C.M. Hicks of Hereford, Mr. Hawkins was the son of the late D.W. Hawkins, who was principal of the Hereford Schools when the first class was graduated in 1906.
(Published in The Sunday Brand, Vol. 15-No. 42, Hereford, Texas, Sunday, April 14, 1963, Page 3)
*Obituary Ida Belle Hicks Hawkins
TULIA - Ida Belle Hawkins, 86, died Thursday, Oct. 4, 2007, in Weatherford.
Graveside services will be at 3 p.m. today in West Park Cemetery in Hereford. Arrangements are by Kornerstone Funeral Directors in Tulia.
Mrs. Hawkins was born July 15, 1921, in Hereford to Cliff and Elizabeth Hicks. Mrs. Hawkins was a lifelong registered nurse in Amarillo and Tulia, where she and her husband, W.D. Bill Hawkins, ran the local Dairy Queen for 20 years.
Ida Belle spent the last six years of her life with her special friends at the Tulia Nursing Center, where she had been the charge nurse and administrator for many years, and then later at Peach Tree Place in Weatherford, where she received the special love, care and attention from their wonderful staff that made her last years happy and comfortable.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Bill; and two brothers, Donald Hicks and Elmo Hicks.
Survivors include three sons, Bill Dean Hawkins, James Clifford Hawkins and Steve Hawkins and wife Anna Dee; a daughter, Sharon Allen and husband Mike; three grandchildren, Chris Allen, Tracy Allen and Avery Hawkins; a sister, Mary Beth Smits and husband Jerry; a brother, Bob Hicks and wife Linda; and a number of nieces and nephews.
Amarillo Globe-News, Oct. 5, 2007
Contributed on 6/19/22 by neldapat
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