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Obit for Robert Dulah Wiginton

Robert Dulah Wiginton

DUNCANVILLE - Robert Dulah (R.D.) Wiginton, 80, died Wednesday, June
12, 2002.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Jaynes Memorial Chapel. Burial will be in
Laurel Land Memorial Park.

Mr. Wiginton was born Oct. 6, 1921, in Lesley (Hall County), the fourth child
and first son of Dulah Wiginton and Mary Ollie Stephenson Wiginton. He lived
and attended school in the Lesley and Lakeview communities until 1939 when
he moved with his family to Hedley.

He graduated from Quail Rural Consolidated High School in 1941. After
graduation he moved to Dallas where he was employed by North American
Aviation. He married Omelee Hill on Nov. 18, 1942.

Inducted into the Army in 1944, he did basic training at Camp Fannin in Tyler
and was immediately shipped to the European Theater as a replacement soldier
in Patton's Third Army.

Wounded on March 28, 1945, as the Allied Forces were advancing on the
Rhine River, he spent the next six months recovering in hospitals in France and
England and finally Fort Sam Houston hospital in San Antonio where he was
discharged in September 1945.

He returned to Dallas in 1945 where he continued to live and work for General
Motors dealerships. He worked for Van Winkle Motor Co. for 27 years and
Henry Butts Oldsmobile for eight years when he retired in 1985. He was an
avid fisherman and spent his retirement years happily fishing on most every lake
in Texas and especially Lake Palestine.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, L.M. Wiginton; and two
sisters, Lettie Goodnight and Charlcie Woods.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Sherrie Betham and husband, Rich, of
Double Oak; a sister, Jackie Ranson of Giles; sisters-in-law, Bonnie Hill of
Norman, Okla., and Floye Wiginton of Memphis; brothers-in-law, W.H.
Goodnight of Memphis and Clifford Woods of Houston; a grandson, Brian
Betham of Lewisville; and a large extended family of nieces, nephews and other
family and friends.

The family will receive friends from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral
home.

Amarillo Globe-News, June 15, 2002