Love Co., OK. - Obits: Agnes Laura Fricke Vanderveer

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              Obit for Agnes Laura Fricke Vanderveer

Graveside services for Agnes Laura Fricke Vanderveer, 78, of Sherman, Texas,
were held at 11 a.m. Saturday, July 22, in the Lakeview Cemetery, Marietta.

Mrs. Vanderveer was born August 25, 1921, at Marietta, the daughter of Oswald
and Louise Fricke. She died Thursday, July 20, 2000, at Texoma Medical Center
in Denison, Texas.

She and Ernest Vanderveer were married May 8, 1941, in Marietta. Mrs.
Vanderveer started her married life as a farm wife, then later helped her
husband run a dairy farm southeast of Marietta. In 1962 they moved to Lubbock,
Texas, where they were houseparents at the Children's Home of Lubbock.

In 1994 they moved to Sherman to be close to their son and family. Due to
failing health she lived at the Integrated Health Center of Sherman for the
last two and a half years with her husband. He preceded her in death February
16, 2000.

Mrs. Vanderveer was a member of the Broadway Church of Christ of Lubbock for
years and after moving to Sherman she was a member of Wood Street Church of
Christ.

Survivors include one son and daughter-in-law, Richard and Peggy Vanderveer of
Sherman; one daughter and son-in-law, Sheri and Victor Elliston of Spring,
Texas; one grandson, Sean Vanderveer of Lubbock; three granddaughters, Mykanna
Elliston of Dallas, Lacey Elliston of Abilene, Texas, and Cyndie Elliston of
Spring; one brother, James Fricke of Madill; four brothers-in-law and sisters-
in-law, Audrey and Janie Vanderveer of Lubbock, Gaither and Verna Vanderveer of
Idalou, Texas, and Lyndell and Dorothy Vanderveer of Fort Worth, and Thelma and
Joe Dixon of Cordell.

Services were under the direction of Waldo Funeral Home Inc., Sherman.

Memorials may be sent to the Children's Home of Lubbock, P.O. Box 2824,
Lubbock, Texas 79408-2824.

Published in the Marietta Monitor, Love County, August 4, 2000.