Wayne Wilbourn

Wayne Wilbourn LUBBOCK - Our beloved Wayne Wilbourn went to be with his Lord and Savior on Monday, Jan. 4, 2010. Lake Ridge Chapel and Memorial Designers will host a gathering of friends and family from 6-8 p.m. today, Jan. 7. Memorial services to celebrate his life of 75 years will be held at 11 a.m. Friday, Jan. 8 at Indiana Avenue Baptist Church. Carroll Wayne was born Feb. 28, 1934, to William and Emma Lee Wilbourn in Duncan, Okla. He graduated from Plainview High School and Wayland Baptist University. Wayne was employed with Atmos, which was formerly Pioneer Natural Gas and Energas. He retired as a regional manager in February 1993 after 26 years of service. On July 2, 1955, he married Naomi Carlton in Clovis, N.M. Wayne was an active member of Indiana Avenue Baptist Church where he served as president of Heaven Bound Sunday School Class. He was a former member of the Tulia Rotary Club and the Plainview Optimist Club. He was preceded in death by a son, Jerry Wayne Wilbourn, who died Feb. 22, 2001. Wayne is survived by his loving wife of 54 years, Naomi; a daughter, Lynne Brown of Euless, Texas; grandchildren, Jerrett Alan Wilbourn and his wife, Lindsay, of Magnolia, Texas, Brant Alan Wilbourn and his fiancé, Ashley, of College Station, Texas, Amanda Lyn Kinney of Stillwater, Okla., Silas Brown and his wife, Kelly, of Wichita Falls, Texas, Tyler Brown of Los Angeles, Calif., Alyson Sloan and her husband, Jared, of Richmond, Texas, and Laci Sowder and her husband, Cody, of Fort Worth, Texas; a great-grandson, Jett Brown of Wichita Falls; sisters, Wilmoth Bellamy of Plainview, Texas, Dorothy Frantz of Guymon, Okla., Lois Rice of Canyon, Texas, and Neva Jo Kampfer and her husband, Gary, of Tyler, Texas; and numerous nieces and nephews. Memorials are suggested to the Great Investment at Indiana Avenue Baptist Church, 8315 Indiana Ave., Lubbock, TX 79423 or Hospice of Lubbock, 1102 Slide Road, Suite #3, Lubbock, TX 79416. We invite you to visit www.memorialdesigners.net, where you may leave words of comfort for the family and to reflect on the memories of Wayne's life through photos and music.