Obit of Purl, Zelpha Mae - Canadian County, Oklahoma

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::Memorial Park Cemetery--Amarillo TX

Zelpha Mae Purl
Zelpha Mae Purl, 84, of Amarillo died Tuesday, July 22, 2003.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Friday in Polk Street United Methodist Church Chapel with the Rev. Marty Hamrick, associate pastor, officiating. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery by Memorial Park Funeral Home, 6969 E. Interstate 40.
Mrs. Purl was born June 25, 1919, in Piedmont, Okla., to Purl G. Beck and Maude Hoover Beck. Orphaned at 11 months, she was raised by her maternal grandparents who were both gone by the time she was 17.
She married Ernest Edgar Purl, also an orphan, on Feb. 3, 1940, in Oklahoma City. She was an Amarillo resident and member of Polk Street United Methodist Church 50/50 Class since 1958. In 1980, she retired as a cafeteria manager for Amarillo Independent School District.
As a military wife, she often had full care of four children while her husband was absent in service of his country. She was a devoted and faithful wife and mother through many moves and transfers of a military wife.
She always anchored herself in her new community with the church as her center and insisted that her family be present every Sunday morning. For this her children now rise up and call her blessed.
She was admired by her family for her integrity, generosity, industriousness, honesty and her labor for others. She shall be missed for her ready smile and easy laugh.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1993; and a grandson, Patrick Smith in 1996.
Survivors include two daughters, Carol McMeans and husband, Clyde, of Bellaire and Mary Anne Smith and husband, Irv, of Lockhart; two sons, Sam Purl and wife, Kallene, of Amarillo and the Rev. David Purl and wife, Dr. Carmen Purl, of Sunray; two cousins, Hallie Jean Hull of Santa Rosa, Calif., and Dorothy Henthorn of Enid, Okla.; 10 grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
The family will receive friends from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. today at the funeral home.
The family suggests memorials be to a favorite charity.
Amarillo Globe-News, July 24, 2003