Services for Wilda Spikes Laminack, 91, of Ralls were held at 11 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, 2001, at Ralls First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Gary Hubbard officiating and the Rev. Larry Reed-Farris assisting.Burial was in Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
She died Thursday, Oct. 11, 2001, at Ralls Nursing Home.
She was born Oct. 3, 1910, in Crosby County.
She married John Lewie Laminack in January 1946 in Ralls. He died March 14, 1970.
She attended schools in the Farmer and McCoy communities and graduated from Crosbyton High School.
She furthered her education by receiving a bachelor´s degree in Home Economics from Texas Tech in 1935. While attending Tech she and her twin sister were on the acrobatics team. During World War II, she worked at Pantex in Amarillo and taught sewing around Floydada.
During the WPA (Works Progress Administration) era, she set up and managed 22 school lunchrooms around the Aspermont area. She loved painting pictures recreating cowboy and farm scenes, especially horses and windmills. Her entries in the South Plains fair for painted butter churns, old medicine bottles and large fruit cans won numerous ribbons. She has several paintings in the Texas Tech Museum, the Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum in Crosbyton and the Ralls Museum.
Survivors include two sons, Dale Laminack and his wife, Gayla, of Ralls and Johnny Laminack and his wife, Rene, of Lubbock; one daughter, Margaret Lancaster and her husband, Darrell, of Garland; six grandchildren, Jenifer O´Brien, Jessica Marvin, Shay Laminack, Dale Laminack, II, Carley Laminack, and Cassidy Laminack; four great-grandchildren, Melanie and Taryn O´Brien, Wesley and Tanner Marvin; her extended family includes the families of Jimmy Laminack, deceased, of Statesville, NC, and Betty Jaroe Friona and Darlene Stovall of Floydada.
The family suggests memorials to First United Methodist Church operating budget in Ralls.
The Crosby County News & Chronicle, Friday, Oct. 19, 201, page 8
NOTE: Wilda, and her twin sister Wilma, were the daughters of Jospeh J. and Nellie Witt Spikes
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