August 9, 1918 – March 13, 2005 Margaret Louise Welch, 86, passed away on Sunday, March 13, 2005, at her home in Dexter, Texas. A memorial service will be held on Friday, March 18, 2005 at the Dexter Community Church at 2:00 P.M.
Louise Welch was born August 9, 1918, the third daughter to D. Claude and Ola Green Lamb of Dexter, Texas. She graduated from Gainesville High School and North Texas State Teachers College. She and her husband Virgil Lee Welch, who preceded her in death in 1999, and her son W. D. Welch and wife Susan, own a Texas Century Farm at Dexter where Louise was born and reared.
She married Virgil Lee Welch on January 2, 1940, and taught school throughout Cooke and Grayson Counties, El Paso, Texas and Hobbs, New Mexico. She was preceded in death by her parents and a sister, Opal Lamb Gooch. She was a loving, compassionate teacher that dearly loved children and helping them to learn. She loved her family, her Lord, her church, her heritage and her home.
Mrs. Welch is survived by her children Martha Ann Buhrkuhl and husband Jim of Big Spring, Texas; Robert Don Welch and wife Penny of Montrose, Colorado, W. D. Welch and wife Susan of Whitesboro, and Lanita Jean Newsome of Dexter, Texas. Surviving grandchildren include Dr. Cindi Welch-Yeaman and husband Bob of Benbrook, Texas, Jon Dwayne Norton and wife Ginger of Albany, Texas, Pamela J. Liggan of Lubbock, Texas, Sherry Vallance and husband David of Houston, Texas, Margaret Allison Welch of Denton, Texas, John P. Welch of Denton, Texas, Eric Carlton and wife KaLynn of Montrose, Colorado, Matthew J. Welch of Fort Collins, Colorado, Kevin Buhrkuhl of Killeen, Texas and 12 great-grandchildren. Mrs. Welch is also survived by sisters Annie Lois Kincy of Dexter, Texas and Jean Sledge Aills and husband Jim of Kilgore, Texas, sister-in-law Vera Mae Smith of Dallas, Texas, brother-in-law Walter Lee Welch and wife Susan of Fort Worth, Texas, and several nieces and nephews.
In lieu of flowers, the family requests that memorials be made to the Dexter Community Church, Cooke County Home Hospice, the First United Methodist Church of Whitesboro or Your Neighbor’s House, the community food pantry in Whitesboro, Texas.