Personal
My grandfather Wampler moved the family by immigrant train from Erath Co. Texas to Lorenzo in 1915. He was a blacksmith and one of the county's first auto mechanics. He was twice mayor of Lorenzo, served two terms on the school board and was a county commissioner. Family legend has it that he built the first cotton stripper.
submitted by Johanna Stobaugh Gray
Obituary
Funeral services for M.D. (Sharkey) Wampler, 54, were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Seagraves First Baptist Church at Seagraves. Burial was in Lorenzo Cemetery.
Wampler died at his home on an oil lease between Denver City and Hobbs, NM.
Conducting services were Rev. Frank Pollard, pastor, and Mr. Peyton Fullingim, Lubbock, officiated.
Wampler attended public schools at Lorenzo and lived at Seagraves for 14 years. He served overseas in World War II and was an Army sergeant in the North African campaign.
He was a brother of Mrs. Buck Stobaugh, Crosbyton, Crosby county school superintendent. Other survivors are his wife, Judy; a brother, H. Wampler, Lubbock, and a sister, Mrs. A.C. Whitacre, Plainview.
©Crosbyton Review, February 14, 1963
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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