Prince, Wynona Kirl

Funeral services for Wynona Kirl Prince, 84, of Longview, will be 4 p.m. Tuesday, September 
4, 2007, at the chapel of Rader Funeral Home of Longview. Interment will be in Memory Park 
Cemetery. She passed way Saturday, September 1, 2007.

Wynona was born October 6, 1922, in Eunice, Louisiana. She moved to Longview as a young girl, 
attending local schools and graduating from Pine Tree High School. She attended business 
school and was employed with Southwestern Bell Telephone for eight years. In 1967, she began 
working for LeTourneau University as circulation/reference librarian and retired in 1992.

Wynona was a loving and devoted mother, grandmother, great-grandmother, aunt and friend to 
all.

Wynona was preceded in death by her first husband, Captain Robert Swanzy; sisters, Winifred 
O. Ross, Wilbur "Dean" Taunton, Billie Christian and Alice Wood; brothers, Claiborn and Fred 
Kirl; and parents, Fred Louis Kirl and Mary Ollie Kirl Conley.

Those left to cherish her memory are daughters, Carolyn Brewer and her husband, Ralph "Pete," 
of White Oak and Holly Shaw and her husband, David, of Kingwood, Texas; Holly's father, C. 
Earl Prince of Longview; brother, Huey P. Kirl of Daingerfield, Texas; grandsons, Jim D. 
Brewer and wife, Stephanie, Clayton Shaw and Zachary Shaw; granddaughter, Janie Brewer; 
great-grandchildren, Sarah and Eric DeLaPaz, and Ashley and Ali Brewer; and numerous nieces 
and nephews.

Visitation with the family will be 3-4 p.m. Tuesday, September 4, prior to the service.

A memorial guestbook may be signed online at www.raderfh.com

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 9/3/2007.