Vada Mae Inglet Reynolds, age 86, of Bangs died Thursday, Jan. 3, 2013 at Oak Ridge Manor Nursing Home.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 5, at Bangs First Baptist Church with Pastors David Barnum and Rick Justice, her special friends who visited her regularly over the past years, conducting the services. Burial will follow in the Bangs Cemetery under the direction of Heartland Funeral Home of Early. Visitation will be held from 6-8 p.m. today (Friday) at the funeral home.
Vada was born on May 23, 1926 in Bangs, TX to Noah and Lula (Nelson) Inglet. The Inglet and Nelson families were both long time Brown County residents having moved to the Bangs area near the turn of the 20th century. From a young age, Vada worked with her dad on the family farm driving a hay rake and pulling cotton. She attended Bangs schools and then worked in the laundry at Camp Bowie during WWII. On December 22, 1945 Vada married Robert Reynolds who had just returned home from the war in Europe. They had a beautiful 51 year marriage before Robert passed away from Alzheimer’s in 1996.
Vada was a homemaker until her children were in high school and she then went to work at the Bangs school lunch room from where she retired 26 years later. Vada loved every school child and considered them all as ‘her kids’.
Vada worked diligently in her community for many years. She was a lifetime member of the Bangs American Legion Auxiliary, a member of the Lake Brownwood Lions Club, was in the Bangs PTC for many years, a den mother for the Cub Scouts and school room mother for her children. She was an active member of the Bangs First Baptist Church and volunteered countless hours at the Bangs Nursing Home, as well as providing rides to church, appointments and shopping trips for those unable to drive. Vada had a love for people and a passion for helping others.
She was a wonderful mother & grandmother and is survived by the family she loved so dearly, daughter, Betty Ellis and husband Jimmie; son, Bob Reynolds and wife Robin; grandchildren, Debbie Harris and husband Jeff and their children, Brennan & Colton; Zac Ellis and Colby Reynolds; niece Debbie Inglet; brother-in-law, Ivan Reynolds and a host of extended family and friends and especially all those she loved at Oak Ridge Manor. She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband and his parents Ed & Cynthia Reynolds; her brothers Bernay Inglet and Bob Inglet and his wife, Alice; a grandson, Robert James Ellis; and her nephew Mike Inglet.
Pallbearers will be her grandsons, great-grandsons and her cousin, Bo Inglet.
