OAKFIELD and WICHITA FALLS, Texas – Thelma Wilmot Cline was called home Jan. 26, 2011, in Texas. Born April 11, 1924, she grew up in Oakfield.
Thelma graduated in 1942. She met her husband in Massachusetts during World War II, living in Kansas, Oklahoma and Texas during their 60-year marriage. Never losing love for her home state, she visited often, engraining in a daughter a love so strong she now spends half the year here.
She was predeceased by parents, Charles and Florence Wilmot of Oakfield; her husband, Jim Cline of Texas; and five of six siblings, Phyllis Crandall, George Wilmot, Edith Carrier, Clair Wilmot and Edgar Wilmot. She is survived by two loving daughters, Diane Balcom and husband, Ron, of Lawton, Okla., and Penny Farrar and husband, Monty, of Granbury, Texas; two sons, Jimmie and Randy of Texas; three grandchildren, Mike Balcom and wife, Ilia, of Florida, Todd Balcom and wife, Holly, of Oklahoma and Carri Darnell of Texas; five great-grandchildren, Molly and Madison Darnell, Cayden and Alec Balcom and Jessica Balcom; one sister, Evelyn Gradie of Florida; a very special niece, Jayne Branscombe of Bangor; and numerous family in Maine and California.
There will be a memorial service this summer at Oakfield Cemetery, where her ashes will be interred near her dear parents and favorite sister, Phyllis.