Woodward – A graveside service for Linda Hale, 61, will be 2 PM Saturday in Elmwood Cemetery. The Rev. Clayton Conley will officiate. Arrangements are by Billings Funeral Home.
She was born February 13, 1938, in Childress, Texas, to James and Goldie Bourland Taylor and died Wednesday, July 14, 1999, in Tender Heart Nursing Center.
She graduated from Quanah high school in Quanah, Texas, and attended business college for two years. On October 16, 1962, she married Robert D. "Bob" Hale in Altus. They made their home in Quanah, Spearman and Perryton, Texas. They moved to Woodward in 1964, where they owned and operated the Palamino Texico Station at 22nd and Oklahoma. They sold the business in 1984 and opened Woodward Safety Lane in 1986. She was a secretary and bookkeeper for both businesses, and retiring in 1989 to illness.
Surviving are one brother, Wayne Taylor of Fort Worth, Texas; four step daughters, Mary Merritt of Woodward; Reba Ooley of Spearman, Texas, Brenda Randall of Lubbock, Texas, Sandra Cyr of Mansfield, Texas; two step sons, David Hale of Tahoka, Texas, and R. D. Hale of Snyder, Texas; 18 grandchildren; and 27 great – grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, one brother and husband