Services will be 10:00 am Thursday,
November 17, 2016 at Bellmead Funeral Home Chapel. Graveside services will be 1:30 pm at
Sunnyside Cemetery in Calvert, Texas. Pastors Jason McCash and Jimmy Cotton
will officiate.
Flora was born April 2, 1931 in
Robertson County, Texas to Jim and Mittie (Rivers) Uptmore. She managed the PX
at James Connally AFB and later managed the TSTC Bookstore, retiring in 2008.
She was a member of Timbercrest Baptist Church, where she taught children's
classes and served as Sunday School Superintendent. She was also a member Order
of the Eastern Star and served as Worthy Matron.
Flora was preceded in death by her
parents; grandchildren, Traci Grant and Justin Tharp; and son, Rick Darwin.
Survivors include her husband of 55
years, James Darwin; daughters, Linda Grant and husband, Glynn Harris and
Debbie Tharp and husband, David; sons, Jackie Ewert, James Keith Darwin and
wife, Eliana and Terry Darwin; grandchildren, Jami Lowry and husband, Bret,
James Grant and wife, Averie, Jacob Tharp, Christian Darwin and Joshua Darwin; great
grandchildren, Cort, Traci Claire, Allison, Cori Lynne, Luke and Brooke. She
took great joy in spending time with them.
Please sign the online guestbook at www.bellmeadfuneralhome.com