Lila Grace Lucas Kyle

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Submitted by: Wanda Purcell

Lila Grace Lucas was born in Crawford, Oklahoma on March 9, 1926 and departed this life on July 25, 2001 in the Dumas, Texas Hospital.

Graveside services were held at the Stratford Cemetery, Stratford, Texas with Mike Talley, minister of the Stratford Church of Christ, officiating. Arrangements were by Boxwell Brothers Funeral Home in Dumas.

She was a member of the Stratford Church of Christ.

Lila Grace attended Crawford School and graduated there.

She married William Louis Kyle in 1954. He preceded her in death in 1981.

She then married R. M. Trainham in 1982. He died in 1998.

She was also preceded in death by her parents, John and Maggie Lucas; one daughter, Nina Jo Ellison; and one brother, Claude Lucas.

Survivors include one son, Terry Kyle of Dumas, Texas; two daughters, Roxie Newcomb and Billye Zac, both of Strafford, Texas; one brother, Clarence Lucas of Sunray, Texas; one sister, Maggie Powers of Cheyenne, Oklahoma; ten grandchildren, one great grandchild and a host of friends and family.