Obituary: Loudell Gentry, December 24, 2012

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
Feb 2015
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The Observer/Enterprise, Coke County, TX - January 4, 2013

GENTRY 
 
Loudell Gentry, our loving mother and grandmother passed away to be with 
our Lord on Monday, December 24, 2012. Visitation was Friday, December 28, 
2012, with the family present from 6 pm to 8 pm at the funeral home. 
Graveside services were held at 10 am Saturday, December 29, 2012, in 
Fairview Cemetery in Bronte. Services were under the direction of Shaffer 
Funeral Home.

Loudell Gentry was born on October 23, 1923, on a cotton farm in Norton, 
Texas, to Fred and Beth Williams where she learned how to chop cotton and 
work hard.

She married C.R. "Sonny" Gentry on February 7, 1942.She continued her hard 
work, chopping and picking cotton, but also learned to ride, work stock and 
build fence, while being a full-time homemaker.
 
Loudell was an avid sports fan, mainly football and baseball, more specifically 
the Dallas Cowboys, Texas Rangers and Houston Astros. She was an outstanding 
cook and still made homemade rolls for every family gathering. She enjoyed 
playing bridge with her friends and in her younger years, she was a very good 
tennis player and loved to sing, performing at weddings, county fairs and 
church on a regular basis. She was known as Grammer by family and friends 
and will be missed by all.

Loudell was preceded in death by her parents, Fred and Beth Williams and 
step-mother, Vickie Williams, her siblings, D. W. Williams, Modena Smallwood, 
Hilda Powers, Marzee Powers, and  Leta Sudberry, her husband of 67 years, 
Sonny Gentry and her daughter, Debbie Gentry Harcourt.

She is survived by her son, David Gentry and wife, Brendi of Norton, and 
Jim Harcourt and wife Cindy of Abilene, grandchildren; Melinda Gentry, 
Julia Gentry and husband, Michael Manley of San Angelo, Shealon Harcourt 
Tulley and husband Mark of Clyde, and Heath Harcourt and wife Landa of 
Stephenville; great grand-children, Hunter, McKenna, Kinlee, Davashtian, 
Kylar, and Kash, two step great-grandchildren, Michael and Dedrick, brother 
and sister-in-law Bill and Ginger Gentry; and many nieces and nephews.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorial contributions be 
made to the Bronte Ambulance Service, Bronte United MethodistChurch, 
Boys and Girls Clubs, the Boys Ranch or your favorite charity.

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