Billie Joyce Nabors
Billie Joyce Nabors passed away Aug. 29, 2018, in Mexia, at the age of 88. Visitation with the family will be Friday, Aug. 31, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at Jones Funeral Services, 931 Highway 171 in Mexia. Funeral services will be held Saturday, Sept. 1, at 2 p.m. at the First Baptist Church of Mexia, with the Rev. Ed Spivey officiating. Burial will be at the Mexia Cemetery immediately following the service. Pallbearers are Kevin Nabors, Shane Turner, Weston Duncan, Kent Vest, Matt Heiner and Garrett Turner. Honorary pallbearers will be Cade Duncan, Luke Heiner, Austin Hanna and Dylan Platt.
Billie was born in Mexia, on Feb. 12, 1930, to Tommy N. “Hawk” and Tennie Bradshaw. Billie graduated from Mexia High School in 1947 in the Top 10 of her class. Billie married Albert Nabors, on Aug. 16, 1950. They had just celebrated their 68th wedding anniversary. Their 69th anniversary will be celebrated in Heaven, as Albert passed away only six days before Billie.
Billie began working at Gibbs Memorial Library in Mexia after graduation from Mexia High. She then worked for attorney Wallace Mason. After the birth of her first child she was a homemaker. When her children began school she worked alongside her husband in the dry cleaning business. They purchased Jim Brady Cleaners in Mexia and then Maddox Cleaners, which became Nabors Cleaners and is still in business under new ownership.
Billie’s life was centered around her family and her church, First Baptist of Mexia. She was an officer in the PTA, room mother in all her children’s classrooms through elementary school. Billie was a longtime Sunday school teacher for toddler-aged children at First Baptist Church in Mexia. She and Albert were involved in every aspect of their church. Billie was in a bowling league for years and was the top bowler on her team. She was an avid reader, teaching her three children to read before they began school. She was an expert seamstress at the cleaners, altering expensive and elaborate wedding dresses and any type of clothing. She retired in 1998, after which she centered her life around her family.
Billie was preceded in death by her husband Albert; parents, Hawk and Tennie Bradshaw; one sister, Wanda Bradshaw, and a grandson, Lance Alan Duncan.
Billie is survived by a son, John Edward Nabors and wife Diana; two daughters, Debbie Turner and husband Robby, and Tommie Duncan and husband Richard; five grandchildren, Kevin Nabors and wife Suzette, Shane Turner and wife Karina, Robyn Turner and Chris Mason, Amanda Heiner and husband Matt, and Kristen Vest and husband Kent; many great-grandchildren as well as a sister, Frances Bradshaw, of Mexia.
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