Thurman Richardson

THURMAN JOEL RICHARDSON



THURMAN JOEL RICHARDSON PASSED FROM HIS EARTHLY HOME TO HIS HEAVENLY HOME ON SUNDAY, JULY 7, 2013.BURIAL WILL BE IN DREAMLAND CEMETERY IN CANYON, TEXAS AT 10:30 AM ON WEDNESDAY, JULY 10, 2013. MEMORIAL SERVICES WILL BE AT 2:30 ON WEDNESDAY AT CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH,8TH AND MAPLE, PANHANDLE. BRO. JIM POWELL AND BRO. ANTHONY POWELL WILL OFFICIATE. ARRANGEMENTS ARE BY MINTONCHATWELL FUNERAL HOME, PANHANDLE.

THURMAN WAS BORN APRIL 3, 1918, IN TROUP, TEXAS, TO JOSEPH NELSON RICHARDSON AND JULIA SOPHRONIA ANN WOMACK. HE WAS ONE OF 13 CHILDREN.HE GRADUATED FROM KELTON HIGH SCHOOL AND JOINED THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS.HE LATER JOINED THE ARMY AND SERVED IN THE EUROPEAN AND AFRICAN THEATRES FROM 1942 TO 1946 WITH THE 77TH EVACUATION UNIT AS A STAFF SARGEANT DURING WORLD WAR II. HE ENTEREDWEST TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY IN 1947 AND EARNED HIS BACHELORS AND MASTERS DEGREES IN EDUCATION.

THURMAN TAUGHT SCHOOL AND COACHED IN PANHANDLE FOR TEN YEARS AND TAUGHT IN STINNETT FOR FIFTEEN YEARS. HE WAS INTERESTED IN GENEALOGY AND PUBLISHED SEVERAL BOOKS ON HIS FAMILY HISTORY. HE ALSO FARMED EAST OF PANHANDLE FOR SIXTY YEARS.
HE WAS PRECEDED IN DEATH BY HIS PARENTS AND TWELVE SIBLINGS.

SURVIVORS INCLUDE HIS WIFE, FLO RICHARDSON OF PANHANDLE TWO DAUGHTERS, GENEVA GRAY OF PANHANDLE, CHERIE CHECHOURKA AND HUSBAND DAVE OF AMARILLO FOUR SONS, JOEL RICHARDSON OF CANYON, GARY RICHARDSON AND WIFE, KARLA OF PANHANDLE, KEITH RICHARDSON AND WIFE, SANDY OF AMARILLO, JAMIE RICHARDSON AND WIFE, KATHY OF FRISCO. FIFTEEN GRANDCHILDREN AND THIRTEEN GREATGRANDCHILDREN.

THE FAMILY SUGGESTS MEMORIALS BE TO CALVARY BAPTIST CHURCH, P.O. BOX 991, PANHANDLE, TX
79068 OR A FAVORITE CHARITY.

Visitation

Minton Chatwell Funeral Directors
510 N. Main St.
Panhandle, TX  79068
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
6:00 pm to 8:00 pm

Service

Funeral Service

Calvary Baptist Church
803 Maple St.
Panhandle, TX  79068
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
2:30 pm

Cemetery

Dreamland Cemdetery
Canyon, TX  79015

Memorial Contributions

P. O. Box 991
Panhandle, TX  79068