

of 63. LaPriel was born to Durwood and Leonida Parton on September 6, 1958 in Wichita Falls, TX.
Services will be held April 11, 2022 at Hampton Vaughan Crestview Funeral Home &
Memorial Park in Wichita Falls, TX at 11:00 A.M. Interment to follow at Crestview Cemetery.
LaPriel graduated from S. H. Rider High School in l976 and attended Midwestern State
University and was a member of the Alpha Phi Soriety, and later attended Miss Wade’s Fashion
Merchandising College in Dallas, TX., where she received an Associate Degree in Applied Arts in
1979. LaPriel enjoyed being surrounded by family and watching her great nephew and nieces play.
She was known to her family by several nicknames that she loved. They called her “Sister”,
“Poopsy”, “Pill”, and “Aunt Pill”.
LaPriel is survived by her sister, Durleen VanWinkle of Wichita Falls; her nephew Blake
VanWinkle and wife Lauren and their children, Neylan, Tucker and Collins; her niece Heather Van
Winkle and Tim Butos and child, Henley; nieces Jamie Holder Harding and son, Justin, Karrie
Holder Curb and her daughters, Krystal and Lindley, Tammie Holder Lile and husband Dewayne and
their son, Garrett; nephew, Mark Holder and wife Stephanie and daughter, Hannah, Jeff Bridgewater
and wife Chanda and son, Luke, her best friend and cousin, Janet Weathers, along with numerous
cousins. Also a loving friend, Stephen “Hank” Henry; LaPriel is preceded in death by her parents,
Durwood and Leonida Parton, brother, Garland Ray Parton, sister, Maxine “Mickey” Holder and
brother, Rick Bridgewater, and her favorite fur babies, Bella and BeBe.
The family requests that in lieu of flowers that a donation be made in the name of LaPriel
Marie Parton in loving memory of her mother, Leonida Parton to Hospice of Wichita Falls.
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