Lucille Chambers, 98, of Lampasas, died on Feb. 28, 2022.
Graveside services will be held at Oak Hill Cemetery on March 5 at 2 p.m. Sneed-Carnley Funeral Chapel has charge of arrangements.
She was born Edna Lucille Cole on Dec. 28, 1923 in Evant, the fourth of five children, to James “Allie” Allen and Cora Azilee Dodson Cole.
Lucille’s father was a sharecropper, and her mother taught music lessons, and played the organ, accordion and French harp. The family lived on a farm in Arnett, between Evant and Gatesville, and she rode on horseback with her brother Billie to school in nearby Purmela.
The family moved to Izoro when Lucille was in third grade. They then moved to Adamsville, where she attended fourth and fifth grades. From there, they moved to the Bean Ranch property.
Lucille’s mother was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and she received treatment at a sanatorium in Carlsbad, northwest of San Angelo. She later died at home in 1936.
After her mother’s death, Lucille’s family moved frequently. Her father quit sharecropping in 1939, and moved the family into town where he found work.
Lucille had many jobs in her early life in Lampasas: babysitting, waitressing and working at the produce house. During World War II, she worked at the American Desk Factory in Temple.
She married Thomas Edward “Speedy” Linville on Oct. 7, 1944. Speedy was in charge of the German POWs at Fort Hood, and the prisoners were kept busy making Adirondack-style chairs. Lucille and Speedy were married 16 years and had five children before they divorced.
Lucille then married L.D. Chambers on June 19, 1962, and he died on Dec. 6, 1975.
She worked for many years at the front desk of the Saratoga Motel and also as a private caregiver for elderly residents. Her greatest joy was her children and grandchildren.
Lucille is survived by her children Patsy Ann Henderson, Glenn Edward Linville and partner Elke White, Jerry Wayne Linville and wife Deborah, and Pamela Kay Carpenter and husband Michael; eight grandchildren; 13 greatgrandchildren; nine great-great-grandchildren; and many nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her husband L.D. Chambers; sisters Oma Alene Moore and Oneta Yvonne King; brothers James Clyde Cole and Harold Edmond “Billie” Cole; son David Allen Linville; and a grandson, Kenneth Wayne Davis.
