Obituary

Funeral services for Mabel Billington, 98, will be at 2 p.m. Monday in the Ninth and Columbia Church of Christ with Colquitt Nash, minister, officiating. Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Park by Wood-Dunning Funeral Home. Mrs. Billington died at 1:10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004, in Odyssey Health Care of Amarillo. She was born Aug. 28, 1906, in Adair, Ill., the daughter Walter and Mary Offord. She moved with her parents to Oklahoma in 1908. She attended a country school and was on the girls basketball team. She helped her father on the farm after the death of her mother in 1917. In 1925, she married Leo C. Billington and they moved to Plainview in 1926. He died in 1976. She attended Lippert's Business School after her husband's death and worked at J.C. Penney's Department Store, Cretney Drug Store (later Plains Drug), and at Huff's Grocery Store, Wayne's Grocery and Buddy's Food. She worked at the Eleanor Griffin Center and the MH/MR Center for 24 years. She retired at the age of 88. She was a member of Ninth and Columbia Church of Christ, RSVP, Senior Citizens Center, sang with the Millennium Singers and enjoyed working in her yard. She was the feature of a story by Herald columnist Louise Harper and was Hale County Volunteer of the Month and Outstanding Senior Citizen at the Senior Olympics in Levelland. She was a charter member of the Plainview Chapter 1093 of the American Association of Retired Persons. Survivors include two daughters and a son-in-law, Fran and Warren Dayton of Littlefield and Quadene Wright of Amarillo; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and four great-great-grandchildren. Her parents; two brothers; two sisters; a daughter, Beverly Green; two sons-in-law, George Green and Charlie Wright; and a grandson, Greg Green, are deceased. The family suggests memorials to the Odyssey Health Care, 1000 S. Jefferson, Amarillo, TX 79101 or Ninth and Columbia Church of Christ. The family will receive friends from 2-4 p.m. today at the funeral home.