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became fully remembers to send out birthday
licensed, working and sympathy cards to express love.
closely with them Mom will be the first to admit that
until Daddy’s it isn’t her doing these things; it is
death in 2009. We Jesus working His life through her
were working because she doesn’t “have that kind
with Randy King of energy” on her own.
as we opened
Grand Hearing She continues to support whatever
Center, with an her family is involved in. She
office again in watches televised Texas Tech games
Plainview. Mom and is the first to ask about the score
traveled with me of the Friday night game of the Boys
to that tiny little Ranch RoughRiders that Aaron
office space, and Wampler coaches. Nanny has been
we tested hearing in the closest seats of the Trinity
Polly with great-granddaughter Autumn and serviced Daycare Christmas programs and

hearing aids, with has diligently learned technology
her again being and how to see the baby’s pictures
the “smile” at the on her iPad.
were growing and was excited to front door for me. She has helped
tell of the newest activity they were us grow our business, and we I hope I have painted a beautiful
involved in. Sports, drama, choirs, now have two operating offices, in portrait of a wonderful lady, who
band performances, Boy Scouts, Lubbock and Plainview, servicing has impacted the small business
and art exhibits are just a few more than 1400 clients. Mom has community in West Texas in a quiet,
events she would brag on. When chosen to retire from working the peaceful manner; I am so very
we got the diagnosis of our son’s office in Lubbock, but on occasion, pleased to call her Mom, Nanny,
deafness when he was three, Mom she will fill in during our absence. and Friend. We know you likely
and Dad were there with a new set She still hands out cards at church have a Wonder Woman in your life;
of hearing aids for him, and both, and talks to her friends about why come share her with us. Thank you
promptly and without hesitation, they need to have their hearing for trusting us with your hearing
joined us in ASL (American Sign checked. health. We feel our patients are also
Language) classes because that is our family. We have been serving
how he would be learning in his I can now begin to tell you why your hearing needs for 45 years in
school classes. She still has current I feel she is a Wonder Woman the South Plains area.
pictures at her desk to show off the Mother. I watched as she was a
grandchildren, their spouses, and caregiver to her parents in their
now their babies! retirement years and how she Gayle (Wampler) Willson, BC-
HIS Board Certified in Hearing
so lovingly cared for my Dad’s
I joined them in business in 1996, mother who had Alzheimer’s. I Instrument Sciences
and a few years later, they decided have witnessed my mother make
it was time to retire, so they merged a casserole, with the last bit of Polly Wampler and Blair Willson
their Wampler Hearing Services ingredients from our house, for Grand Hearing Center Serving the
with another audiology group in someone who just came home from Plainview and Lubbock area
Lubbock. Daddy and I continued to the hospital, and take beautiful
work together, and Mom still had roses made from the ribbons on 812 W 8th 11-B Plainview / 3711 C
her desk at home, keeping records a funeral bouquet to the grieving 20th St. Lubbock, Texas.
of Daddy’s sales and keeping up family. Mom is the one who calls
with our clients. Phone: 806 288 8585, 806 438 8270
to find out how others are feeling,
The diagnosis of ALS in Daddy just because she hasn’t heard from
came in 2006, and at that time, I them lately, and who carefully

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