Charlsey Ann Whitt Scribner

Charlsey Ann Whitt Scribner, 89, of Olton, died Wednesday, September 19, 2018, in Lubbock.

Funeral services were held September 21, 2018, at the First United Methodist Church in Olton with Brother Neely Landrum officiating. Graveside services were Saturday, September 22, 2018, at Mobeetie Cemetery in Mobeetie with Thacker Haynes officiating and under the direction of Ramage Funeral Directors.

Charlsey was born June 13, 1929, to Walter Jackson “Jack” and Ida Jane (Long) Whitt, in Childress County. She grew up in Clarendon and graduated from Clarendon High School in 1945. Continuing her education at Clarendon College and West Texas State College, she received her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry and an all level teaching certificate in 1948. She went on to earn her Master’s Degree in Education from West Texas State in the early 1970s. Charlsey never planned to be a teacher, but, in the fall of 1948, she began a 43-year teaching career in Gruver, Texas. She also taught school in Mobeetie, Brisco, Kellerville, and Olton, where she taught more than 35 years.

In 1950, she married Bud Carroll Scribner at the First United Methodist Church in Mobeetie. They were married until his death in 2015. She enjoyed travel and had visited every state but Hawaii and joked she could not go there because “you can’t drive to Hawaii”. Mrs. Scribner also enjoyed reading, documenting family travels, and her cats.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, Bud Carroll Scribner, and her sister, Lopez Hauck.

Survivors include her daughter, Carol Ann Scribner and her husband Bernie Worrell of Olton; her niece, Ann Goodman; nephews, Don Hauck and his wife Cynthia and David Lee Hauck; numerous cousins and friends; and most of all, by all the students she taught.

The family suggest memorials be made to the Olton Volunteer Ambulance Association P.O. Box 1087 Olton, Texas 79064, the Mobeetie Cemetery Box 8 Mobeetie, Texas 79061, or a favorite charity.