Obituary

Whitacre, Cecil Alvis, Mrs. (Gladys Horton)

Funeral services for Gladys Horton Whitacre, 95, will be at 2 p.m. Saturday in First United Methodist Church with Dr. Max Browning, pastor, and the Rev. Michael Struve, chaplain with Covenant Health Systems, officiating.

Burial will be in Plainview Memorial Park by Lemons Funeral Home.

Mrs. Whitacre died at 2 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 18, 1999, in Hi-Plains Hospital in Hale Center.

She was born Sept. 14, 1903, in Oseola, Ill. She moved to Hale Center in 1909 and graduated from high school in 1921. She attended West Texas Normal and received a teaching certificate. Her first school was in Ware, then she moved to Lakeview. She taught at Hale Center for 17 years where she also was principal at the high school. She moved to Plainview in 1952 and taught biology. She chartered the Junior National Honor Society at Plainview High School.

She was a retired teacher, a member of Plainview Delphin Club, Retired Teachers Association, First United Methodist Church and Delta Kappa Gamma Sorority.

On July 16, 1929, she married Cecil Whitacre. He died in 1974.

Survivors include one sister, Minnie Horton Struve of Abernathy; and several nieces and nephews.

Plainview Daily Herald ? Feb. 19, 1999