Services for Frankie Widner, 72, of Tyler will be on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. at Stewart Family Funeral Home Chapel.
Burial will follow in Cathedral in the Pines Cemetery in Tyler under direction of Stewart Family Funeral Home.
Mrs. Widner passed away Feb. 16, 2013, in Tyler.
She was born Aug. 22, 1940, in Canadian to Samuel and Matilda Chaffin.
Frankie retired from the pharmacy department of Mother Frances Hospital after 25 years. She taught sign language as a deaf instructor for 30 years in the Continuing Education Sign Language Program, which led to the establishment of the current Interpreter Training Program at TJC by Dr. Judy Barnes.
Frankie was a member of the East Texas Deaf Ladies Club and former president and member of the Tyler Metro Association for the Deaf. She attended Shiloh Road Church of Christ. Her beautiful spirit and her sweet, precious smile touched so many lives. She loved her family very much and was proud of each one. She will be deeply missed.
Frankie was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her loving family including her husband, Bobbye Widner; daughters, Cynthia Buchanan and Darlene Winsett; sister, Mildred Thrasher; grandchildren, Christy Buchanan, Blake Widner, Preston Winsett and Piper Winsett; and by great-grandchildren, Kent Clark and Jaysen Hicks.
Visitation is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, at Stewart Family Funeral Home, 7525 Old Jacksonville Highway, in Tyler.
In lieu of flowers, donations in honor of Frankie Widner may be made to the Frankie S. Chaffin Widner Scholarship fund for the deaf at TJC..
Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph from February 22 to February 23, 2013
Burial will follow in Cathedral in the Pines Cemetery in Tyler under direction of Stewart Family Funeral Home.
Mrs. Widner passed away Feb. 16, 2013, in Tyler.
She was born Aug. 22, 1940, in Canadian to Samuel and Matilda Chaffin.
Frankie retired from the pharmacy department of Mother Frances Hospital after 25 years. She taught sign language as a deaf instructor for 30 years in the Continuing Education Sign Language Program, which led to the establishment of the current Interpreter Training Program at TJC by Dr. Judy Barnes.
Frankie was a member of the East Texas Deaf Ladies Club and former president and member of the Tyler Metro Association for the Deaf. She attended Shiloh Road Church of Christ. Her beautiful spirit and her sweet, precious smile touched so many lives. She loved her family very much and was proud of each one. She will be deeply missed.
Frankie was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her loving family including her husband, Bobbye Widner; daughters, Cynthia Buchanan and Darlene Winsett; sister, Mildred Thrasher; grandchildren, Christy Buchanan, Blake Widner, Preston Winsett and Piper Winsett; and by great-grandchildren, Kent Clark and Jaysen Hicks.
Visitation is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, at Stewart Family Funeral Home, 7525 Old Jacksonville Highway, in Tyler.
In lieu of flowers, donations in honor of Frankie Widner may be made to the Frankie S. Chaffin Widner Scholarship fund for the deaf at TJC..
Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph from February 22 to February 23, 2013
Services for Frankie Widner, 72, of Tyler will be on Sunday, Feb. 24, 2013, at 1:30 p.m. at Stewart Family Funeral Home Chapel.
Burial will follow in Cathedral in the Pines Cemetery in Tyler under direction of Stewart Family Funeral Home.
Mrs. Widner passed away Feb. 16, 2013, in Tyler.
She was born Aug. 22, 1940, in Canadian to Samuel and Matilda Chaffin.
Frankie retired from the pharmacy department of Mother Frances Hospital after 25 years. She taught sign language as a deaf instructor for 30 years in the Continuing Education Sign Language Program, which led to the establishment of the current Interpreter Training Program at TJC by Dr. Judy Barnes.
Frankie was a member of the East Texas Deaf Ladies Club and former president and member of the Tyler Metro Association for the Deaf. She attended Shiloh Road Church of Christ. Her beautiful spirit and her sweet, precious smile touched so many lives. She loved her family very much and was proud of each one. She will be deeply missed.
Frankie was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her loving family including her husband, Bobbye Widner; daughters, Cynthia Buchanan and Darlene Winsett; sister, Mildred Thrasher; grandchildren, Christy Buchanan, Blake Widner, Preston Winsett and Piper Winsett; and by great-grandchildren, Kent Clark and Jaysen Hicks.
Visitation is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, at Stewart Family Funeral Home, 7525 Old Jacksonville Highway, in Tyler.
In lieu of flowers, donations in honor of Frankie Widner may be made to the Frankie S. Chaffin Widner Scholarship fund for the deaf at TJC..
Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph from February 22 to February 23, 2013
Burial will follow in Cathedral in the Pines Cemetery in Tyler under direction of Stewart Family Funeral Home.
Mrs. Widner passed away Feb. 16, 2013, in Tyler.
She was born Aug. 22, 1940, in Canadian to Samuel and Matilda Chaffin.
Frankie retired from the pharmacy department of Mother Frances Hospital after 25 years. She taught sign language as a deaf instructor for 30 years in the Continuing Education Sign Language Program, which led to the establishment of the current Interpreter Training Program at TJC by Dr. Judy Barnes.
Frankie was a member of the East Texas Deaf Ladies Club and former president and member of the Tyler Metro Association for the Deaf. She attended Shiloh Road Church of Christ. Her beautiful spirit and her sweet, precious smile touched so many lives. She loved her family very much and was proud of each one. She will be deeply missed.
Frankie was preceded in death by her parents. She is survived by her loving family including her husband, Bobbye Widner; daughters, Cynthia Buchanan and Darlene Winsett; sister, Mildred Thrasher; grandchildren, Christy Buchanan, Blake Widner, Preston Winsett and Piper Winsett; and by great-grandchildren, Kent Clark and Jaysen Hicks.
Visitation is scheduled from 6 to 8 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 23, 2013, at Stewart Family Funeral Home, 7525 Old Jacksonville Highway, in Tyler.
In lieu of flowers, donations in honor of Frankie Widner may be made to the Frankie S. Chaffin Widner Scholarship fund for the deaf at TJC..
Published in Tyler Morning Telegraph from February 22 to February 23, 2013
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