Hubert Deshields

Hubert Wayne Tubby DeShields, 85, died Monday, March 31, 2008 in Amarillo, Texas.BRBRServices will be at 2:00 p.m. Wednesday at Riverview Baptist Church with Rev. Derryl DeShields, officiating and Rev. Jimmy Gillmore, Pastor, assisting. Interment will be in The Garden of Devotion at Highland Park Cemetery under the direction of MintonChatwell Funeral Directors of Borger.BRBRTubby was born on February 12, 1923 in Beardon, Oklahoma to Brice William Ida Faye DeShields. He was a member of the 778th squadron, 464th Bomb Group of the 15th Air Force in Italy during World War II. After the war he returned to Oklahoma where he met and fell in love with Kittie Eva Wyrick. They were married on March 16, 1946 and later moved to the Texas panhandle where Tubby went to work for Phillips Petroleum Co. He worked in Sneed and Dmas and then moved to Borger where he worked in the NGL section of the Borger Refinery and NGL Process Center until his retirement in 1982. He was a 32nd degree Mason and member of Riverview Baptist Church in Borger.BRBRTubby was preceded in death by his parents and wife, Kittie. He was also preceded in death by two brothers, Jay Alford, and sister, Lucille.BRBRHe is survived by two sons - Derryl Wayne DeShields wife, Kaye of Berryville, Arkansas, Michael David DeShields wife, Nancy of Amarillo, daughter - Gerry Diane Taliaferro husband, John of Summerville, SC, brother - Jack DeShields wife, Peggy of Cromwell, OK, ten grandchlidren and fourteen great-grandchildren and one due anytime.BRBRCasket bearers will be David DeShields, Robert J. Edmiaston, Richard DeShields, Ray DeShields, Gary DeShields and Henry Wilhelm.BRBRMemorials may be made to BSA Hospice, Box 950, Amarillo 79105, Cal Farley's Boys Ranch, 115 Lake Road, Boys Ranch, TX 79010 or St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 322 N. Lauderdale, Memphis, TN 38105.

Service

Funeral Service

Riverview Baptist Church
500 Old Stinnett Hwy
Borger, TX  79007
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
2:00 p.m.

Cemetery

Highland Park CemeteryH
931 Sterling St.
Borger, TX  79007

Memorial Contributions

BSA Hospice
Box 950
Amarillo, TX  79105

Cal Farleys Boys RanchP
PO Box 1890
Amarillo, TX  79174

St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital
322 N> Lauderdale
Memphis, TN  38105