LILLIE MAE LUCKIE WELLBORN

GOD SENT HIS ANGEL TO PICK A BEAUTIFUL ROSE FOR HIS HEAVENLY BOUQUET

Lillie Mae Luckie Wellborn of Iredell went to be with her Savior, Christ Jesus, on Wednesday, Oct. 14, in the Hico Nursing and Rehabilitation Center. Graveside services were held at 11 a.m., Saturday, Oct. 17, at the Mitchell Cemetery. Visitation was held Friday evening at Lawson Funeral Home.

Lillie Mae, known as “Granny” to her family and so many friends, was born on July 1, 1920, to her parents, Jim and Bobbie Luckie in a shack near the Duffau Creek in Erath County.

She was the third child and only girl in a family of four children.

She hoed cotton and worked in the fields along side her dad and brothers. She attended the first part of her learning years at a country school called Big Eye and when it closed down she finished her high school years in Iredell where she excelled in basketball.

While in Iredell she met a young man whom she would later marry. On March 25, 1939, she and James T. Wellborn were married and shortly there after moved to San Antonio where their first child, a boy, was born eleven months later.

A few years later they moved back to Iredell where their second child, a girl, was born. Over the next four years two more children were added to her little family.

Lillie Mae worked at several jobs during her lifetime including picking cotton in the fall to buy school clothes for her two oldest children during the early 50s; at a clothing manufacturing company as an inspector; and she cooked for the Iredell ISD for many years and was known as the best “yeast roll” maker ever. Her favorite and most loved job was being a mother and homemaker. She was preceded in death by her parents; three brothers, Odell, Cecil, and Bud Luckie; and her husband, James T. Wellborn on Jan. 22, 1991.

She is survived by her children, James T. Wellborn, Jr. and wife Judy, Rexie Vanwinkle and husband, Wayne, Bobby Wellborn and wife Diana and Dartha Kettering and husband David, all of Iredell; and six grandchildren, 11 great-grandchildren, eight great-great-grandchildren, three step-grandchildren, five step-great-grandchildren and one step-great-great-grandchild.

Pallbearers were her grandsons and one great-grandson -- Gary Vanwinkle, Joey Wellborn, Jim Wellborn, Jesse Wellborn, Troy Wellborn, and Trey Buscha.

Memorials in our Momma’s name may be made to First Baptist Church, P.O. Box 99 Iredell, TX 76649.

She accepted Jesus as her Savior at the age of 18 and was baptized into the Baptist faith. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Iredell for over 80 years.

She was also a past member of the Ladies Auxiliary of the VFW.

We would like to thank the Hico Nursing Home for their loving and excellent care of our Momma during the time she was there. May God bless each of you.

Arrangements were made by Lawson Funeral Home, Meridian, Texas 254-435-2792.