Maurine COLEMAN

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Maurine Coleman Vick, 90, of McGregor, died Wednesday evening, May 4, 2011. Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Monday, March 9, at Cole Funeral Home Chapel, 1113 West Fifth Street, McGregor, with the Rev. Mark Newton officiating. Interment will follow in Post Oak Cemetery near Oglesby. Visitation will be 4 to 6 p.m. Sunday at Cole Funeral Home.

Maurine was born near Oglesby, Texas, the oldest daughter of the late Albert Wallace and Clara Eliza (Brown) Coleman. She was reared in Oglesby where she was a 1939 graduate of Oglesby High School. While working at the Bluebonnet Ordnance Plant in McGregor, Maurine met her future husband, Cecil Vick in 1942. On Dec. 9, 1944, they were married in Oglesby, Texas.

After World War II ended and the Ordnance Plant closed, Cecil and Maurine remained in McGregor where they worked and made their home. Maurine worked 23 years for Phillips Petroleum Company and later Rocketdyne. For 13 years, she served as Executive Director for the McGregor Housing Authority. She served her community for almost 20 years as a volunteer with the McGregor Ambulance Association. In 1992, both she and Cecil retired. She was a faithful member of First Baptist Church of McGregor where she was a member of the Ruth Class.

She was preceded in death by her husband of 50 years, Cecil, on Feb. 9, 1995.

Survivors include daughter, Gae Woodruff and husband, Randy; granddaughter, Lauren, all of Robinson, Texas; step-son, Warren Vick and wife, Gloria; step-granddaughters, Tonya Vick and Valerie Vick Haaland and husband, Mark; and twin step-great-granddaughters, all of California; sister, Eunice Coleman Vick, of Waco; brother-in-law, Glynn Vick, of McGregor; many other family members; and a host of friends.

Waco Tribune-Herald: 5/7/2011...L7

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Maurine married Cecil Warren VICK on 9 Dec 1944. Cecil (son of William Edgar VICK and Hattie SLAWSON) was born on 4 May 1913 in Texas; died on 9 Feb 1995; was buried in Post Oak Cemetery, Oglesby, Coryell Co., Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]