Obituary

Memorial services for Glorice Elaine Campbell Pirkle, 83, will be at 2 p.m. Friday at College Heights Baptist Church with the Rev. Don Robertson, pastor, officiating. A private graveside service will be held prior to the memorial service. Arrangements are by Kornerstone Funeral Directors. Mrs. Pirkle died Wednesday, Jan, 4, 2006. She was born Sept. 17, 1922, to Ed and Ida Campbell. She lived in Lynn and Lubbock counties as a child and graduated from Lubbock Cooper High School in 1940. She married Homer M. Pirkle on Jan. 25, 1941, in Levelland. They moved to Edmonson in 1947 where they farmed, then moved to Plainview in 1982. She owned and operated a ceramic shop and attended Wayland for three years. She was a member of Garland Street Church of Christ. Survivors include her husband of 65 years; three daughters and sons-in-law, Carolyn and Jimmy Durham of Kress, Mary Lou and Tommy Armstrong of Dumas and Elaine and Bill Prince of Seminole; two sons and daughters-in-law, Larry and Janis Pirkle of Dumas and Richard and Doris Pirkle of Lubbock; three sisters, Geneva Wassom of Andrews and Nina Edwards and Doris Mulkey, both of Roswell, N.M.; two brothers, Kenneth Campbell of Plainview and Lynn Campbell of Lorenzo; 13 grandchildren; 17 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandson. The family suggests memorials to College Heights Baptist Church Building Fund, 802 Quincy, Plainview, TX 79072. Online condolences may be made at www.kornerstonefunerals.com.