Thomas Alonzo Penuel

Service: A Graveside Service will be held on Sunday, January 24, 2016 at 2:00 pm at Osage Cemetery, in Coryell County, Texas.

During his childhood his family moved frequently throughout Texas because his parents were itinerant school teachers. He graduated from Muleshoe High School and he often returned there for his High School Reunions. Immediately upon graduating he entered the service during World War II. He was still in training stateside when the war ended and he was honorably discharged. After the service he worked as a roughneck in the oil fields of West Texas, after which he had a short stint selling bibles door to door. He met his future wife in Ballinger, Texas. He married his beloved, Beulah Fay Gallaway, on February 17, 1950. In 1959 he moved to Oklahoma to work for Tinker Air Force Base as an Aircraft Sheet Metal Mechanic. There he raised three children and remained until retirement after 36 years of service.

He lovingly cared for Fay for five years after she was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s. He lost his wife in 2006 after 56 years of marriage. In 2011 he lost his son, Tommy Wade Penuel, after his battle with MS. In 2012, he moved to Fort Worth to be close to family. Thomas was loving and caring, husband, father, and friend, and will be dearly missed by those blessed to have known him.

Thomas was also preceded in death by his parents, Albert and Cynthia Penuel, and brother, Lavaughn Penuel.

Thomas is survived by his daughters, Anita Brown of Bedford, and Valorie Penuel of Gatesville; daughter-in-law, Vinita Penuel of Shawnee, Oklahoma; Sisters-in-law, Joy Gallaway Palmer of Houston, Sue Galloway of Waco, Virginia Penuel of Arlington, and Brother-in-law, Eugene Hale of California; close Cousins, June Gerber, Dorothy Dahmann, and Lonnie Jay and Mary Roy; 9 grandchildren and 8 great-grandchildren and numerous other relatives and friends.