Robert Dulah Wiginton

June 15, 2002

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Duncanville - Robert Dulah (R.D.) Wiginton, 80, died Wednesday, June 12, 2002.

Services will be at 2 p.m. Monday in Jaynes Memorial Chapel. Burial will be in Laurel Land Memorial Park.

Mr. Wiginton was born Oct. 6, 1921, in Lesley (Hall County), the fourth son of Dulah Wiginton and Mary Ollie Stephenson Wiginton. He lived and attended school in the Lesley and Lakeview communities until 1939 when he moved with his family to Hedley.

He graduated from Quail Rural Consolidated High School in 1941. After graduation he moved to Dallas where he was employed by North American Aviation. He married Omelee Hill on Nov. 18, 1942.

Inducted into the Army in 1944, he did basic training at Camp Fannin in Tyler and was immediately shipped to the European Theater as a replacement soldier in Patton's Third Army.

Wounded on March 28, 1945, as the Allied Forces were advancing on the Rhine River, he spent the next six months recovering in hospitals in France and England and finally Fort Sam Houston hospital in San Antonio where he was discharged in September 1945.

He returned to Dallas in 1945 where he continued to live and work for General Motors dealerships. He worked for Van Winkle Motor Co. for 27 years and Henry Butts Oldsmobile for eight years when he retired in 1985. He was an avid fisherman and spent his retirement years happily fishing on most every lake in Texas and especially Lake Palestine.

He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, L.M. Wiginton; and two sisters, Lettie Goodnight and Charlcie Woods.

Survivors include his wife; a daughter, Sherrie Betham and husband, Rich, of Double Oak; a sister, Jackie Ranson of Giles; sisters-in-law, Bonnie Hill of Norman, Okla., and Floye Wiginton of Memphis; brothers-in-law, W.H. Goodnight of Memphis and Clifford Woods of Houston; a grandson, Brian Betham of Lewisville; and a large extended family of nieces, newphews and other family and friends.

The family will receive friends from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday at the funeral home.

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