Robert Wesley Giddens

CLARKSVILLE — Robert Wesley Giddens, 92, of Clarksville went to be with Lord Jesus on Tuesday, Oct. 15, 2002, in East Texas Medical Center.

Funeral services are set for 2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 18, in the Lindeman Chapel of Clarksville Funeral Home. Interment will follow in Stone’s Chapel Cemetery under the direction of Clarksville Funeral Home.

The family will receive friends from 6 to 8 p.m. Thursday at the funeral home.

He was born Sept. 6, 1910, in Red River County, to Francie Marion and Alice Crabtree Giddens. He was a retired heavy equipment operator.

He was a past member of the IOOF and a member of the College Avenue Baptist Church.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Hazel Maxine Watson Giddens; daughter, Alice Fay Collins; one brother; and one sister.

Survivors include his sons, James Marion “Jim” Giddens and wife, Linda Sue, of Paris; son-in-law, Ed Collins of Amarillo; Loretta Mae Kilmer and husband, Ernest, of Rockport; sister-in-law, Tommie Jean Childers of Clarksville; brother, George M. Giddens and wife, Rebecca, of Clarksville; eight grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren; and two great-great-grandchildren.