Tucker, E.L. 


E.L. Tucker, 86, a resident of Longview since 1937, passed away Thursday, 
August 24, 2006, at a hospital in Longview. Services will be held 11 a.m. 
Friday, September 1, 2006, at Memory Park Mausoleum, with Chaplain David 
Reeder officiating. Mr. Tucker was a graduate of Pine Tree High School and 
Baylor University. He served in the U.S. Air Force as a master sergeant 
during World War II, and retired from Ammco Oil Co. He is survived by one 
sister, Louise Tucker Traweek of Arlington; and several nieces and nephews. 
God looked around his garden and found an empty place. He then looked down 
upon this earth and saw your tired face. He put his arms around you and 
lifted you to rest. God's garden must be beautiful. He always takes the 
best. He knew that you were suffering. He knew that you were in pain. He 
knew that you would never get well on earth again. So he closed your weary 
eyelids and whispered, "Peace be thine." He then took you to heaven with 
hands gentle and so kind. It broke our hearts to lose you, and you did not 
go alone. For parts of us went with you the day God called you home. Your 
beloved sister with all my love, Louise Tucker Traweek

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 8/30/2006.