Obituary from the Kerrville Daily Times, 6 November, 2012 issue:
Kerrville - Shirley Diane Douglas Webb was born in Woodward, Okla., on Feb 8, 1930, the daughter of O.A. Douglas and Jane (Carson) Douglas. She died on Nov. 3, 2012, at her home in Kerrville, Texas.
In 1938 the family moved to Kerrville, Texas, where her father managed a new grocery store, the Pure Food Sotre, on Earl Garrett Stree. She remembers that trip to Texas. The four of them rode in a borrowed coupe with no back seat but it was a trip made fun by her parents. Her father pointed out that when they crossed the Red River into Texas, the grass was green. It had been brown in Oklahoma.
Shirley's mother, Jane, was active in music clubs and directed the choir at the Kerrville Methodist Church. When World War II came along, Shirley's father enlisted and was stationed at Roswell, N.M., where he trained to become an air traffic controller in the Army Air Corps. After the war he was stationed at the International Airpot in Brownsville, Texas, as a government emmployee of the CAA and the family moved from Kerrville to Brownsville in the summer of 1945. Shirley attended Brownsville schools and Texas Southmost College. On Oct. 16, 1952, she married James Robert Webb.
She was a musician and was well-known locally in Brownsville as a church organist for over 25 years (serving at the Methodist, Presbyterian and Christian churches). She also served as a pianist who played for numerous local programs, plays, dance recitals, school band and choir soloists and theatre productions. Also in Brownsville, she worked as music director at radio station KBOR for five years and taught elementary school music at the Episcopal Day School for several years.
During her business career, she was a loan officer and Assistant Manager of Valley Federal Employees Federal Credit Union. She was past president of the Brownsville Boys Club, Camille Lightner Playhouse and Rio Grande Valley Music Festival.
In 1994, when Jim retired, they moved back to Kerrville and soon embarked on a new "career" of activities in genealogy and computer work. Shirley was webmaster of the Kerr County, Terry County and Haskell county, Texas Gen Web genealogy pages, and volunteered at the Kerr Regional History Center and Archives. She was a member of the Kerrville Genealogical Society where she served on it's board of directorsand was the newsletter editor for three years. Shirley and Jim were members of the Kerrville United Methodist Church.
Survivors are her husband of 60 years, James Robert Webb Sr; of Kerrville; daughter Vicki Web Hunter and husband, Robert of Las Cruces, N.M.;and son, James Robert "Bob" Webb Jr., of Corpus Christi, Texas.Also surviving are her sister, Dorothy E. Douglas of Fort Worth; and grandsons, David Hunter and wife, Trisha, of Las Cruces, N.M., Christopher Hunter and wife, Marit, of Kerrville, and granddaughter Eileen Hunter Caldwell and husband, Jake, of Roswell, N.M. Shirley is survived by three precious great-granddaughters, Jacie Caldwell, Emma Hunter, and Devyn Hunter.
Graveside services for Mrs. Webb will be at 2p.m. Thursday, Nov 8, at Garden of Memories in Kerrville, officiated by the Rev. Ray Altman.
The family invites you to send condolences at www.grimesfuneralchapels.com by selecting the "Send Condolences" link.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
Kerrville - Shirley Diane Douglas Webb was born in Woodward, Okla., on Feb 8, 1930, the daughter of O.A. Douglas and Jane (Carson) Douglas. She died on Nov. 3, 2012, at her home in Kerrville, Texas.
In 1938 the family moved to Kerrville, Texas, where her father managed a new grocery store, the Pure Food Sotre, on Earl Garrett Stree. She remembers that trip to Texas. The four of them rode in a borrowed coupe with no back seat but it was a trip made fun by her parents. Her father pointed out that when they crossed the Red River into Texas, the grass was green. It had been brown in Oklahoma.
Shirley's mother, Jane, was active in music clubs and directed the choir at the Kerrville Methodist Church. When World War II came along, Shirley's father enlisted and was stationed at Roswell, N.M., where he trained to become an air traffic controller in the Army Air Corps. After the war he was stationed at the International Airpot in Brownsville, Texas, as a government emmployee of the CAA and the family moved from Kerrville to Brownsville in the summer of 1945. Shirley attended Brownsville schools and Texas Southmost College. On Oct. 16, 1952, she married James Robert Webb.
