ABBIE MAUDE WHITTENBURG THOMAS
Abbie Maude Whittenburg Thomas was born in Falfurrias, Texas on Dec. 7, 1912. She moved with her family to Sweetwater, Texas. She graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1930.
She married Jeptha Tennison Whorton on April 5, 1931. He died May 30, 1964; in Tahoka, Texas, where the family had moved from Sweetwater. In 1943, she owned and operated Abbie's Fashion Shop, which she closed after her husband's death in 1964, and moved to Lubbock, Texas.
She entertained at many functions by acting her solo comedy skit making people laugh. In 1966, she became a full-time Agent with the Continental Casualty Company and American General Life Insurance Co. She retired when she married Lynson Easton Thomas, June 16, 1984.
She was an active member of the Trinity Church, Shadow Hills Ladies Golf Association, 49'ers and Queens 'en Kings Duplicate Bridge Clubs. At age 81 she joined the Carollon Creative Writing Class. She has several things published in the Reminisce Magazine, The Tomorrow Never Knows, The National Library of Poetry, and From Flappers to Flivvers.
She moved to Corinth, Texas in December 2006 to be closer to her family. Here she formed the Whataburger Back Booth Club (WBBBC) and continued to welcome people with a friendly smile, warm laugh and funny story. She served as its president.
She was a wonderful mother, daughter, sister, grandmother and friend. She will truly be missed, but was loved by all.
Visitation was held Thursday Nov. 11, from 6-8 p.m. at DeBerry Funeral Directors. Services was held Friday, Nov. 12, at 10 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church in Denton, Texas. Rev. John Peel and Jeffrey Whorton officiated the service.
Graveside services were held Friday, Nov. 12, at 4:30 p.m. in Sweetwater, Texas.
She is survived by a daughter, Tommie Louise Whorton Beckwith of Corinth, Texas; and son James Tennison Whorton, (University Park) of Dallas Texas; seven grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren; and one great-great grandchild.
Memorials may be made to Sweetwater Cemetery.
She is preceded in death by her sister Fannie Louisa Suffel; and brother Thomas Scales Whittenburg.
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From First 100 Years Nolan County Texas, Pages 398-399, published in 1985 by the Nolan County Genealogical Society (out of print, but transcribed with permission):
FANNIE LOUISA WHITTENBURG-ABBIE MAUDE WHITTENBURG
Fannie Louisa Whittenburg was four years of age and Abbie was two when they came to Nolan County with their parents, Tom Whittenburg and Lucy Nunn. Tom and Lucy had been absent from the county for five years, living in Falfurrias (Brooks County, Texas) where the girls were born. Their childhood was spent on the Whittenburg farm north of Sweetwater on the Roby Highway. Both were members of the First Christian Church and graduated from Sweetwater High School, Fannie in 1927 and Abbie in 1930.
In 1921, when Fannie was eleven, she became ill with osteomelitis, a purulent inflammation of the bone in her knee. This illness is significant to the history of Nolan County because there was no hospital and Drs. A.A. Chapman and L.O. Dudgeon had only recently installed the first X-ray machine in Sweetwater in their offices. They were able, by its use, to diagnose this infection. The surgery was performed in the living room of the family home with Tom's nephew, Dr. Henry Bennett of Lamesa, administering the anesthetic (chloroform). A sheet was tacked above the hospital table to prevent dust and contamination.
After high school, Fannie attended Mary Hardin-Baylor and Southwest Texas State Universities and Our Lady of the Lake (San Antonio). She worked in public schools of Texas as a teacher and counselor for 37 years, retiring in 1973 to become an artist and write her families' histories.
Fannie was married in 1935 to Paul Henry Suffel of Tuleta, Texas. He was a graduate of Texas A&M and a teacher of vocational agriculture. They have one son, Richard Paul Suffel of Walker Energy in Houston, and two grandsons, Sean and Scott.
Abbie took jobs with Mr. McCorkle in the auto finance business, Chrysler Corporation, and as a typist in Sweetwater. She was married in 1931 to Jeptha T. Whorton, who was employed by Texas Electric Service Company, Eskota Station. He was transferred in 1933 to Wink, Texas, where both their children, Tommie Louise and James Tennison, were born. In 1943, they moved to Tahoka, Texas, where Jep worked for an implement company, farmed and did contracting and building houses. Abbie studied and kept General Motors double entry books for 10 years, owned and operated her own dress shop, "Abbie's Fashion Shop", for 16 years until the fatal auto accident which took Jep's life on 30 May 1964.
