Funeral services for Phoebe A. Caplinger were conducted at the First Methodist Church, Spur, on Wednesday, May 12 at 3 p.m. Rev. Billie Smith, Rev. Charles Pickens and Rev. O.L. Dewees officiated.Mrs. Caplinger was born June 24, 1896 and passed away May 11, 1954 at 2:10 a.m. She came to Dickens County from Floyd County in 1930 and was married at McKinney, TX in 1913 to W.R. Caplinger. At the age of 25, she joined the Methodist Church.
Pallbearers were John Aston, Francis Soules, George Nalley, Elmer Bilberry, B.L. Pickens and Willard H. Williams.
Survivors are her husband of Spur; 3 sons, Cecil of Spur, Ray of Idalou and Earnest of Lubbock, one brother, Hayden Isbell of McKinney; her stepmother, Mrs. G.W. Isbell of McKinney and four grandchildren.
Interment was in the Spur cemetery under the direction of Chandler Funeral Home.
©The Texas Spur, May 20, 1954
Services for William Roy Caplinger, 97, were held at 2 p.m. Monday, January 30, in the First United Methodist Church. Officiating were Rev. Billy Smith, Lubbock and Rev. Bruce Parks, Spur, church pastor.Mr. Caplinger died at the Spur Care Center about 1 p.m. January 28, Justice of the Peace Bonnie Edwards ruled death was due to natural causes.
A retired farmer, Mr. Caplinger was born November 2, 1891 in McKinney. He had been a resident of Dickens County since 1930. He married Phoebe Isabell in McKinney in 1914. She died in 1954. He then married Oza Flud, she died in 1980. He was a Methodist.
Survivors include three sons, Cecil Caplinger, Spur; Ray Caplinger, Idalou and Earnest Caplinger, Lubbock; two step-sons, L.B. Flud, Abernathy and J.W. Flud, Spur; a step-daughter, Elva McNeil, Garland, and a half brother, A.J. Caplinger, McKinney; four grandchildren and four great grandchildren.
Burial was in Spur Memorial Cemetery with Campbell Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
©The Texas Spur, February 1989
From the scrapbook of Thelma Kimmel Scott
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