Mattie R Eggert

The next to youngest of 9 brothers and sisters and a half-brother, she is survived by her younger brother, James Greenway of Parsons, Tennessee. Mattie is also survived by her children, 11 grandchildren, 10 great-grandchildren, 6 step-great-grandchildren, and 1 great-great-grandson.

By the time Mattie was six, both parents had passed away from Tuberculosis. The remaining brothers and sisters took care of each other and remained on the farm. They did all the household and farm chores without any outside assistance.

With the breakout of World War II, the older brothers departed for the war. Following the war and high school graduation, Ethel and Mattie departed to Washington, DC, where Mattie, and her sister Ethel, worked for the Department of the Army in various locations, including the Pentagon. Later in life, she worked for the US government in the Dallas area.

In the 1950s, Mattie met Wilbur Eggert, her future husband at a military club and soon married. Wilbur had just returned from the Korean War. While in the DC area, they had two sons—Francis and Kirk (Tommy). They were stationed in Germany twice and California twice. In the 1960s, they had two more children ---Katherine and Matthew. Later, they resided in New Mexico, Midland, and Garland, Texas. She then moved to Odessa, and Andrews, Texas, and resided at the Beehive home.

Mattie and Wilbur enjoyed traveling during all their assignments and retirement years to many wonderful places, throughout Europe, Hawaii, Mexico, New York City, and Niagara Falls.

Mattie’s greatest accomplishments were raising her children and grandchildren. She enjoyed gardening and flowers of all types. To anybody meeting Mattie, they would notably remark that she was the kindest woman they had ever met. Nobody ever had a bad thing to say about her. Mattie was a woman that always, always cared and cooked for her children. There was nothing she would not sacrifice for them. Mattie, and her truly wonderful kindness and friendly personality, will live on through her children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren!