Wanda Kay (Howard) Stagg

Decatur ~ Wanda Kay Stagg, 79, went to be with our Lord Saturday, October 29, 2022.

Graveside Service is 11:00 a.m. Wednesday, November 2, 2022 at Alvord Cemetery. Family will receive friends 9:30-10:30 a.m. Wednesday before the service at Hawkins Funeral Home in Decatur.

Rev. Bill Cleveland will officiate. Pallbearers include Jerry Cunningham, Terry Wilcox, Brent Glaze, David Dickey, Paul Cunningham, and Clifford Howard.

Wanda, known to most of her family as Kay, was born in Decatur, Texas and grew up in a large family with many brothers and sisters. She was saved at the age of 7 years while attending Vacation Bible School at the Fundamental Baptist Church in Decatur. Wanda graduated from the Decatur High School and met Lowell Stagg, who would become the love of her life. They married in Decatur, Texas on July 30, 1960 and moved to Alvord, Texas. She and Lowell would have a son, Kent, in the years to follow and she and Lowell would become members of the First Baptist Church in Alvord. Wanda worked at the Alvord Elementary School where she served as the Secretary to the Principal for the next 27 years. Wanda retired and she and Lowell moved back to Decatur where they would spend the rest of their days together.

Wanda was preceded in death by her grandparents Hershel and Fannie Hart Howard, and Jeff and Elizabeth Reynolds North; her parents, Clemma J. and Pearl Mae North Howard. Being the last remaining sibling in her large and loving family, she was also preceded in death by her brothers, C.J. Howard, Jr., Orville Driskell and Marvin Driskell; her sisters, Bobbie Tiller, Sue Dickey, and Govie Morris, but are once again reunited eternally in heaven.

Those left to cherish her memory are her loving husband of 62 years; their son, Lowell Kent Stagg; her granddaughter, Savannah Caitlin Stagg; her brother-in-law, Jack Tiller of Lewsiville; her niece, Debbie Tabor and husband Tony; nephews, Jerry Cunningham and wife Kathy, Paul Cunningham and wife Debra, and David & Bubba Dickey; nieces, Charlotte Wilcox and husband Terry, and Becky Glaze; her sister-in-law, Nada Howard; numerous many other nieces and nephews, cousins, and a host of friends. Kay did love her family and she will be sorely missed.