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Doris Gertrude <I>Adams</I> Metcalf

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Doris Gertrude Adams Metcalf

Birth
Stonewall County, Texas, USA
Death
20 Apr 2003 (aged 72)
Tulia, Swisher County, Texas, USA
Burial
Tulia, Swisher County, Texas, USA
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I-370A-4
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TULIA - Doris Adams Metcalf, 72, died Sunday, April 20, 2003.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Charles Davenport, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery by Wallace Funeral Home.
Mrs. Metcalf was born July 6, 1930, in Stonewall County to Lillie and T.C. Adams Sr. She grew up in Wrights Chapel Community and graduated from Aspermont High School in 1948.
She moved to Tulia in 1957. She was a member of First Baptist Church and a former member of the Tulia Progressive Study Club. She was an avid bowler. She loved her children and grandchildren and was totally devoted to all their sporting activities.
She was know by her grandchildren's teammates as "Nanny". She will be sorely missed by numerous friends and family who received her famous peanut brittle at Christmas time.
Her greatest accomplishment was raising a child with special needs to live a very normal life against many obstacles. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Nancy Metcalf Merritt; her parents; three brothers; and four sisters.
Survivors include a daughter, Sherry Kelley and husband, Ken, of Amarillo; a son, Mike Metcalf and wife, Janet, of Amarillo; a daughter of the heart, Missy Stringer of Lubbock; two sisters, Louise Johnson of Abilene and Maurene Lay of Odessa; two brothers, Gerald Adams of Midland and Herman Adams of San Marcos; and four grandchildren, Jackson Bryan Kelley, Taylor Kendall Kelley, Rebecca Diane Metcalf and Casey Bryan Metcalf, all of Amarillo.

TULIA - Doris Adams Metcalf, 72, died Sunday, April 20, 2003.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Charles Davenport, pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Rose Hill Cemetery by Wallace Funeral Home.
Mrs. Metcalf was born July 6, 1930, in Stonewall County to Lillie and T.C. Adams Sr. She grew up in Wrights Chapel Community and graduated from Aspermont High School in 1948.
She moved to Tulia in 1957. She was a member of First Baptist Church and a former member of the Tulia Progressive Study Club. She was an avid bowler. She loved her children and grandchildren and was totally devoted to all their sporting activities.
She was know by her grandchildren's teammates as "Nanny". She will be sorely missed by numerous friends and family who received her famous peanut brittle at Christmas time.
Her greatest accomplishment was raising a child with special needs to live a very normal life against many obstacles. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Nancy Metcalf Merritt; her parents; three brothers; and four sisters.
Survivors include a daughter, Sherry Kelley and husband, Ken, of Amarillo; a son, Mike Metcalf and wife, Janet, of Amarillo; a daughter of the heart, Missy Stringer of Lubbock; two sisters, Louise Johnson of Abilene and Maurene Lay of Odessa; two brothers, Gerald Adams of Midland and Herman Adams of San Marcos; and four grandchildren, Jackson Bryan Kelley, Taylor Kendall Kelley, Rebecca Diane Metcalf and Casey Bryan Metcalf, all of Amarillo.

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