Horace "Jr." Terrell

Funeral services for Horace "Jr." Terrell, 80, of Diboll will be held Sunday, February 17, 2013 at 1:30 p.m. at the Ryan Chapel United Methodist Church with Charles Weeks III officiating. Interment will follow in the Ryan Chapel Cemetery.

Mr. Terrell was born March 17, 1932 in the Norwood Community, San Augustine County, Texas, the son of the late Meda Belle (Kountze) Terrell and Horace Samuel Terrell. He passed away Thursday, February 14, 2013 in Lufkin.

Jr. moved to Villa Plate, Louisiana where he learned a lot of his "Cajun" ways, especially fishing and hunting. He later moved with his family to several country areas in Southeast Texas where he continued to learn to hunt and fish, following his Grandpa Earl Harvey. The family later moved to the East Texas area. The lessons in hunting and fishing continued at the hands of Grandpa Earl. He moved to Diboll where he roamed the woods where the new schools are built and the woods where Ryan's Lake Hunting Club was later formed. In Diboll he met a girl, Shirley Whitworth, which he would spend the rest of his life (62 years) with. After they married they moved back to the Sour Lake area but decided Diboll would be home. Here they had four children, six immediate grandchildren and six immediate great-grandchildren.

Jr. spent his working life as a truck driver with Temple-White, Temple Fiberboard and Thomas & Thompson, but came back to Temple Fiberboard. Of all his titles he was a great hunter and fisherman, but the one he most cherished was Grandpa. Putting his grandkids in his boat on the water or being at the hunting camp with them and his family was what he loved. Friends and family teased him about his fishing. He said all he had to do was stand on the bank and the fish would jump out of the water to him. At the last clubhouse in Ryan's Lake, there was a porch he could sit on and see his deer stand where the deer came and fed. No one was allowed to kill "Grandpa's deer". He didn't kill them anymore but enjoyed watching them. His last fishing days were spent on Lake Livingston at the trailer close to the lake. He would go out in the boat with family and friends to watch them fish. He did this even after he had to have a stepladder and had to have help to get in the boat.

He spent hours sitting at his picnic table outside or in his pickup truck reading a book and enjoying his cigarettes and beer, and the stray cats Trouble and Trouble, Jr. He said this was all he wanted!

Jr. is survived by his wife of 62 years, Shirley Terrell; sons, Nathan Earl Terrell and wife Lesa of Diboll and Walter Keith Terrell and wife Edna of Trinity; daughter, Kathy Ilene Smith and husband Howard of Diboll; granddaughters, Donya Gail Stifle and husband Jeff of Diboll, Heather Christine Terrell of Austin, Kristi Alana Homan of Bridgeport, West Virginia, Wendy Terry and husband Adam of Lufkin and April Richard and husband Phillip of Diboll; grandsons, Jonathan Keith Terrell and wife Jennifer of Diboll, James Walter "Jimmy" Terrell and wife Cheli of Lufkin, Michael Brent Homan and wife Sarah of Weston, Wisconsin, and Bradley "Lukey" Smith of Diboll; great-grandchildren, Cody Allen Stifle of Tyler, Jacob Tyler Stifle of Diboll, Michael Clayton, Joshua Michael Homan, both of Weston, Wisconsin, Audy Garrett Clary of Diboll, Andrew Riley Richard of Diboll, Layla Terrell of Lufkin, Jacey Estelle Terrell of Diboll, and 14 that he got when Walter and Edna married that live in the Lufkin/Huntington area; brother, Edward Terrell and wife Joyce of Diboll; sisters, Juanice Plummer of West Virginia, Dortha Terrell of Nacogdoches, Ara Wilkerson of Lufkin and Billie Garcia of Nacogdoches; and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.

In addition to his parents, Jr. was preceded in death by his son, Horace Allen Terrell.

Pallbearers will be Jonathan Terrell, Phillip Richard, Cody Stifle, Jacob Stifle, Lukey Smith and Jimmy Terrell.

Honorary pallbearers will be Michael Homan and Johnny Joe Huizar.

The family will welcome friends and loved ones from 12:00 noon to 1:30 p.m. Sunday afternoon prior to the funeral services.

Memories and condolences may be added at www.carrowayfuneralhome.com.

Carroway Funeral Home, Lufkin, directors.