Obituary: Ida Lou Oliphant, Jan. 14, 2011

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
June 2015
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San Angelo Standard Times, January 16, 2011

Ida Lou Oliphant was born on July 13, 1930, to Mabel and Floyd Modgling 
in Bronte, Texas. She went to be with her Lord on Friday, Jan. 14, 2011. 

Visitation will be all day Sunday, Jan. 16, 2011, at the funeral home 
with the family present from 3 p.m. to 5 p.m. Graveside service will be 
held at 10 a.m. Monday, Jan. 17, 2011, in Lawnhaven Memorial Gardens 
in San Angelo with Corey Cornutt officiating. Services are under the 
direction of Shaffer Funeral Home/Bronte. 

Ida was raised in Bronte and graduated from Bronte High School in 1948. 
In 1976 she received her B.S. degree in elementary education from the 
University of Houston. She taught 1st grade for 22 years at Jane Long 
Elementary in Richmond, Texas. She moved back to Bronte in 1994, and 
made her home in Bronte. In 2002, she moved into Baptist Memorials 
in San Angelo. 

She was preceded in death by her parents Mabel (1985) and Floyd (1987) 
Modgling; husband Charles Oliphant (1992); and son 
Charles Robert Oliphant (2002). Ida is survived by one son, 
Michael Neal Oliphant and wife Christine; and one granddaughter, 
Sarah Elizabeth Oliphant of Houston. 

In lieu of flowers donations can be made to the First Baptist Church 
of Bronte, P.O. Box T, Bronte, Texas, 76933.

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