Obituary for Lillian Carol Street (Seel)
Lillian Carol Street was born on December 17, 1927, in Manchester, England, to Herbert and Lily May Seel. She was eleven–years-old when England began its war against Hitler’s Nazi Germany. Her teenage years were spent in a war-torn city amid bombs, gas masks, and air-raid shelters. She was a sixteen-year-old theater usher when she met a tall, Army Air Force soldier from Littlefield, Texas. After a two-year courtship, she married M.C. (Bud) Street on May 19, 1945, twelve days after Germany surrendered to the Allies. Lillian boarded a “war bride” ship and immigrated to the United States several months before Bud was discharged from the military.
Bud and Lillian began farming at Enochs and later moved, with their three small children, to Powderly in East Texas, where they raised cattle. After six years and the addition of two more children, they returned to the Panhandle to farm. Several years later, Lillian studied and became a U.S. citizen. She was always fiercely patriotic to America and grateful for its part in helping to end World War II.
For most of her life, Lillian was a housewife, working with her husband on their small ranch near Coyote Lake. She was also a pharmacy tech, jailer, and caregiver. She loved people and shared her faith and her joy in the Lord with everyone she met. She enjoyed her family and will be remembered for her loving, gentle nature, her wisdom, and her love for the Bible. She often quoted verses that she had learned as a child during the war years. She lived her faith and faced life with beautiful grace and incredible strength.
Lilian passed from this life on November 1, 2020, at the age of ninety-two years and ten months. She is survived by three sons, Jim and wife Paula of Lake Dallas, Matthew and wife Janie of Amarillo, and John of Muleshoe; two daughters, Vickie Burch and husband Kirby of Lazbuddie, Roxanne Winders and husband Mike of Earth; sixteen grandchildren, thirty-three great-grandchildren, and two great, great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Bud, her daughter-in-law Becky, one grandson, two great-grandsons, four brothers and two sisters.
Bud and Lillian began farming at Enochs and later moved, with their three small children, to Powderly in East Texas, where they raised cattle. After six years and the addition of two more children, they returned to the Panhandle to farm. Several years later, Lillian studied and became a U.S. citizen. She was always fiercely patriotic to America and grateful for its part in helping to end World War II.
For most of her life, Lillian was a housewife, working with her husband on their small ranch near Coyote Lake. She was also a pharmacy tech, jailer, and caregiver. She loved people and shared her faith and her joy in the Lord with everyone she met. She enjoyed her family and will be remembered for her loving, gentle nature, her wisdom, and her love for the Bible. She often quoted verses that she had learned as a child during the war years. She lived her faith and faced life with beautiful grace and incredible strength.
Lilian passed from this life on November 1, 2020, at the age of ninety-two years and ten months. She is survived by three sons, Jim and wife Paula of Lake Dallas, Matthew and wife Janie of Amarillo, and John of Muleshoe; two daughters, Vickie Burch and husband Kirby of Lazbuddie, Roxanne Winders and husband Mike of Earth; sixteen grandchildren, thirty-three great-grandchildren, and two great, great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband Bud, her daughter-in-law Becky, one grandson, two great-grandsons, four brothers and two sisters.