Eula V Neighbors

Eula Neighbors, 94, passed away Thursday, October 23, 2014 in Azle. Funeral Service: 10 AM, Monday, October 27 at First Baptist Church, Springtown. Interment: Springtown Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 PM, Sunday at White's Funeral Home, Springtown. Eula V. McEntire Neighbors was born October 23, 1920 in Wise County, Decatur. She was left homeless at age 12 during the Depression and was taken to live with an uncle and aunt on a cotton farm in Texas; where she worked on the farm and was taught to quilt, a love for reading, and how to scrub wood floors after a sand storm. At 20 she met Edgar Neighbors at a social gathering in Sept. and married him one month later, Oct. 25, 1940. Eula said that was the only thing she ever did she wouldn't want her kids to do. She became a Christian just before she met Ed and always said she knew that God had sent him for her. He took her out of flatland West Texas to his home in Reno where two children were born, Ellen Elizabeth and Edward Franklin. Eula always wanted to be a nurse and that dream was realized when she became a LVN at Campbell Memorial Hospital at the age of 46. The most painful thing of her life was the loss of her 18 year old son, Edward. Eula and Ed had 2 grandchildren, Rhonda Carpenter Wilson and Clay Carpenter. As much as she loved them, she would say that great grandchildren were even better until she had a great-great grandson and that was the best ever. Eula loved singing with her Joy Singers Senior group and loved reading her Bible and living in a state of prayer. Eula was preceded in death by her husband, Edgar F. Neighbors; son, Edward Franklin Neighbors; sisters, Lena Tackle and Ruby Black; brother, Hugh McEntire; parents; and grandparents. She is survived by: Daughter, Ellen Carpenter and husband, Ray; granddaughter, Rhonda Wilson and husband, Randy; grandson, Clay Carpenter and wife, Gina; great grandsons, Kellen Carpenter, Cole Wilson and wife, Ashley, Brady Wilson and wife, Samantha, Haden Carpenter; and great-great grandchildren, Jagger Cole Wilson, Maddox Rae Wilson and Zane Wilson.