Abbie then moved to Lubbock and got her insurance and state and national securities licenses after attending Louisiana State University. She was the first woman with Continental Casualty company to produce $25,000 in premium dollars her first year in Lubbock.
Abbie's family includes children Tommie Louise Beckwith (divorced), who is a financial aids officer at Texas Tech University; Byron and son Christopher; Karon Bybee and children Stephanie, Bradley, Andy and Kristi; and son James Tennison Whorton who has sons Jeffrey and Jay.
Lynson Easton Thomas, Jr., an independent oil wildcatter, and Abbie were married 16 June 1984 in Lubbock.
Fannie and Abbie own property on Paradise Point, Lake Buchanan, Tow, Texas, and when Abbie's house (which L.E. has designed so beautifully for the lots) is built, they will be living near each other for the first time since they grew up in the family home in Sweetwater.
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Abbie Maude Whittenburg Thomas was born in Falfurrias, Texas on Dec. 7, 1912. She moved with her family to Sweetwater, Texas. She graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1930.
She married Jeptha Tennison Whorton on April 5, 1931. He died May 30, 1964; in Tahoka, Texas, where the family had moved from Sweetwater. In 1943, she owned and operated Abbie's Fashion Shop, which she closed after her husband's death in 1964, and moved to Lubbock, Texas.
She entertained at many functions by acting her solo comedy skit making people laugh. In 1966, she became a full-time Agent with the Continental Casualty Company and American General Life Insurance Co. She retired when she married Lynson Easton Thomas, June 16, 1984.
She was an active member of the Trinity Church, Shadow Hills Ladies Golf Association, 49'ers and Queens 'en Kings Duplicate Bridge Clubs. At age 81 she joined the Carollon Creative Writing Class. She has several things published in the Reminisce Magazine, The Tomorrow Never Knows, The National Library of Poetry, and From Flappers to Flivvers.
She moved to Corinth, Texas in December 2006 to be closer to her family. Here she formed the Whataburger Back Booth Club (WBBBC) and continued to welcome people with a friendly smile, warm laugh and funny story. She served as its president.
She was a wonderful mother, daughter, sister, grandmother and friend. She will truly be missed, but was loved by all.
Visitation was held Thursday Nov. 11, from 6-8 p.m. at DeBerry Funeral Directors. Services was held Friday, Nov. 12, at 10 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church in Denton, Texas. Rev. John Peel and Jeffrey Whorton officiated the service.
Graveside services were held Friday, Nov. 12, at 4:30 p.m. in Sweetwater, Texas.
She is survived by a daughter, Tommie Louise Whorton Beckwith of Corinth, Texas; and son James Tennison Whorton, (University Park) of Dallas Texas; seven grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren; and one great-great grandchild.
Memorials may be made to Sweetwater Cemetery.
She is preceded in death by her sister Fannie Louisa Suffel; and brother Thomas Scales Whittenburg.
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From First 100 Years Nolan County Texas, Pages 398-399, published in 1985 by the Nolan County Genealogical Society (out of print, but transcribed with permission):
FANNIE LOUISA WHITTENBURG-ABBIE MAUDE WHITTENBURG
Fannie Louisa Whittenburg was four years of age and Abbie was two when they came to Nolan County with their parents, Tom Whittenburg and Lucy Nunn. Tom and Lucy had been absent from the county for five years, living in Falfurrias (Brooks County, Texas) where the girls were born. Their childhood was spent on the Whittenburg farm north of Sweetwater on the Roby Highway. Both were members of the First Christian Church and graduated from Sweetwater High School, Fannie in 1927 and Abbie in 1930.
In 1921, when Fannie was eleven, she became ill with osteomelitis, a purulent inflammation of the bone in her knee. This illness is significant to the history of Nolan County because there was no hospital and Drs. A.A. Chapman and L.O. Dudgeon had only recently installed the first X-ray machine in Sweetwater in their offices. They were able, by its use, to diagnose this infection. The surgery was performed in the living room of the family home with Tom's nephew, Dr. Henry Bennett of Lamesa, administering the anesthetic (chloroform). A sheet was tacked above the hospital table to prevent dust and contamination.