She was a musician and was well-known locally in Brownsville as a church organist for over 25 years (serving at the Methodist, Presbyterian and Christian churches). She also served as a pianist who played for numerous local programs, plays, dance recitals, school band and choir soloists and theatre productions. Also in Brownsville, she worked as music director at radio station KBOR for five years and taught elementary school music at the Episcopal Day School for several years.
During her business career, she was a loan officer and Assistant Manager of Valley Federal Employees Federal Credit Union. She was past president of the Brownsville Boys Club, Camille Lightner Playhouse and Rio Grande Valley Music Festival.
In 1994, when Jim retired, they moved back to Kerrville and soon embarked on a new "career" of activities in genealogy and computer work. Shirley was webmaster of the Kerr County, Terry County and Haskell county, Texas Gen Web genealogy pages, and volunteered at the Kerr Regional History Center and Archives. She was a member of the Kerrville Genealogical Society where she served on it's board of directorsand was the newsletter editor for three years. Shirley and Jim were members of the Kerrville United Methodist Church.
Survivors are her husband of 60 years, James Robert Webb Sr; of Kerrville; daughter Vicki Web Hunter and husband, Robert of Las Cruces, N.M.;and son, James Robert "Bob" Webb Jr., of Corpus Christi, Texas.Also surviving are her sister, Dorothy E. Douglas of Fort Worth; and grandsons, David Hunter and wife, Trisha, of Las Cruces, N.M., Christopher Hunter and wife, Marit, of Kerrville, and granddaughter Eileen Hunter Caldwell and husband, Jake, of Roswell, N.M. Shirley is survived by three precious great-granddaughters, Jacie Caldwell, Emma Hunter, and Devyn Hunter.
Graveside services for Mrs. Webb will be at 2p.m. Thursday, Nov 8, at Garden of Memories in Kerrville, officiated by the Rev. Ray Altman.
The family invites you to send condolences at www.grimesfuneralchapels.com by selecting the "Send Condolences" link.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
Obituary from the Kerrville Daily Times, 6 November, 2012 issue:
Kerrville - Shirley Diane Douglas Webb was born in Woodward, Okla., on Feb 8, 1930, the daughter of O.A. Douglas and Jane (Carson) Douglas. She died on Nov. 3, 2012, at her home in Kerrville, Texas.
In 1938 the family moved to Kerrville, Texas, where her father managed a new grocery store, the Pure Food Sotre, on Earl Garrett Stree. She remembers that trip to Texas. The four of them rode in a borrowed coupe with no back seat but it was a trip made fun by her parents. Her father pointed out that when they crossed the Red River into Texas, the grass was green. It had been brown in Oklahoma.
Shirley's mother, Jane, was active in music clubs and directed the choir at the Kerrville Methodist Church. When World War II came along, Shirley's father enlisted and was stationed at Roswell, N.M., where he trained to become an air traffic controller in the Army Air Corps. After the war he was stationed at the International Airpot in Brownsville, Texas, as a government emmployee of the CAA and the family moved from Kerrville to Brownsville in the summer of 1945. Shirley attended Brownsville schools and Texas Southmost College. On Oct. 16, 1952, she married James Robert Webb.
She was a musician and was well-known locally in Brownsville as a church organist for over 25 years (serving at the Methodist, Presbyterian and Christian churches). She also served as a pianist who played for numerous local programs, plays, dance recitals, school band and choir soloists and theatre productions. Also in Brownsville, she worked as music director at radio station KBOR for five years and taught elementary school music at the Episcopal Day School for several years.
During her business career, she was a loan officer and Assistant Manager of Valley Federal Employees Federal Credit Union. She was past president of the Brownsville Boys Club, Camille Lightner Playhouse and Rio Grande Valley Music Festival.
In 1994, when Jim retired, they moved back to Kerrville and soon embarked on a new "career" of activities in genealogy and computer work. Shirley was webmaster of the Kerr County, Terry County and Haskell county, Texas Gen Web genealogy pages, and volunteered at the Kerr Regional History Center and Archives. She was a member of the Kerrville Genealogical Society where she served on it's board of directorsand was the newsletter editor for three years. Shirley and Jim were members of the Kerrville United Methodist Church.
