Obit of Romine, Lutie Lyle Willingham (r550) - Texas County, Oklahoma Thanks to http://www.amarillonet.com/ for permission to upload their obits to the USGenWeb Archives. Copyright, http://www.amarillonet.com/ 26 Oct 2004 Return to Texas County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/texas/texas.html ========================================================================== USGENWEB NOTICE Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ========================================================================== Lutie U. Romine BORGER - Lutie U. Romine, 108, died Thursday, Feb. 14, 2002, in Amarillo. Services will be at 11 a.m. today in Minton Memorial Chapel with Ben Willingham of Gainsville officiating. Burial will be in Highland Park Cemetery by Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors. Mrs. Romine was born Oct. 25, 1893, in Jackson County, Ga. She was a real Panhandle pioneer, having spent the last 97 years in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. Survivors include two sons, E.W. Willingham of Gainsville and Ben J. Willingham of Salado; two daughters, Wenonah Willingham Martin and Jewel Willingham Haswell, both of Amarillo; 12 grandchildren; 21 great- grandchildren; 15 great-great-grandchildren; and a great-great-great- grandchild. The family suggests memorials be to Craig Methodist Retirement Community's Benevolent Fund, 5500 W. Ninth Ave., Amarillo, TX 79106. Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 16, 2002 ========= Lutie Lyle Willingham Romine Lutie Lyle Willingham Romine, 108, of Amarillo died Thursday, Feb. 14, 2002. Services were at 11 a.m. Saturday in Minton/Chatwell Funeral Directors Memorial Chapel, of Borger, with grandson, Benjamin Carl Willingham, minister of Church of Christ in Gainesville, officiating. Burial was in Highland Park Cemetery of Borger. Mrs. Romine was born Oct. 25, 1893, in Jackson County, Ga., to Benjamin Franklin and Emma Kytle Lyle. Her family came to East Texas when she was about 4 years old and lived in Upshaw County for a couple of years. They moved by covered wagon to Pottawatomie County, Indian Territory. In 1905 they moved, again by covered wagon, to No Man's Land as the Oklahoma Panhandle was called then. Her parents homesteaded a claim nine miles south and one mile east of Guymon, Okla., between the Frisco and Coldwater Creeks. The family moved to South Texas in 1913. She married James E. Willingham on Dec. 24, 1914, in Alice. He died in 1950. She then married Albert L. Romine in 1965. He died in 1984. She was a real Panhandle pioneer. Except for two short stays in South Texas, she spent the last 97 years of her life in the Oklahoma and Texas panhandles. She appreciated having lived in three centuries, having seen Haley's Comet twice some 90 years apart and having seen so many new things, some good and some not so good. She participated in "The New England Study of Centenarians" by Harvard Medical School. She was preceded in death by two sons, James Lyle Willingham and Delton Carl Willingham. Survivors include two daughters, Wenonah Willingham Martin and Jewel Willingham Haswell and husband, Robert B., all of Amarillo; two sons, E.W. Willingham and wife, Billie, of Gainesville and Ben J. Willingham and wife, June, of Salado; 12 grandchildren; 21 great-grandchildren; 15 great- great-grandchildren; and a great-great-great-grandchild. The family suggests memorials be to Craig Methodist Retirement Community, benevolent fund, 5500 W. Ninth Ave., Amarillo, TX 79106. Amarillo Globe-News, Feb. 17, 2002 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Return to Texas County Archives: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ok/texas/texas.html