JOSHUA -- Bobbye Spradlin left this world for a much better place Monday, March 5, 2012.
Funeral: 2 p.m. Friday in Emerald Hills Memorial Chapel, 500 Sublett Road, Kennedale. Interment: Emerald Hills Memorial Park. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
She was John Spradlin's "Beloved" for almost 55 years. "There was no better woman than my Beloved," he said on many occasions.
She had a great love for people and their eternal souls. It was a great joy to her to be able to hand out one of the "smiley face" salvation tracts that she and John had printed up. They handed out these to many new friends.
Survivors: Her husband, John, whom she married Oct. 19, 1957; daughter, Linda Ware of Rendon; granddaughter, Amanda Pitts and husband, Ronnie, of Midlothian; granddaughter, Melanie Duffield and husband, Tom, of Rendon; grandson, Trey Ware of Fort Worth; great-grandchildren, Taylor, Rance and Reece Pitts and Hallie Nickell; brothers, Bruce Vaughn and wife, Mickey, of Flower Mound, Donnell Vaughn and wife, Donna, of Wills Point and James Vaughn, of Odessa; numerous nieces and nephews; and many friends. She cherished them all.