Courtesy of Prater Lampton Funeral Home

Thelma Mae (Queen) Nowell

June 23, 1921 - August 30, 200914

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Submitted by: Janet Laubhan Flickinger

Graveside services for Thelma Mae Nowell will be held on Tuesday, September 2, 2014 at 2:00 p.m. at the Union Grove Cemetery in Reno, TX with Rev. Burgie Thompson officiating. Thelma passed away Saturday, August 30, 2014 in Hugo, Oklahoma, at the age of 93.

Thelma Mae Nowell was born June 23, 1921 in the Pine Branch Community in Delta County, Texas, to Will and Ellie (Butts) Queen. She grew up in the Hooks Community near Honey Grove, TX, and lived in Hugo, OK all of her adult life. She married Clarence Nowell on July 5, 1947 in Paris, TX. Thelma by trade was a waitress and when the Lions Club met at the Methodist Church for there meetings and lunch, she would serve them and later she worked as a maid at the Gilmore Hotel. She was preceded in death by parents; her husband Clarence Nowell in 1960.

Thelma is survived by son, David “Burl” Jones and wife Linda of Hugo, OK; sister, Dorothy Queen of Hugo, OK; one grandson, Haskell Jones and Cathy Martin of Hugo, OK; two great grandchildren, Hannah Renee Jones and Payton Dakota Jones; cousin, Maurice Faultner of Rushbill, AR.