After high school, Fannie attended Mary Hardin-Baylor and Southwest Texas State Universities and Our Lady of the Lake (San Antonio). She worked in public schools of Texas as a teacher and counselor for 37 years, retiring in 1973 to become an artist and write her families' histories.
Fannie was married in 1935 to Paul Henry Suffel of Tuleta, Texas. He was a graduate of Texas A&M and a teacher of vocational agriculture. They have one son, Richard Paul Suffel of Walker Energy in Houston, and two grandsons, Sean and Scott.
Abbie took jobs with Mr. McCorkle in the auto finance business, Chrysler Corporation, and as a typist in Sweetwater. She was married in 1931 to Jeptha T. Whorton, who was employed by Texas Electric Service Company, Eskota Station. He was transferred in 1933 to Wink, Texas, where both their children, Tommie Louise and James Tennison, were born. In 1943, they moved to Tahoka, Texas, where Jep worked for an implement company, farmed and did contracting and building houses. Abbie studied and kept General Motors double entry books for 10 years, owned and operated her own dress shop, "Abbie's Fashion Shop", for 16 years until the fatal auto accident which took Jep's life on 30 May 1964.
Abbie then moved to Lubbock and got her insurance and state and national securities licenses after attending Louisiana State University. She was the first woman with Continental Casualty company to produce $25,000 in premium dollars her first year in Lubbock.
Abbie's family includes children Tommie Louise Beckwith (divorced), who is a financial aids officer at Texas Tech University; Byron and son Christopher; Karon Bybee and children Stephanie, Bradley, Andy and Kristi; and son James Tennison Whorton who has sons Jeffrey and Jay.
Lynson Easton Thomas, Jr., an independent oil wildcatter, and Abbie were married 16 June 1984 in Lubbock.
Fannie and Abbie own property on Paradise Point, Lake Buchanan, Tow, Texas, and when Abbie's house (which L.E. has designed so beautifully for the lots) is built, they will be living near each other for the first time since they grew up in the family home in Sweetwater.
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ABBIE MAUDE WHITTENBURG THOMAS
Abbie Maude Whittenburg Thomas was born in Falfurrias, Texas on Dec. 7, 1912. She moved with her family to Sweetwater, Texas. She graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1930.
She married Jeptha Tennison Whorton on April 5, 1931. He died May 30, 1964; in Tahoka, Texas, where the family had moved from Sweetwater. In 1943, she owned and operated Abbie's Fashion Shop, which she closed after her husband's death in 1964, and moved to Lubbock, Texas.
She entertained at many functions by acting her solo comedy skit making people laugh. In 1966, she became a full-time Agent with the Continental Casualty Company and American General Life Insurance Co. She retired when she married Lynson Easton Thomas, June 16, 1984.
She was an active member of the Trinity Church, Shadow Hills Ladies Golf Association, 49'ers and Queens 'en Kings Duplicate Bridge Clubs. At age 81 she joined the Carollon Creative Writing Class. She has several things published in the Reminisce Magazine, The Tomorrow Never Knows, The National Library of Poetry, and From Flappers to Flivvers.
She moved to Corinth, Texas in December 2006 to be closer to her family. Here she formed the Whataburger Back Booth Club (WBBBC) and continued to welcome people with a friendly smile, warm laugh and funny story. She served as its president.
She was a wonderful mother, daughter, sister, grandmother and friend. She will truly be missed, but was loved by all.
Visitation was held Thursday Nov. 11, from 6-8 p.m. at DeBerry Funeral Directors. Services was held Friday, Nov. 12, at 10 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church in Denton, Texas. Rev. John Peel and Jeffrey Whorton officiated the service.
Graveside services were held Friday, Nov. 12, at 4:30 p.m. in Sweetwater, Texas.
She is survived by a daughter, Tommie Louise Whorton Beckwith of Corinth, Texas; and son James Tennison Whorton, (University Park) of Dallas Texas; seven grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren; and one great-great grandchild.
Memorials may be made to Sweetwater Cemetery.
She is preceded in death by her sister Fannie Louisa Suffel; and brother Thomas Scales Whittenburg.
