Obituary

McGuire, Orval ? IOOF, blk. 69 ? double stone with his wife

Orval McGuire 95, formerly of Plainview, passed away on Thursday, May 31, 2012, in San Antonio. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 2, 2012, at Plainview Family Church of the Nazarene with the Rev. Doug Yates officiating. Burial will follow at Plainview Cemetery under the care of Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Plainview. A visitation will be from 6-8 p.m. today, June 1, 2012, at the funeral home.

Orval Leslie McGuire was born Feb. 12, 1917, in Holdenville, Okla. He is the sixth of 13 children born to Willie Weaver and Belva Mae Dickey McGuire. Nine of the 13 children survived to adulthood. The family moved to Floydada, Texas, when he was 12 years old. They moved to Halfway, Texas, in 1930 and Liberty community north of Plainview, Texas, in 1932. He has been a member of the First Church of the Nazarene in Plainview since 1932. Orval farmed most of his life. He helped with the family farm growing up, which included picking cotton by hand and plowing with the horses, Bay and Black, and later tractors. He retired from farming in 1974. He met and fell in love with Geneva Shugart, whose family lived on the next farm. They married on Oct. 30, 1937, in Plainview.

Orval and Geneva owned and operated the Plainview Hatchery in the 1940s to '50s. It was located on the south side of the courthouse square in downtown Plainview. They bought fertilized eggs from local farmers, incubated, hatched and sold the chicks. In 1959, Orval and his father, W.W. McGuire, built the family a new home on the farm northeast of Plainview. In 1983, the house was moved into town at 2005 Dimmitt Road. Orval and Geneva lived in the house for 50 years before moving into assisted living in San Antonio in 2009. Orval also was talented in working with wood, machinery, welding and anything else that needed doing on the farm. Orval and Geneva spent their retirement years playing with grandchildren, traveling in their RV and gardening.

He was preceded in death by his parents, W.W. and Belva McGuire; two brothers; and seven sisters.

He is survived by his wife, Geneva McGuire, formerly of Plainview, Texas; one daughter, Sheila McGuire Nelson of San Antonio, Texas; one son, Glen Orval McGuire of Danville, Ala.; two brothers, Wilson McGuire of Loveland, Okla., and Dell McGuire of Big Spring, Texas; one sister, Wilma McClain of Bethany, Okla.; three grandchildren, De McGuire of Danville, Ala., Tonja Murdock of Portland, Tenn., and Lesli Townsend of San Antonio, Texas; four great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.

Published in Plainview Daily Herald from June 1 to June 2, 2012