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Pearline Huggins

November 8, 1918 - February 9, 2007

MANSFIELD -- Pearline D. Huggins, 88, died Friday, Feb. 9, 2007, at 7:45 a.m. at home in Mansfield. Funeral: 2 p.m. Sunday at Blessing Colonial Chapel. Burial: Mansfield Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Blessing Funeral Home. Pearline was born Nov. 8, 1918, in Omaha, Texas, to parents, Albert Dickerson and Alma Lillie Cooper Dickerson. Pearline married William H. "Bill" Huggins on Feb. 22 1941. Bill, a master plumber, preceded her in death in 1994. Pearline was a breeder of registered Poland China Hogs in Mansfield for 25 years. Pearline fed her stock her own special feed for disease-free hogs. The University of Oklahoma studied her methods as well as students from Mansfield High School. Little piglets were given birth on beds of clean straw in a special birthing barn. Bill, their son, John Wayne, and Pearline competed many times at the Fort Worth Stock Show. They raised many local, state and national champions with their stock. Pearline was also a homemaker who excelled in cooking and sewing. She enjoyed fishing and bird hunting. Her favorite hobby was tube fishing in Lake Texoma for catfish. During the last three years of her life she was limited to a wheelchair, but she traveled with her niece, Brenda Smith, and her spouse, David, back and forth between Mansfield and Kaysville, Utah. She was able to visit her sisters in North Las Vegas, Nev., and Tulare, Calif., as well as friends and other places along the way. Pearline loved living her life in spite of hardships that she was able to overcome. She loved her family and many friends. She could make any stranger a friend with her smile, voice and gift of conversation. Pearline will be missed so much. She was preceded in death by her husband of 53 years and brothers, Horace and Marlin Dickerson. Survivors: Son, John Wayne Huggins and Kay Huggins of Milan; granddaughter, Mary Lynn Huggins Kendrick, and her sons, Kyle Jacob Kendrick and Chase William Kendrick of Victoria; granddaughter, Brandy King and spouse, Matt, and their son, Aden King; sisters, Myrtle Lee Braddy of North Las Vegas, Nev., and Opal Mae Brown of Tulare, Calif.; several nieces and nephews; and best friend and sister-in-law, Gerry Huggins of Granbury.

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MANSFIELD -- Pearline D. Huggins, 88, died Friday, Feb. 9, 2007, at 7:45 a.m. at home in Mansfield. Funeral: 2 p.m. Sunday at Blessing Colonial Chapel. Burial: Mansfield Cemetery. Visitation: 6 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Blessing Funeral Home.... View Obituary & Service Information

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