Lillian was born in Chocktaw Co, OK and grew up in Lubbock, Texas, graduating from Texas Tech Univ. She married Willis Breshears Dec 27, 1931 in Lubbock, TX. By 1940, they moved to Colorado where she became an accomplished regional artist, owning and operating "Summit Art Gallery", in Dillon, CO. One of her oil paintings "Big Buck" is a great image of a large mule deer buck sneaking down a forest trail. She accurately depicts the head-down attitude of a large buck cautiously advancing. Today (2020), her work is considered vintage collectibles.
Obit:
Lillian Breshears Services for Lillian Breshears, 75, of 3009 28th St., will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home with Vernon Stephens officiating. Buria! will be in Dillon Cemetery in Dillon, Colo., under direction of Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home. She died at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday at Methodist Hospital after a brief illness. , Born March 4, 1907, in Boswell City, Okla., she moved to Lubbock in May from Dillon. She had owned and operated Summit Art Gallery in Dillon. She previously had lived in Levelland for 30 years. She was a member of the first class to enroll at Texas Tech . University and graduated in 1931 with a degree in education. She later taught school in Portales, N.M. She married Willis Breshears Dec. 27, 1931. in Portales. He died Feb. 23. 1978. She was a member of the Christian Church. Survivors include a daughter, Fay Thornton of Glenwood Springs, Colo.; two brothers, Jack Nelson of Lubbock and Joe Nelson of Fort Myers, Fla.; a sister, Mrs. Eleanor McAlister of Portales; two grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Her family suggests memorials to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Contributor: Martha Ratliff (47567797) •
Obit:
Lillian Breshears Services for Lillian Breshears, 75, of 3009 28th St., will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home with Vernon Stephens officiating. Buria! will be in Dillon Cemetery in Dillon, Colo., under direction of Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home. She died at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday at Methodist Hospital after a brief illness. , Born March 4, 1907, in Boswell City, Okla., she moved to Lubbock in May from Dillon. She had owned and operated Summit Art Gallery in Dillon. She previously had lived in Levelland for 30 years. She was a member of the first class to enroll at Texas Tech . University and graduated in 1931 with a degree in education. She later taught school in Portales, N.M. She married Willis Breshears Dec. 27, 1931. in Portales. He died Feb. 23. 1978. She was a member of the Christian Church. Survivors include a daughter, Fay Thornton of Glenwood Springs, Colo.; two brothers, Jack Nelson of Lubbock and Joe Nelson of Fort Myers, Fla.; a sister, Mrs. Eleanor McAlister of Portales; two grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Her family suggests memorials to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Contributor: Martha Ratliff (47567797) •
Lillian was born in Chocktaw Co, OK and grew up in Lubbock, Texas, graduating from Texas Tech Univ. She married Willis Breshears Dec 27, 1931 in Lubbock, TX. By 1940, they moved to Colorado where she became an accomplished regional artist, owning and operating "Summit Art Gallery", in Dillon, CO. One of her oil paintings "Big Buck" is a great image of a large mule deer buck sneaking down a forest trail. She accurately depicts the head-down attitude of a large buck cautiously advancing. Today (2020), her work is considered vintage collectibles.
Obit:
Lillian Breshears Services for Lillian Breshears, 75, of 3009 28th St., will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home with Vernon Stephens officiating. Buria! will be in Dillon Cemetery in Dillon, Colo., under direction of Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home. She died at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday at Methodist Hospital after a brief illness. , Born March 4, 1907, in Boswell City, Okla., she moved to Lubbock in May from Dillon. She had owned and operated Summit Art Gallery in Dillon. She previously had lived in Levelland for 30 years. She was a member of the first class to enroll at Texas Tech . University and graduated in 1931 with a degree in education. She later taught school in Portales, N.M. She married Willis Breshears Dec. 27, 1931. in Portales. He died Feb. 23. 1978. She was a member of the Christian Church. Survivors include a daughter, Fay Thornton of Glenwood Springs, Colo.; two brothers, Jack Nelson of Lubbock and Joe Nelson of Fort Myers, Fla.; a sister, Mrs. Eleanor McAlister of Portales; two grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Her family suggests memorials to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Contributor: Martha Ratliff (47567797) •
Obit:
Lillian Breshears Services for Lillian Breshears, 75, of 3009 28th St., will be at 10:30 a.m. Saturday at Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home with Vernon Stephens officiating. Buria! will be in Dillon Cemetery in Dillon, Colo., under direction of Franklin-Bartley Funeral Home. She died at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday at Methodist Hospital after a brief illness. , Born March 4, 1907, in Boswell City, Okla., she moved to Lubbock in May from Dillon. She had owned and operated Summit Art Gallery in Dillon. She previously had lived in Levelland for 30 years. She was a member of the first class to enroll at Texas Tech . University and graduated in 1931 with a degree in education. She later taught school in Portales, N.M. She married Willis Breshears Dec. 27, 1931. in Portales. He died Feb. 23. 1978. She was a member of the Christian Church. Survivors include a daughter, Fay Thornton of Glenwood Springs, Colo.; two brothers, Jack Nelson of Lubbock and Joe Nelson of Fort Myers, Fla.; a sister, Mrs. Eleanor McAlister of Portales; two grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren. Her family suggests memorials to the Muscular Dystrophy Association.
Contributor: Martha Ratliff (47567797) •
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