Tencie Marie (Horton) Whitlock, 81, of Valley Mills,
Texas, went to be with our Lord on March 6, 2021. Funeral Services will be 1:00
pm Monday March 15, 2021 at Bellmead Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow at
Wortham Bend Cemetery. Visitation will be from 3-5:00 pm Sunday March 14, 2021
at Bellmead Funeral Home.
Tencie was born to parents William Harvey Horton and
Artence Bailey Horton Wetch on August 5, 1939, outside of Waco, Texas. Her
father was a farmer and Tencie and her siblings would pick cotton in the
summers to help their father. They would live in the old farmhouses that were
on the land that her father was farming. She married the love of her life, Rick
Whitlock on August 7, 1975.
Tencie was a loving and devoted wife, mother and
Nanny. Her favorite activity was spending time with and spoiling her
grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She was known as Nanny to her
grandchildren and great-grandchildren and all of their friends.
Tencie was preceded in death by her parents, her
brother, Walter Horton, her daughters, Juanita Marie Russell and Sherrie
Frazier, her grandson, Clayton Frazier, and her great-grandson Thesius Rundell.
She is survived by her husband, Rick Whitlock; her daughter Deborah Barker and
her husband Charlie, her sons Arthur Russell and Terry Rogers; her son-in-law,
Daniel Frazier, her sisters, Jean Tice, Caroline Biediger and Roxie Jackson and
her husband Bill; brothers, Ray Horton, Trilton Horton, Donald Horton and Ricky
Wetch and his wife Beth; grandchildren William Travers, David Barker, April
Rogers, Carmen Rogers, Ashley Frazier, Kelsey Frazier, Morgan Martinez and her
husband Samuel and Colton Frazier; 8 great-grandchildren and numerous cousins
and nieces and nephews.