Tillie Greenwood

Mathilde 'Tillie' Greenwood
Times Record News
Thursday, March 26, 2009

Mathilde “Tillie” Greenwood of Wichita Falls died Saturday, March 21, 2009.



The memorial service will be conducted at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 28, 2009, in Riverside Cemetery with The Rev. Scott Wooten, officiating. In the case of inclement weather, the service will be held at The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd. Arrangements are under the direction of Owens & Brumley Funeral Home of Wichita Falls.

A daughter of the late Ben and Mathilde Donnell, she was born December 5, 1911. She was a graduate of Wichita Falls High School, Wichita Falls Junior College and the University of Texas, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta sorority. She was married to Arch Anderson Greenwood on April 11, 1936, in Wichita Falls. The marriage was blessed with a son and daughter. Tillie and her family moved to Houston in 1962, when Arch became a sales representative for Wilson Manufacturing, a local company. They moved back to Wichita Falls in 1970.

Mrs. Greenwood worked with her husband at Greenwood Photography. Both Arch and Tillie were involved in the activities of their children. Tillie gave very special volunteer hours to the PTA and Campfire Girls. She played the violin with the first Wichita Falls Symphony Orchestra. She was involved in the work of the Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd, where she was a member of the Datson Guild, Daughters of the King and Episcopal Church Women. She was a dedicated volunteer and member of the Board of Directors at Southside Girls Club and received the National Girls Club Distinguished Service Award.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Arch Greenwood; her sister, Mary Elizabeth Harvey; brothers, Bill Donnell, Ralph Donnell and Ben Donnell; and by her sister-in-law, Hazel Hampton Greenwood.

Survivors include her son, Mark Greenwood of Wichita Falls; daughter, Ann Wenck and husband, Charles of Kingwood; grandson, Chris Wenck and wife, Teri of Austin; great-grandsons, Christian Wenck and Archer Wenck of Austin; granddaughter, Deborah Choate and husband Jack and great-granddaughters, Abigail Choate and Emilie Choate, all of Huntsville; brother-in-law, Bob Greenwood of Annapolis, Maryland; sisters-in-law, Phyllis Donnell of Marble Falls, Ernestine Donnell of Austin, and Ruth Donnell of Wichita Falls; and sister, Jennie Boone of Wichita Falls. Her grandchildren added much love to the last years of her life.

For those desiring, the family suggestions that memorial contributions be made to The Daughters of the King at The Episcopal Church of The Good Shepherd, 1007 Burnett, Wichita Falls, Texas, 76301, or at www.cgswf.org.

Condolences may be sent to the family at www.owensandbrumley.com.

The Sweet by and by

Gammy
Tillie Greenwood
December 1911 ~ March 21, 2009

God's Will

Have you ever gotten an email, read a passage, received a call or a letter that said something you really needed to hear. My Mom says God it talking to her when she receives messages like this. I received this in an email today.

'The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.'

We are off on our normal Thanksgiving trip to visit Gammy this year. However, this year Gammy isn't doing as well has she has been in past year. She is in the hospital. We are coming to terms with what God's will might be and hearing things like this help.

From Labor Day 2007

Tour of Texas 2007

This Labor Day weekend our tour of Texas took us through some lovely Texas towns.

Just about every Labor Day we travel to Wichita Falls to visit Gammy. The first leg of our journey takes us to Marble Falls. We went there on friday afternoon to visit with Gran and Paw-Paw. We played in the water and had a good ol' time. We spent the night and started out early on Saturday for Wichita Falls. Our trip takes us up HWY 281. This take us thru some nice little towns like Hamilton, Texas.

Some how we always forget the big parade in Hamilton. We get stuck in traffic just outside the town square and then it hits us. NOW I REMEMBER. It is the Dove Fest parade. This year we took our normal "follow everyone else because they seem to know where they are going" detour, but they didn't know any more than we did. We ended up turning around in the front yard of someone's house near the deadend we all traveled too. Ulimately our detour did find us a nice spot to just stop and enjoy the parade. Well Christian and I got out and enjoyed the parade. Chris just felt like watching it from the car. We noticed there are several Queens in this parade, but we aren't sure what they all are Queen of. Here are the parade pictures.




Christian especially enjoyed the Dum-dum lollipops that parade floats were throwing out.


Our next stop on our tour of Texas was Old Doc's Soda Shop in Dublin Texas. Dublin Texas is home to the older Dr. Pepper bottling plant in the state, where they make their Dr. Pepper with pure cane sugar, not that yucky old high fructose corn syrup.

Here we enjoyed a nice sandwich with our Dublin Dr. Peppers. We also bought some Dublin Dr. Pepper Syrup . We hear it is some great stuff. We can't wait to try it out. Christian also has a nice new shirt telling the world he is a "Little Pepper". We bought a few things for our cousins the Thames', who are the biggest 10/2/4 Dr. Pepper fans we know. Their visit to Austin motivated us to make this stop in Dublin..thanks guys!



Then we were on to our final and most important stop of our trip...Wichita Falls. Home of Gammy and Uncle Mark !!!!!!!!!!



Here we enjoyed singing, swimmng, eating cake and ice cream, playing ball with Gammy, sharing toys with Gammy and all around hanging out with Gammy,Uncle Mark, Memaw and Dodaddy.



We had a really nice visit as usual. We can't wait to see Gammy again over Thanksgiving.