Waggoner, Gertrude 

Graveside services for Gertrude Waggoner, a longtime resident of Longview, 
will be held 1 p.m. Saturday, August 12, 2006, in Clifton Cemetery of 
Clifton. Coby Allen, husband of granddaughter Sally, will officiate. Rader 
Funeral Home in Longview is in charge of arrangements. Mrs. Waggoner died 
Thursday, August 10, 2006, at Summer Meadows Nursing Home in Longview, 
where she had been a resident for the past 13 years. She was 92 at the time 
of her death. Mrs. Waggoner was born December 23, 1914, in Ardmore, Oklahoma. 
She married William "Toby" Waggoner on July 4, 1938. She was a member of 
Oakland Heights Baptist Church, where she had been a women's Sunday school 
teacher for many years. Mrs. Waggoner taught first grade in the public 
schools for 31 years, mostly in the panhandle of Texas and central Texas. 
Mrs. Waggoner was preceded in death by her husband in 1970; her beloved 
daughter, Beth Ann Grace, in 2003; and seven brothers and sisters. Mrs. 
Waggoner is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, William "Duke" and 
Nancy Waggoner of Palestine; son-in-law, Bob Grace of Longview; daughter 
and son-in-law, Linda and Ronnie Hardin of Mount Pleasant; brother, Lowell 
Hoggins of Cleburne; six grandchildren, Phil and Angie Grace of Hallsville, 
Debbie and Kyle Jones of Emory, Bill and Kristan Waggoner of Austin, Gaby 
and Jim Yates of Olive Branch, Mississippi, Sally and Coby Allen of Frisco, 
and Jake Edwards of Dallas, Texas; and six great-grandchildren. A memorial 
guestbook may be signed online at www.raderfh.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 8/11/2006.