Lois Young Haggard Culp (Plainview)

Lois Young Haggard Culp, 88, of Plainview, passed away at 2:00 a.m. Monday, August 9, 2005 at Northwood Health Care Center in Marble Falls. Funeral services will be at 1:00 p.m. Friday, August 12, 2005 at First Baptist Church Family Life Chapel with Rev. G. A. Magee, retired minister of Midland, officating. Burial will be in Plainview Cemetery by Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Plainview. Mrs. Culp was born January 3, 1917, Plainview, Texas. She was the daughter of Samuel Jackson and Maude Baughman Young, who were early pioneers to Hale County. She grew up northwest of Plainview and then moved to the Happy Union Community, attending the Ellen Community school. She played basketball and graduated from Plainview High School in 1933. She married Lynn Harry Haggard on May 2, 1934. They farmed in the Happy Union Community and were members of the Happy Union Baptist Church where she served as a Sunday School teacher. After Lynn’s death on June 27, 1958, she moved into Plainview in January, 1959, and worked for many years for Christie’s in downtown Plainview. Lois was an avid Wayland Baptist University Flying Queens fan. She married Joel Emil Culp on May 6, 1972, and they enjoyed traveling and trips to Matagorda, Texas, where they had a passion for fishing. She remained in Plainview after Joel’s death on September 24, 1991, until March 25, 2004, when she moved to Marble Falls, Texas, to be near her daughters. She is survived by two daughters, Carolyn Haggard Condon of Austin and Patricia Haggard Smith and husband, Paul, of Horseshoe Bay; two step-children, Joel H. Culp and wife, Sonja, of Plainview, and Marilyn Culp Neill and husband, Bob, of Buffalo, Wyoming; one son-in-law Avrial Sassman of Victoria; one brother, S. J. Young and wife, Opal, of Lubbock; one sister, Alama Young Smith of Townsend, Georgia; two grandchildren, Kelly Lynn Herod and wife, Missy, of Golden, Colorado; Stephen Paul Smith and wife, Jennifer, of Aubrey, Texas; four step- grandchildren, Amber Kamps and husband, Steve, of Lincoln, Montana; Justin Neill and wife, Joni, of Oakdale, Minnesota; Paul Wilkins and wife, Lori, of Plainview; and Dan Wilkins and wife, Rachel, of Corinth; twelve great grandchildren; five nieces, two nephews; one sister-in-law and brother-in- law, Louise and Gordon Stanford of Kingsland, Texas; and many very special extended family and friends. She is predeceased in death by her husband, Lynn Harry Haggard, and also her husband, Joel Culp; by her daughter, Linda Haggard Herod Sassman; two brothers, Virgil Young and Marvin Young; a sister, Elsie Young Maxey; and one step-grandson, Dutch Culp. Memorials may be made to Meals on Wheels, P.O. Box 1984, Plainview, TX 79072 A visitation will be for family and friends at Kornerstone Funeral Directors from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Thursday.