Survivors are her husband of 60 years, James Robert Webb Sr; of Kerrville; daughter Vicki Web Hunter and husband, Robert of Las Cruces, N.M.;and son, James Robert "Bob" Webb Jr., of Corpus Christi, Texas.Also surviving are her sister, Dorothy E. Douglas of Fort Worth; and grandsons, David Hunter and wife, Trisha, of Las Cruces, N.M., Christopher Hunter and wife, Marit, of Kerrville, and granddaughter Eileen Hunter Caldwell and husband, Jake, of Roswell, N.M. Shirley is survived by three precious great-granddaughters, Jacie Caldwell, Emma Hunter, and Devyn Hunter.
Graveside services for Mrs. Webb will be at 2p.m. Thursday, Nov 8, at Garden of Memories in Kerrville, officiated by the Rev. Ray Altman.
The family invites you to send condolences at www.grimesfuneralchapels.com by selecting the "Send Condolences" link.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
Kerrville - Shirley Diane Douglas Webb was born in Woodward, Okla., on Feb 8, 1930, the daughter of O.A. Douglas and Jane (Carson) Douglas. She died on Nov. 3, 2012, at her home in Kerrville, Texas.
In 1938 the family moved to Kerrville, Texas, where her father managed a new grocery store, the Pure Food Sotre, on Earl Garrett Stree. She remembers that trip to Texas. The four of them rode in a borrowed coupe with no back seat but it was a trip made fun by her parents. Her father pointed out that when they crossed the Red River into Texas, the grass was green. It had been brown in Oklahoma.
Shirley's mother, Jane, was active in music clubs and directed the choir at the Kerrville Methodist Church. When World War II came along, Shirley's father enlisted and was stationed at Roswell, N.M., where he trained to become an air traffic controller in the Army Air Corps. After the war he was stationed at the International Airpot in Brownsville, Texas, as a government emmployee of the CAA and the family moved from Kerrville to Brownsville in the summer of 1945. Shirley attended Brownsville schools and Texas Southmost College. On Oct. 16, 1952, she married James Robert Webb.
She was a musician and was well-known locally in Brownsville as a church organist for over 25 years (serving at the Methodist, Presbyterian and Christian churches). She also served as a pianist who played for numerous local programs, plays, dance recitals, school band and choir soloists and theatre productions. Also in Brownsville, she worked as music director at radio station KBOR for five years and taught elementary school music at the Episcopal Day School for several years.
During her business career, she was a loan officer and Assistant Manager of Valley Federal Employees Federal Credit Union. She was past president of the Brownsville Boys Club, Camille Lightner Playhouse and Rio Grande Valley Music Festival.
In 1994, when Jim retired, they moved back to Kerrville and soon embarked on a new "career" of activities in genealogy and computer work. Shirley was webmaster of the Kerr County, Terry County and Haskell county, Texas Gen Web genealogy pages, and volunteered at the Kerr Regional History Center and Archives. She was a member of the Kerrville Genealogical Society where she served on it's board of directorsand was the newsletter editor for three years. Shirley and Jim were members of the Kerrville United Methodist Church.
Survivors are her husband of 60 years, James Robert Webb Sr; of Kerrville; daughter Vicki Web Hunter and husband, Robert of Las Cruces, N.M.;and son, James Robert "Bob" Webb Jr., of Corpus Christi, Texas.Also surviving are her sister, Dorothy E. Douglas of Fort Worth; and grandsons, David Hunter and wife, Trisha, of Las Cruces, N.M., Christopher Hunter and wife, Marit, of Kerrville, and granddaughter Eileen Hunter Caldwell and husband, Jake, of Roswell, N.M. Shirley is survived by three precious great-granddaughters, Jacie Caldwell, Emma Hunter, and Devyn Hunter.
Graveside services for Mrs. Webb will be at 2p.m. Thursday, Nov 8, at Garden of Memories in Kerrville, officiated by the Rev. Ray Altman.
The family invites you to send condolences at www.grimesfuneralchapels.com by selecting the "Send Condolences" link.
Funeral arrangements are entrusted to Grimes Funeral Chapels of Kerrville.
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