Mozelle Harper Skinner Spruill

© Amarillo Globe-News

Jan. 23, 2002

Used With Permission

Mozelle Harper Skinner Spruill, 90, of Amarillo died Monday, Jan. 21, 2002.

Services will be at 5 p.m. Wednesday at Boxwell Brothers Ivy Chapel, 2820 Virginia Circle, with Dr. Gil Lane Sr., pastor of Paramount Baptist Church, officiating. Graveside services will be at 1 p.m. Thursday at Pleasant Grove Cemetery, Decatur.

Mrs. Spruill was born in the Gilpin Community of Hall County. She was one of 12 children born to Jeff and Nancy Harper. She married Benjamin Franklin Skinner on Aug. 15, 1929. Three daughters were born into the marriage.

She was a Christian and a member of the "Shut-Ins" of Paramount Baptist Church.

Frank Skinner preceded her in death in 1952. She married William Stafford Spruill in 1967. He preceded her in death in 1983. She was also preceded in death by a daughter, Rita Janelle Hopkins, in 2000; and a grandson, Larry Hopkins.

Survivors include two daughters, Erma "Dean" Meadows of Amarillo and Janice Yeutona Storer of Grove, Okla.; a brother, Lewis W. Harper of Amherst; a sister, Jennie Belle Fowler of Amarillo; three sons-in-law; five grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.

Visitation will be after the services at the funeral home.

The family suggests memorials be to a favorite charity.

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