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All rights reserved =========================================================================== Friday September 06, 2002 Alice Daniel Doelp BALTIMORE - Alice Daniel Doelp, a retired elementary school teacher who lived in West Texas for nearly 50 years before moving to Baltimore in 1999, died Sept. 4 of natural causes at St. Elizabeth Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Baltimore. She was 94. Born Alice Belle Daniel in Keysville, Georgia, she attended the University of Georgia in the 1920s but left before graduation to accept a teaching position in Seneca, S.C.; some 40 years later she completed her degree work and was graduated from Texas Tech University in Lubbock, Texas. In the late 1930s she left South Carolina and moved to Philadelphia, where she met and later married Frederick Doelp, a Philadelphia native. After the war, Mr. Doelp worked for the Veterans Administration, and was transferred to the West Texas town of Big Spring. When Mr. Doelps retired in 1968, the couple moved to Midland, 40 miles west of Big Spring. Mr. Doelp died in 1986. In Texas Mrs. Doelp resumed her teaching career, working first in the Big Spring public schools, and later at parochial and private schools that featured the Carden Language Arts curriculum. Mrs. Doelp developed a close friendship with the late Mae Carden, founder of the Carden Method, and in later years traveled extensively with Miss Carden and assisted her at teacher training seminars. Mrs. Doelp is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Marilyn Flick of Houston; by her son and daughter-in-law, Alan and Carol Benner Doelp of Baltimore; and by two grandchildren, Edward Flick and Kimberly Flick, both of Houston. In accordance with her wishes, Mrs. Doelp’s body will be cremated and the ashes returned to Midland for interment at a later time. In lieu of flowers, memorial contributions may be sent to St. John’s Episcopal Church, P.O. Box 3346, Odessa, Texas 79760-3346. Wilburn Nelson Gaddy BALLINGER - Wilburn Nelson Gaddy left those on Earth who loved him to be reunited with loved ones in Heaven on the evening of Sept. 2, 2002, in Austin. He was born in Richland Springs, Texas, on Dec. 30, 1909, to John Elmer and Mary Teresa Gaddy. Wilburn (W.N.) lived a successful life by any measurement. Athletic from an early age, he was a star performer on his Richland Springs High School track and football teams. Then, following graduation, he raised and sold watermelons and sweet potatoes to finance his tuition at John Tarleton State until the Great Depression forced him to leave college and find a job teaching in a one-room schoolhouse in Coke County. It was there that he met and married Modena Black, who would give birth to his three children and remain his loving wife for the ensuing 21 years until her death in 1954. W. N. earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Howard Payne University and a Master of Education degree from Sul Ross State, and served as a high school principal for many years, initially for the Bronte ISD in Coke County and then for the Grandfalls-Royalty ISD in Ward County. During his tenure at Grandfalls he wed Luci Weddle, a fellow teacher in the school system. W.N. and Luci retired from education in 1972 to build a home and a new life in Ballinger, where they enjoyed the company of their many friends, several thousand games of bridge and "80" and some wonderful home cooked meals. A consummate outdoorsman, W.N., during various periods in his life, pursued his love of hunting, tennis, golf, fishing… and more fishing. No longer satisfied to drop a hook in the placid waters of Texas, he built a cabin high in the Sangre de Cristo Mountains of Colorado to pit his skills against the elusive rainbow trout of the icy and rough Conejos River. There, he and Luci spent more than 30 summers, surrounded by caring neighbors and a revolving door of Texas visitors. After Luci’s death W.N. remained in Ballinger, tending his bountiful gardens in the spring, watching his beloved Texas Rangers in the summer, and cheering for the Dallas Cowboys in the fall. And when his eyesight diminished, he was guided by a succession of three lovely ladies - housekeepers and companions, Cheryl Warren, Nancy Foreman, and Wanda Booe. He was preceded in death by his parents, John and Mary; his stepmother, Beulah; his wives, Dena and Luci; and his son, Reg. W.N. is survived by his daughter, Kitty Reeves of Odessa; and his daughter and son-in-law, Sherry and Jim Coombes of Austin; two stepsons, Bill Weddle and wife Star of Bastrop and Mike Weddle and his wife Angelina, of El Paso; 12 grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; his best friend and neighbor, Click Butts; his wonderful friends, Clara Patton and Connie Bronaugh; and his faithful poodle, Sam. In life, W.N. wore many hats. He was a fair and impartial school administrator, a loving husband and father, a devoted Baptist and Lion, an unsurpassed gardener and a breakfast cook extrodinaire. To be sure, if there are meals in Heaven, the angels are lining up for an early morning repast of homemade biscuits and gravy with eggs over easy. The family received friends at Rains-Seale Funeral Home from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday, September 5, 2002. Funeral services will be held at 2:00 p.m. today, September 6, 2002, at First Baptist Church in Ballinger, with the Rev. Ferris Akins officiating. Burial will follow at old Runnels Cemetery. Justice Lee Ingram ODESSA - Justice Lee Ingram, infant son of James Aaron and LaTosha Tullous Ingram, of Odessa, Texas, left with angels to be with God on Wednesday, September 4, 2002, at Odessa Regional Hospital. Graveside services will be at 4 p.m. Friday, Sept. 6, 2002, at Sunset Memorial Gardens with the Rev. Eddie Poldrack officiating. Survivors: Parents, James and LaTosha Ingram; brother, Bryce Aron-Wayne Ingram; sister, Alexis Paige Tullous; paternal grandparents James and Debbie Ingram of Weatherford; maternal grandparents Eddy and Sharon Menchaca and Warren Tullous, all of Odessa; maternal great grandmother, Oleta Tullous of Odessa; maternal great-great-grandmother Ethel Carr of Hobbs, New Mexico; aunts, Tanya Mobley, Kayla Mobley, Larissa Tullous, and Barbie Coursey; uncles, Michael Coursey and Warren Tullous II; cousins, Jordan Mobley and Katrina Coursey. Marion Lulla Mitchell Miller ODESSA - Marion Lulla Mitchell Miller, 90, passed away Aug. 30, 2002, in Kearney, Neb. She was a long-time resident of Midland-Odessa, residing in Midland for the past 30 years. Born in Rusk, Texas, Sept. 15, 1911, she was the second of seven children born to James William Mitchell and Nora Sullivan Mitchell. She attended Texas State Teachers College for Women, graduating in 1934 with a BA in education. In the fall of 1936, she accepted a position teaching Home Economics at Odessa High School. She would remain in the Midland-Odessa area for the rest of her life. In 1946, she married Herbert Exever Miller, an employee of Phillips Petroleum Company. She is survived by two sons, Rodney E. Miller of Kearney, Neb. and Gary Miller of Dumfries, Va.; a step-daughter, Rosemary Browning of Odessa; a step-son, Herbert E. Miller Jr. of Midland; a brother, Lloyd Mitchell of Trent, Texas; a sister, Velma McNair of Wills Point, Texas; 10 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at Ellis Funeral Home in Midland Saturday, Sept. 7th, at 11 a.m., with the Rev. Robert L. Bratcher of Mission Darado Baptist Church officiating and with a viewing prior to that today from 4 to 6 p.m. Interment will be at Ector County Cemetery in Odessa. Arrangements are under the direction of Ellis Funeral Home. The family requests that memorials be sent to Good Samaritan Hospice, P.O. 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