Westbrook, Birdie Lee  
 	
DIANA -- Services for Birdie Westbrook, 101, of Diana, will 
be 11 a.m. Monday, November 27, 2006, at Calvary Christian 
Tabernacle in Longview, with Pastor A.D. Spears, Assistant 
Pastor Charles Chargois and Richard Westbrook officiating. 
Interment will be in Pleasant Ridge Cemetery in Alba. 
Arrangements are under the direction of Grubbs-Loyd Funeral 
Home in Diana. Mrs. Westbrook passed away Friday, November 
24, at a Longview hospital. Mrs. Westbrook was born May 5, 
1905, in Kountze, Texas, to Will and Katherine Robe. She 
was a homemaker and a member of Calvary Christian Tabernacle. 
Mrs. Westbrook is preceded in death by her husband, Arlie R. 
Westbrook; a daughter, Barbara Ann Ivy; brothers, J.A. Robe, 
W.E. and E.C. Gibbs; sisters, Bertha Mills, Blanche Evett and 
Cleo Cox; and great-grandchildren, Daniel and Tiffany Ivy and 
Caleb Jones. She is survived by a son and spouse, Jimmy and 
Jane Westbrook of Diana; a daughter and spouse, Wanda and 
Cotton Jones of Diana; son-in-law, Merritt Ivy of Jasper; 
grandchildren and spouses, Mike and Jan Ivy, Regina and Danny 
Tullos, David and Ann Ivy, LaWana and Rick Parks, J. Don and 
Cindy Westbrook, Delana and David Dorgan, Richard and Shelly 
Westbrook, Shalain and Daniel Smith, Mitchael Jones, and 
Michelle and Frank Adler; and numerous great-grandchildren, 
nieces and nephews. Visitation will be 2-5 p.m. today, November 
26, at Grubbs-Loyd Funeral Home in Diana.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 11/26/2006.