Lela Fay (Griffis) Duck
January 25, 1920 — November 13, 2014
Chico ~ Lela Fay Griffis Duck, 94, homemaker, went to be with our Lord Thursday, November 13, 2014 in Bridgeport.
Funeral is 2:00 p.m. Sunday, November 16, 2014 at First Baptist Church in Chico with burial in Pleasant Grove #3 Cemetery. Family will receive friends 5-7 p.m. Saturday at Hawkins Funeral Home.
Rev. Sam Caldwell will officiate. Pallbearers include Rickey Denney, Stan Denney, Michael Duck, Willie Wilson, Dr. Jason Tibbels, and Alex Plese.
Lela was born at home to C.W. "Charley" and Gertie Stockard Griffis on January 25, 1920 in Crafton, Texas. She remembered her parents telling her how everything was covered with ice that day. “They could hear the galloping hooves of the doctor’s horse on the ice long before he arrived at their home.”
Lela grew up in Crafton and attended school there. She married K.H. “Kinnie” Duck in Decatur on October 28, 1942, at Decatur Baptist College.
Lela came to know the Lord on September 1, 1952 in Park Springs where she lived and attended Park Springs Baptist Church. She joined First Baptist Church in Chico on October 5, 1963 and remains a member there.
Most of her life she was a homemaker, but as a young woman she worked in a florist shop in Lubbock and in the cafeteria at Harris Hospital in Fort Worth. She enjoyed cooking, working in her yard and vegetable garden, and sewing.
Lela was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; her sisters, Elsie Griffis, Reba Richey, Oleta Bender, Nelba Ruth Culverhouse, Genell Hopkins; her brothers, Horace and James Carol Griffis; and her sister-in-law, Leona Duck Powers, who she loved as a sister.
She is survived by her children, Lana and Gary Handshumaker of Alvord, Darla and Danny Hartsell of Bridgeport, Benny and Linda Duck of Bridgeport, and Bobby and Beverly Duck of Decatur; 11 grandchildren; 21 great grandchildren; 10 great great grandchildren; and her best friend, Ruby Partin of Chico; other relatives and a host of friends.
Hawkins Funeral Home, Bridgeport, Texas, 940-683-2211
www.hawkinsfuneralhome.com