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Wilbur Floyd

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Wilbur Floyd

Fri, 04/28/2017 - 3:23 pm
Wilbur Floyd passed away April 25, 2017 at his home in San Antonio. Masonic graveside services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday, May 6, in the cemetery chapel at Idalou, under the direction of McMillan-Satterwhite Funeral Home of Graham. Wilbur was born July 27, 1936 in Muleshoe, and was the son of Frank and Velma Floyd. Wilbur graduated from Floydada High School in 1954. He married Iris Harris of Idalou on Feb. 8, 1957. Wilbur’s early employment took the family through several towns before eventually settling in Wink, from 1972 to 1996. While living in Wink, Wilbur served 12 years as a board member of Wink-Loving School District, was a member of First Baptist Church, served 12-plus years as an adult leader to local youth through Winkler County 4-H activities, was a member of Wink Volunteer Fire Department, a 32nd Degree Mason and past master of Wink Masonic Lodge #1302, past patron of Wink Chapter #937 Order of the Eastern Star, and past president of the Wink Lions Club. Wilbur retired from Crown Central Pipeline and Koch Industries as a pipeline supervisor in 1996. Together with their children, Wilbur and Iris purchased and operated Lakeshore Marina and RV Park on Possum Kingdom Lake from 1996 to 2006. While living at Possum Kingdom he affiliated with and became an endowed member of Young County Masonic Lodge #485 in Graham. Upon full-time retirement in 2006, Wilbur and Iris moved to San Antonio. Wilbur is survived by his wife of 60 years, Iris Floyd; his daughter, LaDonna of San Antonio; son Weldon and wife Martha of Graham; four grandchildren and their spouses, Weston and Angie Floyd of Austin, Stacy and Stephen Lindell of San Antonio, Wade and Melissa Floyd of Dumas, and Trevor Duff of San Antonio; four great-grandchildren, Nicholas and Caroline Lindell and Matilyn and Wyatt Floyd; one brother, Don Floyd of Ackerly; sisters, Jerry Harrison of Lubbock, Nell Cox of Andrews and Peggy Cowan of Midland; in-laws, Robert and Mona Harris of Claude, and several nieces and nephews. The family requests memorials to be made in the name of Wilbur to the Young County Masonic Lodge Scholarship Fund in Graham.