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Veteran World War II and KoreaIn the spring of 1927 when I was about 1,1/2 years old, I brought my Dad and Mother, Cecil and Nellie Addy to Spur. My Dad had come to Spur from Como, Texas as a barber to work for Schrimsher and Stack. He later worked for Walter Jimison and Andy Hurst. He passed away in 1939 and I still miss him very much. He was a good Dad. Many a time he would give me a dime to go to the Palace Theatre and a nickel to buy a sack of popcorn. Other times he would give me a nickel to buy an ice cream cone or big mug of Root Beer at the City Drug or the Red Front Drug. Sometime I would get it at Chastain Drug if I could wait that long to get that far up the street before the nickel would burn a hole in my pocket.
My Mother was a dress maker and worked at Spur Laundry and was part owner of City Cleaners with Richard Ensey. She was a wonderful mother and took good care of her family. I am not sure where we lived when we first came to Spur, but I do know we lived at Mrs. Buchanan´s in 1931, because I ordered a sister and Dr. Blackwell brought me one named Jonell at the upstairs apartment of Mrs. Buchanan on Hill Street. Jonell is now living in Houston.
My Mother passed away in 1970 in the Amarillo Hospital. Both my mother and dad are buried in the Spur Cementery.
I finished high school in Spur. I worked for Chandler Funeral Home, Spur Bakery and did many other jobs. I delivered circulars for Raul English, carried out groceries for Safeway. I rode Mr. Hazelwood´s dray wagon up Burlington. I helped unload Light Crust Flour while the Light Crust Doughboys played in front of Spur Bakery. I picked cotton at the experiment station and made 35¢ one day. I had charged my cotton sack at Gabriel´s. It took me four months of delivering Avalanche Journal to pay $3.00 to Mr. Gabriel.
I was drafted and served with the First Army in Europe. In 1945, I married my high school sweetheart, Elsye Frazier. After World War II I worked for Dickens County Electric Co-op, helping to survey some of the first rural electric lines in Dickens County. I worked for Reece McNeill and Wooten Grocery.
We moved to Big Spring after I returned from the Army during Korean conflict, I went to work for Kraft Foods. I am still employed by Kraft today. Elsye and I have lived in Midland since 1954. We have two wonderful children.
Our daughter is a Flight Nurse and Major Select in the U.S. Air Force. She is married to the one and only son-in-law, Major Select Keith Trumbull. They now live in Florida.
Our son Cecil lives in Midland with our lovely daughter-in-law, Carroll and our grandson Hays. Cecil sells and installs cementing equipment. Carroll works for an oil company. They live on a small farm where they raise horses, weeds, and our grandson. We are also expecting another grandbaby soon.
In November 1985 Elsye and I will be married 40 years. I wish mother and dad could have been here today.
Written by Bill AddySource: Dickens County History...its Land and People ©1986 by Dickens Historical Commission
Funeral services for Bill Addy, Midland, were at 9:30 a.m. Tuesday in Ellis Funeral Home Chapel. Graveside services were at 3 p.m. in Spur Memorial Cemetery.
Mr. Addy died April 26, 1992 in a Midland hospital. He was born January 20, 1926 in Como, Texas and graduated from Spur High School in 1943. He entered the U. S. Army serving in World War II and the Korean War. He was discharged in 1946.
On November 24, 1945, he married Elsye Clee Frazier in Lubbock. They moved to Midland in 1954.
He worked for Wooten Grocery and Kraft Foods for 44 years; retiring in 1990. He was a member of the Main Street Church of Christ and was a volunteer with the Senior Citizens Center where he was recognized for outstanding volunteer service.
Survivors include his wife, Elsye Clee Addy, Midland; a son, Cecil E. Addy, Midland; one daughter, Lt. Col Nanette Trumbell of Phoenix, Arizona; one sister, Jonell South of Spring, Texas; two grandsons; six nieces, four nephews and an aunt, Ruth Culberson of Colorado Springs, Colorado.
In lieu of usual remembrances, memorials may be made to the 4th Floor Cancer Wing (East) of Midland Memorial Hospital and Medical Center.
©The Texas Spur, Thursday, April 30, 1992
From the scrapbook of Lillian Grace Nay, transcribed by Linda Hughes
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