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From First 100 Years Nolan County Texas, Pages 398-399, published in 1985 by the Nolan County Genealogical Society (out of print, but transcribed with permission):
FANNIE LOUISA WHITTENBURG-ABBIE MAUDE WHITTENBURG
Fannie Louisa Whittenburg was four years of age and Abbie was two when they came to Nolan County with their parents, Tom Whittenburg and Lucy Nunn. Tom and Lucy had been absent from the county for five years, living in Falfurrias (Brooks County, Texas) where the girls were born. Their childhood was spent on the Whittenburg farm north of Sweetwater on the Roby Highway. Both were members of the First Christian Church and graduated from Sweetwater High School, Fannie in 1927 and Abbie in 1930.
In 1921, when Fannie was eleven, she became ill with osteomelitis, a purulent inflammation of the bone in her knee. This illness is significant to the history of Nolan County because there was no hospital and Drs. A.A. Chapman and L.O. Dudgeon had only recently installed the first X-ray machine in Sweetwater in their offices. They were able, by its use, to diagnose this infection. The surgery was performed in the living room of the family home with Tom's nephew, Dr. Henry Bennett of Lamesa, administering the anesthetic (chloroform). A sheet was tacked above the hospital table to prevent dust and contamination.
After high school, Fannie attended Mary Hardin-Baylor and Southwest Texas State Universities and Our Lady of the Lake (San Antonio). She worked in public schools of Texas as a teacher and counselor for 37 years, retiring in 1973 to become an artist and write her families' histories.
Fannie was married in 1935 to Paul Henry Suffel of Tuleta, Texas. He was a graduate of Texas A&M and a teacher of vocational agriculture. They have one son, Richard Paul Suffel of Walker Energy in Houston, and two grandsons, Sean and Scott.
Abbie took jobs with Mr. McCorkle in the auto finance business, Chrysler Corporation, and as a typist in Sweetwater. She was married in 1931 to Jeptha T. Whorton, who was employed by Texas Electric Service Company, Eskota Station. He was transferred in 1933 to Wink, Texas, where both their children, Tommie Louise and James Tennison, were born. In 1943, they moved to Tahoka, Texas, where Jep worked for an implement company, farmed and did contracting and building houses. Abbie studied and kept General Motors double entry books for 10 years, owned and operated her own dress shop, "Abbie's Fashion Shop", for 16 years until the fatal auto accident which took Jep's life on 30 May 1964.
Abbie then moved to Lubbock and got her insurance and state and national securities licenses after attending Louisiana State University. She was the first woman with Continental Casualty company to produce $25,000 in premium dollars her first year in Lubbock.
Abbie's family includes children Tommie Louise Beckwith (divorced), who is a financial aids officer at Texas Tech University; Byron and son Christopher; Karon Bybee and children Stephanie, Bradley, Andy and Kristi; and son James Tennison Whorton who has sons Jeffrey and Jay.
Lynson Easton Thomas, Jr., an independent oil wildcatter, and Abbie were married 16 June 1984 in Lubbock.
Fannie and Abbie own property on Paradise Point, Lake Buchanan, Tow, Texas, and when Abbie's house (which L.E. has designed so beautifully for the lots) is built, they will be living near each other for the first time since they grew up in the family home in Sweetwater.
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Abbie Maude Whittenburg Thomas was born in Falfurrias, Texas on Dec. 7, 1912. She moved with her family to Sweetwater, Texas. She graduated from Sweetwater High School in 1930.
She married Jeptha Tennison Whorton on April 5, 1931. He died May 30, 1964; in Tahoka, Texas, where the family had moved from Sweetwater. In 1943, she owned and operated Abbie's Fashion Shop, which she closed after her husband's death in 1964, and moved to Lubbock, Texas.
She entertained at many functions by acting her solo comedy skit making people laugh. In 1966, she became a full-time Agent with the Continental Casualty Company and American General Life Insurance Co. She retired when she married Lynson Easton Thomas, June 16, 1984.
She was an active member of the Trinity Church, Shadow Hills Ladies Golf Association, 49'ers and Queens 'en Kings Duplicate Bridge Clubs. At age 81 she joined the Carollon Creative Writing Class. She has several things published in the Reminisce Magazine, The Tomorrow Never Knows, The National Library of Poetry, and From Flappers to Flivvers.
