While surrounded by his family, Virgle Clyde Stillwell Jr., 80, of Cisco, TX passed through the veil and into eternity to be with his Heavenly Father and His son, our Savior, Jesus Christ, on May 16, 2023.
Services will be held Saturday, May 20th at Edwards Funeral Home Eastland at 2:00 PM. Visiting hours will be Saturday morning from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM. Burial will be held at Oakwood Cemetery in Cisco.
Virgle Clyde Stillwell Jr. was preceded in death by his parents, Virgle Clyde Stillwell and Drusilla Allene Phillips; and his fourth son Norman Earl Stillwell.
He is survived by his wife, Jamie Diane Stillwell; his two daughters, Diane Richerson and Jordona Perritt; six of his sons, Virgle Clyde Stillwell III, Jason Stillwell, Jared Stillwell, John Stillwell, Heath Stillwell, and Kenneth Stillwell; their spouses; eighteen grandchildren and nine great grandchildren; his brother Oliver H. Stillwell; along with numerous nieces and nephews.
Clyde was born in Kilgore, TX on April 6, 1943 and spent his early childhood traveling the world with his father who was in the U.S. Air Force. He had a proud memory of being a school crossing guard during the fourth and fifth grade. During middle school while his father was serving an unaccompanied assignment in Germany his mother moved the rest of the family to live with his Little Grannie Phillips on her 160 acre ancestral farm about eight miles northwest of Cisco, TX. His family moved to Hyattsville, MD in 1957 to rejoin his father for one year before moving back to his Little Grannie’s farm for the rest of his high school years while his father was serving in Japan. In August 1960, on his first band trip, he met the love of his life, Jamie Diane Rawson, who introduced him to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. In writing about his conversion, he noted that he was impressed by the things he had seen and heard from the missionaries. He also recorded that Jamie told him that she “loved me too much to marry me outside the temple because she could not bear the thought of having all the joys of marriage and family end with death.”
