Beatrice Lilian Proctor
April 5, 1925 – March 2, 2016
BOWIE – Beatrice Lilian Proctor, 90, “Our English Rose” went to the arms of her Lord on March 2, 2016 in Bowie, TX.
The family will receive friends from 6-8 p.m. March 5 at The White Family Funeral Home.
A funeral service will be at 2 p.m. March 6 at the First Baptist Church of Sunset. Burial will follow at Sunset Cemetery.
Beatrice was born April 5, 1925 in Chelveston, England to Doris Mae and George Arthur Tilley. She was a gracious and devoted wife, mother, grandmother, friend, poet and author.
Beatrice was an angel to all who knew her and would win your heart if you knew her for a day or a lifetime.
She touched countless lives as an active member and Sunday School teacher at Sunset Baptist Church for 65 years. Her faith never wavered.
Beatrice married Homer Wilson Proctor on Sept. 16, 1944 in Higham Ferrers, England. As a World War II bride, she rode the Queen Mary in 1946 to join her husband in Sunset to continue their timeless love story.
She wrote several books to chronicle her transformation from English girl to Texas matriarch. Beatrice considered her four children her greatest joy and blessing, and showered them with never ending love, support and guidance.
After her many years as an accomplished mother and homemaker, she enjoyed working at Griffin’s Drug Store, volunteering as a “Pink Lady” for Memorial Hospital and for Hospice Thrift Store as a cashier. She enjoyed her last days talking and playing cards at the Independence Hall.
She is preceded in death by her beloved husband Homer Proctor in 1999; and sister, Hazel.
Beatrice is survived by her children, Roy Proctor and wife Linda, Bowie, Donnie Proctor, Sunset, Jeanie Stark and husband Ralph, Bowie, and Mary Anne Holmes and husband Judson, Bloomington, IN; sister, Gill Papworth, England; brother, Ronald Tilley, Florida; grandchildren, Sheila, Randy, Rowdy, Amber, Mari, Dylan, Chelsea, Hannah, Hayden and Houston; 18 great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces and nephews.
Arrangements have been entrusted to The White Family Funeral Home of Bowie.
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