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World War II United States Army Veteran
Naomi Lee Pickens Caplinger, born October 22, 1923, five miles west of Spur, Texas, where her parents, Bob and Emily Pickens, were engaged in farming, graduated from Spur High School and also Draughon´s Business College in Lubbock, Texas. Naomi worked at the Spur Security Bank in Spur, and was in the bookkeeping department of Cobb´s Department Store in Lubbock when she retired. Ernest and Naomi live in Lubbock. To them were born three children. First, Don Lee Caplinger, born May 14, 1947, and died June 5, 1974, leaving a daughter, Dawn Jeanene, whose son´s name is Bobby, about 4 years old.
Second child of Ernest and Naomi is Gary Lynn Caplinger, he is a pharmacist in Temple, Texas, and is married to Patty Caplinger. Gary and Patty have two sons: Jeremy Don, and Jeffrey Lynn.
Third child of Ernest and Naomi is Debra Kay Caplinger. Debra attends college at West Texas State University in Canyon, Texas.
Ernest and Naomi are proud to be from Spur, Texas, in Dickens County, and have always enjoyed, since moving to Lubbock, coming back to visit relatives and friends at Spur.
...by Ione DeatonSource: "Dickens County, Its Land and People", Dickens County Historical Commission, ©1986
Services for Naomi Lea Caplinger, 63, were held at graveside in Spur Memorial Cemetery April 6, at 3 p.m., Rev. Billy Smith, Lubbock, officiated.Mrs. Caplinger died April 5, about 3 a.m., in Lakeside Care Center, Lubbock, following a lengthy illness. Born October 22, 1923, in Dickens County, she had lived in Spur until she moved to Lubbock in 1953. She was a bookkeeper at American State Bank and Hemphill Wells. She was a member of the Highland Baptist Church.
She married Ernest Caplinger in Spur on May 9, 1942.
Survivors include her husband, Ernest Caplinger, Lubbock; a son, Gary Caplinger, Temple; one daughter, Debra Caplinger, also of Temple; her mother, Mrs. Emily Pickens, Spur Care Center; three sisters, Viola Pullen, Spur; Ione Deton, Friona and Bobbie Ray McDonald, Flint, Michigan; and three grandchildren.
Campbell Funeral Home was in charge of arrangements.
©The Texas Spur, April 1987
From the scrapbook of Thelma Kimmel Scott
Earnest jackson Caplinger, 86, of Temple and formerly of Lubbock, died Sunday, November 25, 207. Services were held at 11:00 a.m., Wednesday, November 28, 2007 at First Baptist Church in Spur with Rev. Tommy Henderson officiating. Burial was in Spur Memorial Cemetery under the direction of Campbell Funeral Home.Earnest was born February 14, 1921 in Denton, to William and Phoebe Isbell Caplinger. He was a graduate of Spur High School. He married Naomi Pickens May 7, 1942 in Spur. Earnest was a WWII Army veteran having served in North Africa and Italy. After the war, he and Naomi farmed in Dickens County until 1953. At that time they moved to Lubbock and he drove a truck until his retirement. He moved to Temple in May of 2007 to be near his children.
He is survived by one son, Gary Caplinger of Temple; one daughter, Deborah Crowell of Belton; and six grandchildren.
Earnest was preceded in death by his wife, Naomi; his parents, and one son, Don Caplinger.
In lieu of flowers, the family suggests memorials to the Leukemia-Lymphoma Society, Suite 425, 8111 LBJ Freeway, Dallas, TX 75251
©The Texas Spur, Thursday, November 29, 2007, page 7A
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