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James Lampin Obituary
Following school he went to work as a mechanic. On Aug. 17, 1968, he married Vera Cassandra Garrett. They made their home in Merryville before moving to Tyler a year later. He went to work for a local industrial company, where he would work as a fabricator foreman until his retirement in 2000. He enjoyed the outdoors, hunting, fishing, building cars and off-roading.
He is survived by his wife, Vera Cassandra Lampin of Tyler; sons, Jessie and his wife Sheri of Colorado Springs, Colo., Jody and his wife Beth of Tyler, James Jr. and his wife Karrie of Whitehouse; daughter, Tina Williams of Whitehouse; his mother, Lela Jeans of Longview; brothers, Willie Lampin of Tyler; Jimmy Lampin of Longview; sisters, Virginia Averitt of Merryville; Judy Kellam of Texarkana, Texas; 13 grandchildren; and five great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 30, 2013, at Tyler Memorial Funeral Home, 12053 Texas Highway 64 West, Tyler. Funeral services will be at 10 a.m. Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013, also at the funeral home. Interment will follow in Tyler Memorial Park Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be directed to The American Diabetes Association, 660 S. Yale Ave., Suite 700, Tulsa, Okla., 74136.
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