RALLS (Special) — Services for Loyd Aubry Wygal, 84, of Ralls will be at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church with the Rev. Jim Morrow, pastor, officiating.
Burial will be in Ralls Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home.
Wygal died Saturday, May 7, 1994, in St. Mary Hospital in Lubbock.
He was born on Jan. 26, 1910, in Tell. He married Pernecia "Nick" Moore on Dec. 20, 1930, in Altus, Okla. He was a farmer and a member and deacon of First Baptist Church. He was a former member of the Caprock School Board and a former trustee at Canyon Valley Schools. He was former adult Sunday school teacher and church clerk at Caprock Baptist Church. Two sons, Jimmie Wayne in 1956 and Roger Dale in 1932, preceded him in death.
Survivors include his wife; a son, Dr. Ben R. Wygal of Atlanta, GA; two brothers, Roy of Tell and Grady of Fort Worth; two sisters, Joyce Mosley of Childress and Oleta DeZonia of Boise, Idaho; two grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
©Lubbock Avalanche Journal, May 8, 1994
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
Pernecia "Nick" Moore Wygal was born on March 1, 1913 in San Angelo, Texas. She died November 11, 2011, at the age of 98 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she lived in Southern Oaks Assisted Living.
She was the second of seven children born to Fayette and Etta Skains Moore. Her father, Fayette, had an older son, Willis Moore. Sisters Ophelia and Hazel and brothers Richard and Willis preceded Nick in death. She has three living sisters: Ludie (Dudie) Stone, Tommie Abram, and Colleen West Wilborn.
Nick was born in San Angelo, and grew up on and around ranches in West Texas and Western Oklahoma. Her family moved to the Childress, Texas area when she was a teenager.
On December 20, 1930, Nick married Loyd Aubry Wygal. He passed to his rest in 1994 at the age of 84. She was given the nickname "Nick" by her husband Loyd. The story is that he began to call her "Neecie," short for Pernecia, and that morphed into "Nick." She had three sons: Roger, who died at birth, Jimmie who died in August, 1956, and Ben who lives in Chattanooga, TN with his wife Reika. They have two daughters (Nick's grandchildren): Kimberly, married to Harry Miller, and Kelly; and three granddaughters: Ashley, Cicely and Emily Miller. Son Jimmie's widow, Glenda Moses Wygal King, her children and grandchildren, have remained close to Nick.
Nick and Loyd began their married life as farmers near Childress, Texas. When World War II began, Loyd took a course in sheet metal fabrication and obtained a job with Douglas Aircraft in the Los Angeles, California area. After he got settled in his job, he moved Nick, Jimmie and Bennie to California in the summer of 1941. Nick then got a job as a "Rosie the Riveter" for North American Aircraft where she helped build P-51 Mustangs. Nick's parents and younger sisters, Tommie and Colleen, joined the family in California. After two years of working hard and building savings in California, Nick boarded a Greyhound bus to West Texas to buy a farm in Canyon Valley. The family settled there in time for the boys to start school in the fall of 1943. That first farm is still in the family.
Although some were convinced that she would die years ago, she found it hard to go. She was on Hospice for over 16 months. When one lives through the Great Depression, the survival instinct is strong.
Ben and Reika were blessed when she decided to move to Chattanooga in the fall of 2002. So, she was close by for her last nine years.
Nick was blessed by the Ralls First Baptist Church and so many wonderful friends in West Texas.
Funeral services will be at 11:00 A.M., Friday, November 18, 20111, in the First Baptist Church in Ralls. Following the service, she will be buried beside her husband, Loyd and son, Jimmie, in the Ralls Cemetery.
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