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| Teubner, Wilbur Glenn 234852 |
| Birth: 10/15/1919 Death: 06/04/2005 Marriage: 06/00/1941 |
| Cemetery: See Notes (NOT PLOTTED) |
| Record Source: The Paris News |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (05/12/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, Jun. 06, 2005: 'Wilbur Glenn Teubner, 85, left his much-abused physical body to be with the Lord on Saturday, June 4, 2005. Funeral services are scheduled for 10 a.m. Tuesday, June 7, at Bright-Holland Funeral Home. Military graveside rites are scheduled for noon Wednesday, June 8, at Laurel Land Memorial Park in Dallas. The family receives friends from 7 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home. He came to this earth on Oct. 15, 1919, in Oak Cliff, the first of four children born to Clarence and Evie Parr Teubner. At Oak Cliff High School, he was president of the National Honor Society, winner of the citywide Interscholastic League extemporaneous speaking contest, and salutatorian for his graduating class. His happy hours were spent with fishing, hunting and pool shooting with friends. He survived to see his 16th birthday because the muzzle of the shotgun of a rabbit hunting buddy was just one inch to the left when is accidentally discharged. Receiving an academic scholarship, he boarded a cross-town streetcar to SMU, where he scored the highest grade on the freshman IQ test, received various honorary awards in engineering, mathematics and German, and 'lettered' in swimming. He was twice the winner of the Comprehensive Exam in the Southern Intercollegiate Mathematical Association's annual competition. After receiving a bachelor's degree in chemistry and a bachelor's degree in mathematics in June 1940, he accepted employment at the Mobil Research Laboratory in Dallas. In June 1941, he married Elizabeth Braun, and they later had two sons. By September 1943, he was able to shuck his draft-exempt status and join the U.S. Navy. After '90-day wonder' officer training at Notre Dame, he was assigned to radar material schools at Harvard and MIT. He then left the States, barely in time to participate in the assault on Okinawa. After one year of riding around the western Pacific on an LSM, he returned to the USA where he joined and was later commanding officer of Naval Reserve Research Company 8-12, from whence he retired as a lieutenant commander. The great high moment in his life came in the fall of 1957, when he accepted the claims of Jesus and became a Christian. He joined First Baptist Church (Dallas) where he taught 12-year-old boys and drove vans and large school busses. He was associated with Boy Scout Troop No. 1 for 20 years, serving in positions from cubmaster to neighborhood commissioner. After working for Sun Oil Co. from 1945 to 1977, he took early retirement from his position as manager of recovery research in order to complete his 42 semester-hour program to receive elementary teacher certification from East Texas State University. He then joined the Dallas Independent School District where he enjoyed several delightful years of teaching before being squeezed out by integration policies. He then bought a few acres in Lamar County where he practiced home construction, gardening and raising cattle; but his greatest joy came from participation in small-group Bible studies. He was a member of First Baptist Church of Paris and of its Vernon Daniel Sunday school class. He was very fortunate to receive Lois J., his second wife, in December 1987. As he said so often, 'Because of Lois the last years of my life were the happiest.' He was preceded in death by his parents; his first wife, Elizabeth; his two sisters, and his younger brother. He is survived by his loving wife, Lois, of Paris and Dallas; his son, Mike and wife, Rebekah, with their precious daughter, Sarah, of Paris; his son, Mark and wife, Lisa, of Houston; step-son, Elliott Johnson and wife, Virginia, with their son Noel, of Dallas; step-daughter, Marcia Glenn and husband, Ellis, and their children, John Glenn, Aaron Glen and Rebecca Garcia of Dallas; numerous cousins, nephews and nieces; and five great-grandchildren. The Vernon Daniel Sunday school class will serve as honorary pallbearers. For a memorial, please consider your relationship to Jesus, remembering that He said, 'I am the way, the truth, and the life; no man cometh to the Father but by me', and make contributions to further that message. In the tradition of the true 'do-it-yourselfer,' Wilbur wrote this obituary; proving to the end that he considered himself to be, as his Dad used to say, 'a jack of all trades, but master of none.'' |