Victor Albert Ebeling

Victor Ebeling, 87, of Kress passed away in Plainview on Wednesday September 15, 2016. A memorial service will be held on Monday September 19, 2016 at 2 P.M. in the Kornerstone Funeral Directors Chapel in Plainview with Kelly Warren officiating. Cremation services are provided by Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Plainview. Visitation will be held from 4-6 P.M. Sunday September 18, 2016 at the funeral home. Victor was born on April 18, 1929 west of Plainview on the farm his grandfather homesteaded in 1900. He attended Hooper Rural School and graduated from Plainview High school in 1948. He married Patsy Keniston on November 22, 1950. They farmed west of Kress. In 1952 they moved to Ogden, Utah where he worked at Hill Air Force Base and learned the machinist trade. Their only daughter, Ronnie Beth, was born while they lived there. They returned to Plainview, Texas in 1953. He later opened his own machine shop; Vic’s Machine & Welding. Gene Bumpus approached him about building a spray machine that would be high over the crops and burn the weeds with propane. So the Vic’s High Trac was born and it was shipped all over the country. He built a combine attachment for Baker Castor Oil that would harvest Castor beans. In 1963 he would return to his first love, farming. They bought land west of Plainview and built their first house in what is known as the Ebeling addition. In 1976 they bought land in Kress and Claytonville to farm. When Patsy was diagnosed with cancer and they retired from farming, they bought a R.V. and travelled the United States. He is preceded in death by his parents, Ernest Sr. and Harriet Ebeling; three brothers, Ernest Ebeling Jr., Wade Ebeling and Weldon Ebeling. He is survived by his wife Patsy Ebeling of Kress; one daughter, Ronnie Brady and her husband Chris of Amarillo; three sons, Richard Ebeling of Augusta, GA, Jerry Ebeling and his wife Tammy of Ransom Canyon, TX and Larry Ebeling of Bangs, TX; two brothers, Donald Ebeling and Franklin Ebeling both of Plainview; one sister, Marguerite Butler of Plainview; seven grandchildren, Kimberly and husband Kent Gilbert, Valerie and Jason Brown, Shelby Ebeling, Marshall Ebeling, Katie Ebeling, Cody Ebeling and Austin Ebeling; six great-grandchildren, Bradyn and Riley Gilbert, Stetson and Stratton Ebeling, and Kimberly and Jameson Brown. Memorials can be made in Victors name at the Alzheimer’s Association, 225 N Michigan Ave, Floor 17, Chicago, IL 60601-7633 and also the American Cancer Society, 3513 10th St, Lubbock, Texas 79415.