Killingsworth, Nelwyn Shaw

Funeral services for Nelwyn Shaw Killingsworth, 81, of Longview, will be 
held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, April 13, 2007, in the Memory Park Mausoleum 
Chapel, with Dr. Tim Watson officiating. Interment will follow in Memory 
Park Cemetery, under the direction of Rader Funeral Home of Longview.

Mrs. Killingsworth was born April 4, 1926, in Glenmora, Louisiana, to 
Julius Gram Shaw and Lydia Henderson Shaw. She and her family came to 
Longview in 1931. She was secretary to the superintendent of the Pine 
Tree schools for 10 years, spending her remaining years as a dedicated 
servant to Christ, loving wife and devoted mother of five. She was a 
member of the First Baptist Church of Longview.

Mrs. Killingsworth was preceded in death by her parents; a son, Samuel 
Richie Killingsworth; and her brother, Robert Graham Shaw.

She is survived by her husband, Lee Killingsworth; sons, Lee Killingsworth 
Jr. and wife, Brenda of Silsbee, Texas, and Gary Ketchum and wife, Kay of 
Kilgore, Texas, and Jim Killingsworth of Tulsa, Oklahoma; a daughter, Lois
McCaleb and husband, J.B. of Longview; grandchildren, Joe McKay, Lacy K. 
Holland and Josh McCaleb; and five great-grandchildren.

Nelwyn concluded her life on earth with a large extended family and a 
host of devoted friends going to be with her Lord and Savior on Wednesday, 
April 11, 2007.

The family will receive friends from 5-7 p.m. this evening, April 12, 
2007, at Rader Funeral Home, 1617 Judson Road.

A memorial guestbook may be signed online at www.raderfh.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 4/12/2007.