Alma Woolfolk Dills

Funeral services for Alma Woolfolk Dills, 103, of Gainesville, are scheduled for 2:00 p.m. on Monday, February 8, 2016 at First Baptist Church with Rev. Mark Fuller officiating. Interment will follow at Fairview Cemetery under the direction of Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home. The family will receive friends from 1:00 to 2:00 p.m. at the church prior to the service.

Alma Woolfolk Dills was born on January 14, 1913 in Gainesville and passed away on February 4, 2016 in Denton. She resided at Wheeler Place in Gainesville. She was preceded in death by husbands Charles Harvey Woolfolk and Jerald C. Dills, daughter Judith Kaye Skinner, parents Hervey and Sarah Proffer, and nine brothers and sisters.

She is survived by son Charles (Joyce) Woolfolk of Gainesville; daughter Carol French of Oklahoma City; grandchildren: Vanessa Rodgers of Oklahoma City, Jaime Waller of Houston, Chris (Tessa) Hammond of Littleton, CO, and Craig Woolfolk of Gainesville; great-grandchildren: Dustin (Diane) Hutcherson of Lincoln, AL, Nathaniel Wolf Waller-Grey of Houston, Cashten Cruz and Cambria Reese Hammond of Littleton, CO, and Taylor and Kyle Woolfolk of Bedford.

A Gainesville native, Mrs. Dills graduated from Gainesville High School and worked three years as a stenographer for a local law firm before moving to Chicago, IL to marry Harvey Woolfolk. After living there four years, they returned to Gainesville where Mr. Woolfolk ran the Woolfolk Nursery on East Highway 82 until his death in 1971.

Mrs. Dills was a member of the VFW Auxiliary, Lady Elks, and Belle Moon Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star. She volunteered as a Pink Lady at Gainesville Memorial Hospital for five years. She also served as a volunteer at the Morton Museum of Cooke County.

A member of First Baptist Church of Gainesville, Mrs. Dills at one time taught a Sunday School class of 10-year-old girls there. Prior to joining First Baptist, she was a long-time member of Tabernacle Baptist Church located east of Gainesville.

She was devoted to her children and grandchildren and took special pleasure in visiting with her friends. She rarely missed a Sunday morning service, whether it was in person at First Baptist or by way of the televised service. She loved to travel and had visited the Holy Land (her favorite trip), Jamaica, Acapulco and Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, and many other places.

Serving as pallbearers are: Chris Hammond, Dustin Hutcherson, Craig Woolfolk, Nathaniel Waller-Grey, and Scott Sellers.