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Submitted: 7/4/22 • Approved: 7/4/22 • Last Updated: 7/7/22 • R523165-G523163-S3
Lewis Lea
December 21, 1928-April 9, 2019
“Dad”
Please see military marker
Nita F. King Lea
June 11, 1932-April 9, 1994
“Ninny”
Married June 12, 1951
Our children: Cindy, Sheila, Kelly, Kevin, Stacy
*Photo, courtesy of Mary (Coggin) Russell
*Obituary Lewis Lea
Funeral Services for Lewis Spec Lea, 90, will be held at 11:00 a.m. Friday, April 12, 2019 at First United Methodist Church with the Reverend Kevin Bushart, pastor, officiating. Interment will follow at West Park Cemetery, under the care of Parkside Chapel Funeral Home. The family will receive guests from 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m. Thursday, April 11, 2019 at Parkside Chapel. Mr. Lea passed into his heavenly reward on Tuesday, April 09, 2019 in Hereford.
Mr. Lea was born December 21, 1928 in Mobeetie, Texas to Warren and Leona (Ring) Lea. Spec attended school in Portales, New Mexico. He proudly served his country during World War II in the United States Army. Spec met and fell in love with Nita Frances King. They later married on June 12, 1951. He had been a resident of Hereford for over fifty years, moving here from Lamesa. He was a member of Hereford Lions Club, Optimist Club, American Legion, and VFW Post 4819. He was also very active in Camp Fire Girls, and Boy Scouts of America. Spec was a loving Big Hearted man and he loved to dance, and had a great sense of humor. He will be greatly miss by all who knew him.
The legacy he leaves are two daughters, Sheila Willingham and husband Bill of Conroe, Texas, Stacy Andrews and husband Jackie of Hereford, two sons, Kelly Lea and wife Tammy of Highland Village, Texas and Kevin Lea and wife Cindi of Lubbock, three sisters, Shirley Stults of Archer City, Nelda Blevins of Grand Prairie, Texas, and Mary Cooper of Jacksboro, Texas, grandchildren, Brett, Brandi, Shay, Casey, Kelci, Tyler, Makenzi, Makenna, and Makurri, and great-grandchildren Avery, Eric, Brix, Carsyn, Walker, Grasen, Emilee, Claire and Weston, Mr. Lea was preceded in death by his parents, his wife Nita Lea and a daughter Cindy Lea.The family suggests memorials in Mr. Leas name be made to The VFW Scholarship Fund, 130 Veterans Park Drive, Hereford, Texas 79045
Obituary by Parkside Chapel Funeral Home
*Obituary Nita F. King Lea
Nita Lea, 61, of Hereford, died Saturday in Hereford.
Services were set for 2 p.m. Tuesday in First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Paul Land of First Christian Church, Canyon, officiating. Burial was in West Park Cemetery, by Gililland-Watson Funeral Home.
Mrs. Lea was executive director of Hereford Campfire before retiring.
She was born at Tahoka and had lived in Hereford since 1962. She married Lew Lea in 1951 in Salt Lake City, Utah.
Survivors are her husband; two sons, Kevin Lea of Rockwall and Kelly Lea of Mesquite; three daughters, Stacy Lea of Hereford, Cindy Bowery of Texico, N.M., and Sheila Martin of Lubbock; three brothers, Maurice King of Pocatello, Idaho, Charles King of Lamesa and Winthon Jones of Hereford, and six grandchildren.
(Published in The Hereford Brand, 93rd Year, Vol. No. 198, Deaf Smith County, Texas, Tuesday, April 12, 1994, Page 2)
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Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997
Name: Neita Francis King
Date of Birth: 11 Jun 1932
Gender: Female
Birth County: Lynn
Father's name: Ben Connie King
Mother's name: Winnie Frances Swaun
Roll Number: 1932_0004
Texas, Birth Certificates, 1903-1932
Name: Neita Francis King
Birth Date: 11 Jun 1932
Gender: Female
Birth Place: Tahoka, Lynn, Texas, USA
Father: Ben Cammie King
Father Birth Place: Tahoka, Texas
Mother: Winnie Francis Swann
Mother Birth Place: Texas
Mother Residence: Tahoka, Texas
Utah, Select Marriage Index, 1887-1985
Name: Nita Frances King
Gender: Female
Marriage Date: 12 Jun 1951
Marriage Place: Salt Lake, UT, USA
Spouse: Isaac Lewis Lea
Spouse Gender: Male
Certificate Number: A124023
Texas, Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: Nita Lea
Death Date: 9 Apr 1994
Death County: Deaf Smith
Gender: Female
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