Gene Seely
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Gender: Male
Date of Birth: February 10, 1927
Date of Death: December 17, 2004
Birth Place: Duncan, OK
Death Place: Dimmitt, TX
Gene Seely
Gene Seely, 77, of Dimmitt. Services will be at 10 a.m. in Foskey-Lilley-McGill Funeral Home Ivey Chapel. Burial will be at 3 p.m. in Lamesa Memorial Park in Lamesa.
Published in the Amarillo Globe News on December 20, 2004
DIMMITT – Gene Seely, 77, of Dimmitt died Dec. 17, 2004, in Dimmitt. Services will be at 10 a.m. Monday, Dec. 20, in the Ivey Chapel at Foskey- Lilley-McGill Funeral Home in Dimmitt. Officating will be Mr. Gary Webb, assisted by Mr. Carter Townsend.
Burial will follow at 3 p.m. Monday in Lamesa Memorial Park in Lamesa, officiated by Mr. Vernon Flenniken. Mr. Seely was born Feb. 10, 1927, in Duncan, Okla. He married Cleo Flenniken on June 2, 1950, in Lamesa. He moved to Castro County in 1955 from Ralls. He served in the U.S. Army and was a 32nd Degree Mason. He owned and operated the first Exxon station in Dimmitt and also owned King-Seely Furniture in Dimmitt. Those surviving include a son, Noble and wife Debbie Seely of Allen, Texas; three daughters, Jeanette and husband Glenn Williamson of Brownwood, Brenda and husband Randall Keeney of Canyon, and Karen Seely of Levelland; a sister, Wanda Stephens of Lamesa; five brothers, Bill Seely of Rush, Texas, Dub Seely of Salisaw , Okla., Ben Seely of Newbury, S.C., Dean Seely of Chandler, Texas, and Mickey Seely of Omaha, Texas; four grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren. He is preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Jim Seely; and two sisters, Nora Farmer and Angie Farmer. Family suggest memorials to Rhodes Memorial Library in Dimmitt.
Published in the Lubbock Avalanche Journal
