Lillian Louise (Sanders) Fowler (1931 - 2012)

Born 23 Jan 1931 in Amarillo, Potter, Texas, United States

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Died 26 Sep 2012 at age 81 in Texas, United States

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Biography

Lillian Louise Sanders was born on Jan 23, 1931 at Amarillo Texas.^[1] She was the daughter of Sam Aaron Sanders and Flora Louise Parker. Lillian married first to James Hodley Painter on May 31, 1949. They divorced on Dec 15, 1971 at Donley County Texas.^[2] She married second to Jimmy Fowler on March 16, 1973 in Collingsworth County Texas.^[3] Lillian passed away on Sept 26, 2012 in Texas and was laid to rest in Rowe Cemetery in Hedley Texas.^[4]

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1. ↑ "Texas Birth Certificates, 1903-1935," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:KHNR-H8R : 1 March 2021), Sanders, 23 Jan 1931; citing Amarillo, Potter, Texas, United States, certificate 7640, Texas Department of Health, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,281,359.
2. ↑ "Texas Divorce Index, 1968-2010," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VY6Q-VKG : 12 December 2014), James H Painter and Lillian L Painter, 15 Dec 1971; from "Texas, Divorce Index, 1968-2011," database, Ancestry (http://www.ancestry.com : 2005); citing Donley, Texas, United States, certificate number 051080, Texas Department of State Health Services.
3. ↑ "Texas Marriages, 1966-2010," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTKV-F8S : 6 December 2014), Jimmy R Fowler and Lillian L Sanders, 16 Mar 1973; citing Collingsworth, Texas, United States, certificate number 019840, Vital Statistics Unit, Texas Department of State Health Services, Austin.
4. ↑ Find A Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com : accessed 26 January 2019), memorial page for Lillian Sanders Fowler (23 Jan 1931–26 Sep 2012), Find A Grave Memorial no. 97812792, citing Rowe Cemetery, Hedley, Donley County, Texas, USA ; Maintained by Mary Miller/Nan Kelly (contributor 47212720) . Find A Grave: Memorial #97812792

Obituary

SERVICES- 10:00 AM Saturday, September 29, 2012 in the First Baptist Church in Hedley with Michael Gilchrest, officiating.

INTERMENT – Rowe Cemetery in Hedley.

Arrangements are by Robertson Funeral Directors of Clarendon.

Lillian was born January 23, 1931 in Bray to Sam and Flora Sanders. She married Jimmy Fowler in 1973 in Hollis, Oklahoma. She had lived in Hedley most of her life before moving to Tehuacana 5 years ago. The most outstanding thing about Lillian is that she was a generous giver. She was a member of the First Assembly of God in Waco.

PRECEDED BY – her parents; her husband; her daughter, Billie Wilson; and her sister, Oretha Potts.

SURVIVORS – 3 daughters, Kathy Collier and husband Gary of Waco, Betty Shelton and her companion Frank Compton of Tehuacana, and Neava Vidlar and her companion Leland Terry of Floyd, NM; her brother, Tracy Sanders and wife Sharon of Eastland; 7 sisters, Joyce Woodard, Helen Lindsey both of Hedley, Jean Rice and husband Pete of Arizona, Betty McGuire of Eastland, Tobytha Wiggins and husband Billy of Wheeler, Sammy Housden and husband Kenneth and Delores Simpson and husband Terry all of Eastland; 6 grandchildren; and 10 great grandchildren.