She moved to Corinth, Texas in December 2006 to be closer to her family. Here she formed the Whataburger Back Booth Club (WBBBC) and continued to welcome people with a friendly smile, warm laugh and funny story. She served as its president.
She was a wonderful mother, daughter, sister, grandmother and friend. She will truly be missed, but was loved by all.
Visitation was held Thursday Nov. 11, from 6-8 p.m. at DeBerry Funeral Directors. Services was held Friday, Nov. 12, at 10 a.m. at Trinity United Methodist Church in Denton, Texas. Rev. John Peel and Jeffrey Whorton officiated the service.
Graveside services were held Friday, Nov. 12, at 4:30 p.m. in Sweetwater, Texas.
She is survived by a daughter, Tommie Louise Whorton Beckwith of Corinth, Texas; and son James Tennison Whorton, (University Park) of Dallas Texas; seven grandchildren; and 18 great-grandchildren; and one great-great grandchild.
Memorials may be made to Sweetwater Cemetery.
She is preceded in death by her sister Fannie Louisa Suffel; and brother Thomas Scales Whittenburg.
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From First 100 Years Nolan County Texas, Pages 398-399, published in 1985 by the Nolan County Genealogical Society (out of print, but transcribed with permission):
FANNIE LOUISA WHITTENBURG-ABBIE MAUDE WHITTENBURG
Fannie Louisa Whittenburg was four years of age and Abbie was two when they came to Nolan County with their parents, Tom Whittenburg and Lucy Nunn. Tom and Lucy had been absent from the county for five years, living in Falfurrias (Brooks County, Texas) where the girls were born. Their childhood was spent on the Whittenburg farm north of Sweetwater on the Roby Highway. Both were members of the First Christian Church and graduated from Sweetwater High School, Fannie in 1927 and Abbie in 1930.
In 1921, when Fannie was eleven, she became ill with osteomelitis, a purulent inflammation of the bone in her knee. This illness is significant to the history of Nolan County because there was no hospital and Drs. A.A. Chapman and L.O. Dudgeon had only recently installed the first X-ray machine in Sweetwater in their offices. They were able, by its use, to diagnose this infection. The surgery was performed in the living room of the family home with Tom's nephew, Dr. Henry Bennett of Lamesa, administering the anesthetic (chloroform). A sheet was tacked above the hospital table to prevent dust and contamination.
After high school, Fannie attended Mary Hardin-Baylor and Southwest Texas State Universities and Our Lady of the Lake (San Antonio). She worked in public schools of Texas as a teacher and counselor for 37 years, retiring in 1973 to become an artist and write her families' histories.
Fannie was married in 1935 to Paul Henry Suffel of Tuleta, Texas. He was a graduate of Texas A&M and a teacher of vocational agriculture. They have one son, Richard Paul Suffel of Walker Energy in Houston, and two grandsons, Sean and Scott.
Abbie took jobs with Mr. McCorkle in the auto finance business, Chrysler Corporation, and as a typist in Sweetwater. She was married in 1931 to Jeptha T. Whorton, who was employed by Texas Electric Service Company, Eskota Station. He was transferred in 1933 to Wink, Texas, where both their children, Tommie Louise and James Tennison, were born. In 1943, they moved to Tahoka, Texas, where Jep worked for an implement company, farmed and did contracting and building houses. Abbie studied and kept General Motors double entry books for 10 years, owned and operated her own dress shop, "Abbie's Fashion Shop", for 16 years until the fatal auto accident which took Jep's life on 30 May 1964.
Abbie then moved to Lubbock and got her insurance and state and national securities licenses after attending Louisiana State University. She was the first woman with Continental Casualty company to produce $25,000 in premium dollars her first year in Lubbock.
Abbie's family includes children Tommie Louise Beckwith (divorced), who is a financial aids officer at Texas Tech University; Byron and son Christopher; Karon Bybee and children Stephanie, Bradley, Andy and Kristi; and son James Tennison Whorton who has sons Jeffrey and Jay.
Lynson Easton Thomas, Jr., an independent oil wildcatter, and Abbie were married 16 June 1984 in Lubbock.
Fannie and Abbie own property on Paradise Point, Lake Buchanan, Tow, Texas, and when Abbie's house (which L.E. has designed so beautifully for the lots) is built, they will be living near each other for the first time since they grew up in the family home in Sweetwater.
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