Angelea Carey

Angelea Carey, 99, passed away on February 20, 2018 at a Merkel nursing home. Funeral services will be on February 24, 2018 at 2:00 PM at Bell-Cypert-Seale Chapel in Snyder, Texas with Mr. Tom Holcomb officiating. Burial will be at Hillside Memorial Gardens in Snyder, Texas under the direction of Bell-Cypert-Seale Funeral Home.

She was born on October 20, 1918 in Indian Gap, TX to Aubrey and Lila (Shipman) Jacobs. She married Arvis Carey on April 15, 1939. They were married for 71 years until his passing on October 7, 2010.

She was an excellent seamstress making clothes for her family. She also did crafts and was associated with Just Til Christmas, for several years. She loved to piece quilts and then hand quilt them. In the last several years she had made 17 I Spy quilts for her grandchildren, great grandchildren and friends. She crocheted and knitted. She always had a project going as she could not just sit and do nothing. After she moved to Abilene, she made 525 dresses for girls in Zambia.

Mrs. Carey was a long-time member of Eastside Church of Christ in Snyder, where she was involved in teaching girls classes, Ladies Bible class, and the Dorcas Room, where many ladies worked together to make bedspreads, curtains, pajamas and dresses. She also liked to go to Gallup, New Mexico to work with Manuelito Navajo Children's Home taking care of Navajo children.

Mrs. Carey was preceded in death by her parents, her husband of 71 years, Arvis; 2 sisters, 3 brothers, daughter-in-law, Charlotte Carey and granddaughter, Shawna Burnett.

She is survived by one daughter Jan Watson and husband Ray of Hamby, TX; one son, Scott Carey of Merkel, TX; four granddaughters, Kelle Spinn and husband Craig of Round Rock, TX, Kriste Burnett of Mineral Wells, TX, Sunne Schaake and husband Scott of Abilene, TX, and Tracey Carey of Merkel, TX; five great granddaughters, Megan Spinn of Pflugerville, TX, Kristen Spinn of College Station, TX, Brittane and Brianne Schaake of Abilene, TX and Lindsey Carey of Merkel, TX.

Family ask that donations may be made to the donor's favorite charity.

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