Novilla Maxine Edwards

   Another name for Novilla was Novalla Maxine Edwards.

  General Notes:

NOVILLA EDWARDS TEMPLETON, 71 of Ranger passed away on Saturday June 2, 2007.

Services will be 2 PM Tuesday June 5th, 2007 at the New Hope Baptist Church with Rev. Jimmy Caraway and Rev. Ronny Guess officiating. Burial will be in Macedonia Cemetery under the direction of Edwards Funeral Home in Ranger, Texas.

The family will receive friends at the funeral home on Monday June 4th from 6 to 8 PM.

Mrs. Templeton was born on July 4, 1935 in Albany, Texas to Henry Clarence and Virgie Mae (Price) Edwards. She attended school in Leuders Texas and in Abilene, and graduated in 1953 from Ranger High School. She married C. W. "Bill" Templeton on April 17, 1955 in Eastland, Texas. They moved to Abilene in 1956 and had the first of two children, Carla in 1957 and Karen in 1959. In 1965 they moved back to Ranger where they bought 75 acres. Novilla worked for A. T.
Baron and B D Trucking for seven years, a year for HTH, three time for Victor Cornelius, a year at Bruner Chevrolet, 2 years for Steve Benefiel's Wrecker Service, and ten years for Charlie Mac Richardson. In her early years she loved to rodeo and barrel-race. In her later years she enjoyed cross stitching for all of her family. Novilla was preceded in death by her parents, and a brother Gerald Edwards who died in 1976.

Mrs. Templeton is survived by her husband C. W. "Bill" Templeton of Ranger, daughters Carla Gomez and husband Joe of Granbury, and Karen Jernigan and husband Bill of Ranger, two grandchildren Stacy Regon-Vann and Bryan Henson and a great-grandson Dalton Vann.

Novilla married Carlton Wray Templeton, son of Audie O. Templeton and Oral Lois Raney, on 17 Apr 1955 in Eastland, Eastland County, Texas. (Carlton Wray Templeton was born on 4 Apr 1932 in La Casa, Stephens County, Texas,^{3 4 5} died on 10 Jul 2009 ⁵ and was buried in Macedonia Cemetery, Stephens County, Texas ⁶.)