Obituary for
Wilburn Willie Wenzel
submitted by Edgle Dyer
Services for Wilburn Willie Wenzel, 77, of Brownfield, were held Wednesday,
May 24, 2006., in Brownfield Funeral Home Chapel with Don McWhorter officiating.
Burial was in Terry County Memorial Cemetery.
Mr. Wenzel died Monday, May 22, 2006, in Brownfield. He was born Nov. 25,
1928,
in Clifton, and was married to Mildred Bartley on March 2, 1949, in Wilson.
Mr. Wenzel was raised in Wilson and moved to Brownfield in 1942. He
farmed for
25 years and also worked for Ross Irrigation, Halliburton, and Longhorn
Trucking. He
retired in 1994. He was a member of Parkview United Methodist
Church.
He is survived by his wife; two sons: Jerry and his wife, Patricia, of
Brownfield, and
Kenneth and his wife, Angie, of Levelland, and one daughter: Pat Burns and her
husband, Bart, of Brownfield. Mr. Wenzel is also survived by one
brother, Leo, of
Brownfield; one sister, Lorena Welch of Levelland, and by nine grandchildren and
19 great-grandchildren. He was preceded in death by two
sisters: Christina Welch
and Lillie Monroe.
Serving as pallbearers were his children: Jerry and Patricia Wenzel, Kenny
and Angie
Wenzel and Bart and Pat Burns.
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