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Oneta Moore Welborn, 95, of Greenville passed away November 3, 2009, at Lake pointe Medical Center in Rowlett. Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Coker-Mathews Funeral Home chapel with Doyle Dumrall officiating. Burial will follow in Memoryland Memorial Park.
Visitation is from 6 to 8 p.m., Wednesday, November 4, 2009.
Oneta was born September 28, 1914, in Celeste to Mark Valentine and Georgie Anna Kennedy Moore, but resided in Greenville most of her life. She was the much-loved wife of Sidney Jackson Welborn for 55 years. Oneta was a member of the First Baptist Church in Greenville for more than 60 years and served as church hostess. She and Sid built new homes together for a number of years. She was the treasured mother of two, adored grandmother of three and loving great-grandmother of nine.
Her daughter, Bette Welborn Pennington; her son, Truett Welborn and wife Linda; grandchildren Gary Welborn and wife Karen and family, Julie Welborn Newman and husband Rodney and family and Paul Pennington and wife Robin and family will all miss this beautiful and extraordinary woman.
Special thanks go to her caregiver, Wanda Wolf, who she loved very much.
Pallbearers will Jerry Welborn, Marvin Combs, Jerry Minter, Leon Welborn, Jerry Cantrell and Larry Strawn.