Margaret Ann Wendeborn

Margaret Ann Mahood Wendeborn passed away in her sleep on July 2, 2018, in her home town of Stamford, Texas. Margaret was born on August 2, 1933, to Robert and Violeta Tanner Mahood, and was the youngest of three siblings raised in Stamford, where she grew up and resided until beginning her marriage of 61 years to J C Wendeborn on February 27, 1954.  Shortly after their marriage, Margaret followed J C to the oil and gas fields of Farmington, New Mexico, where they welcomed and enjoyed raising their four sons. Margaret and J C returned home to the Stamford area upon J C’s retirement from El Paso Natural Gas Company in the spring of 1986.

While in Farmington, Margaret was a stay at home mom who was always volunteering her services to the community.   Margaret was the block chairperson for the Cancer Society, an Election Judge, a Cub Scout Leader and a Home Room mother. Margaret was a member of the Vietnam Club that made up and sent packages to soldiers. She was one of the original members of the Home Runners Club that organized and stocked the baseball concessions, as with a husband and 4 boys playing ball, Margaret spent nearly every summer night in a concession stand. As for the stay at home part, Margaret had 5 guys in the house playing 3 baseball games a week and had fresh cleaned uniforms on the end of the bed for each game. She got up early many a Sunday morning to help her sons roll up the Sunday morning edition of the Farmington Daily Times so that they could be delivered on their customers’ porches by 6 am.   Mom taught her sons to cook and clean and be respectful to her with the understanding that when they married it was not to a second mother but an equal partner.

Once back in Stamford, Margaret delivered meals through the “Meals on Wheels” program and she was an active member of the Sagerton Hobby club. Margaret was an accomplished seamstress and quilter. She loved to doodle, paint, and draw and would give amazing paintings to friends and family. These have become precious family heirlooms to many. Her second calling was raising dogs that wandered up to the house and helping J C with his cows.

Margaret is survived by four sons, John and wife, Taimi of Stamford, TX; Mark and wife, Cindy, of Farmington, NM; Jay and wife, Gloria, of Farmington, NM, and Lee of Phoenix, AZ; 10 grandchildren and 16 great grandchildren.

The Wendeborn Family will celebrate Margaret’s passing on Friday July 6, 2018 with a 10 am graveside service at Highland Memorial Cemetery in Stamford Texas, followed by a Memorial service at the Bethel Lutheran Church in Ericksdahl, Texas at 11am officiated by Pastor Richard Strait and under the direction of Tankersley Funeral Home. The family will be receiving friends at the funeral home at 807 S. Columbia, Stamford, Texas on Thursday from 4 until 6 p.m.

The family requests that in lieu of flowers that memorials be sent to the Hospice of the Big Country at 4601 Hartford, Abilene, Texas 79605.