William Quay "Bill" TEKELL

1918 - 2012  (94 years)

• Name	William Quay "Bill" TEKELL  [1, 2, 3]
  Born	5 Jul 1918	Eureka, Navarro, TX, USA   [1, 4, 5]
  Gender	Male
  Died	23 Dec 2012	Middleton, Dane, WI, USA   [6]
  Buried	Birdston, Navarro, TX, USA   [7]
  Person ID	I3792	Boyd
  Last Modified	9 Jan 2013

  
  

  Father	Zemery Cornelius [Zemra] TEKELL,   b. 30 Jan 1881, , , AL, USA ,   d. 10 Jan 1962, Seagoville, Dallas, TX, USA  (Age 80 years)
  Mother	Ida Belle BOYD,   b. 23 Sep 1879, , , AR, USA ,   d. 19 Jan 1929, Purdon, Navarro, TX, USA  (Age 49 years)
  Family ID	F1775	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Mayna Lee STEELE,   b. 25 Apr 1919, Midway, Navarro, TX, USA ,   d. 7 Mar 2012, Middleton, Dane, WI, USA  (Age 92 years)
  Married	23 Jun 1945  [7, 8]
  Children	1. Billie Gene TEKELL,   b. 5 Aug 1946, Corsicana, Navarro, TX, USA ,   d. 6 Oct 1954, Dallas, Dallas, TX, USA  (Age 8 years) + 2. Wanda Sue TEKELL
  Last Modified	9 Jan 2013
  Family ID	F2780	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map

  Born - 5 Jul 1918 - Eureka, Navarro, TX, USA Died - 23 Dec 2012 - Middleton, Dane, WI, USA Buried - - Birdston, Navarro, TX, USA  = Link to Google Earth

  
  

• Photos		William Q TEKELL From The Men and Women in World War II-from Navarro County, Texas; www.txgenweb6.org/txnavarro
  		William Quay TEKELL from Obituary in Corsicana Daily Sun

  
  

• Notes

  January 8, 2013 William ‘Bill’ Quay Tekell Corsicana Daily Sun William “Bill” Quay Tekell, 94, formerly of Crane, Texas, passed away on Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, at home in Middleton, Wisc., where he lived with his daughter and family.   He was born to Zemrie Cornelius and Ida Bell Tekell, July 5, 1918, in Roane. After his mother’s death in 1929, he lived with his maternal aunt and uncle, Etta and James Brown, in Eureka. He was inducted into the United States Army in March, 1941, and was first deployed to Panama where he trained with the Bushmasters Battalion of the 158th Infantry Regiment. He served in the Bismarck Archipelago campaign in New Guinea, and returned to the States as a Staff Sergeant and drill instructor for the Army Air Corps at Scott Field, Ill. He married Mayna Lee Steele on June 23, 1945. Together they lived for a short time in Belleville, Ill., and then Corsicana, finally moving to Crane in 1949, where Bill began work on the Texas-New Mexico pipeline. Bill and Mayna lived in Crane for more than 60 years, relocating to Wisconsin late in 2010. Bill worked in the oil fields of West Texas, and retired as a motor man from Pioneer Natural Resources Company in 1982, though the farming life from his childhood and young adult years in East Texas was never far from his heart. He was a member of the Crane (Texas) Presbyterian Church, later attending the First Methodist Church also of Crane. Bill was a life-long gardener, certain there could be no such thing as too many tomatoes. He enjoyed boots, jeans, big hats, and an east-facing sittin’ porch for his morning and evening coffee where he listened to more Astros baseball than one would think possible. Good luck, old pal. Bill was preceded in death by his parents; wife, Mayna; son, Billie; brother, Wilson and sister-in-law Blanche; nephew, Edwin Knight; and niece, Ruthie Knight. Survivors include his daughter, Sue; son-in-law, John Westbury; grandchildren, John, Tracy and Will, all of Middleton, Wisc.; nephew, Richard Knight of Streetman; niece, Mary Knight of Rockdale; and Boyd cousins spread across Texas, and dear friends in Crane. Graveside services will be held at Birdston Cemetery near Streetman. Funeral arrangements were provided by Gunderson Funeral Home in Middleton, Wisc. [7]

  
  

• Sources

  [S54] 1920 US Federal Census. [S368] The Men and Women in World War II-from Navarro County, Texas. [S130] Texas, Birth Index, 1903-1997, (Ancestry.com), birth record for Wanda Sue Tekell. [S5] U.S. World War II Army Enlistment Records, 1938-1946 [database on-line], (The Generations Network, Inc., (Provo, UT) 2005). [S359] Personal communication from Wallis Boyd. [S988] Proposed Change: William Quay “Bill” TEKELL (I3792), Wallis Boyd. [S993] Obituary of William “Bill” Quay Tekell, (Corsicana Daily Sun (Corsicana, TX) 8 January 2013). [S881] Obituary of Mayne Lee Tekell, (Corsicana Daily Sun (Corsicana, TX) 20 March 2012).