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Deryl Shawver '70 July 2, 2019 8:13 AM updated: July 2, 2019 8:16 AM
Seymour Memorial Funeral Home obituary
200 South Cedar Street
Seymour, TX76380
(940) 888-3124
Deryl Branch Shawver
December 21, 1947 - June 24, 2019
Captain Deryl Branch Shawver, age 71, passed away at home, peacefully surrounded by his loving family.
Deryl didn't like flying, Texas A&M, or Texas for that matter, not one bit. He unabashedly loved them!
Disregard the fact that he resided in Arizona the past 34 years. It was an inconvenient detail he did not want to be reminded of at any time. Born December 21, 1947, in Seymour, Texas, he was the eldest son of a long line of proud ranching Texans. As any respectable Texan, he attended Texas A&M University. He was forever disappointed that none of his children chose to be Aggies. After graduation, in 1971, with his eye always on the sky rather than the land, Deryl joined the United States Air Force. He became an accomplished pilot and served a tour in Vietnam, who performed dangerous electronic warfare reconnaissance. While in the Air Force, he met and married the love of his life, Debra, the prettiest Flight Nurse on base. Deryl left the Air Force to pursue a career as a commercial airline pilot. He came to Arizona to work for a start up airline,
America West Airlines, where he retired as a Boeing 757 Captain and Check Airman Pilot in 2012. In his spare time, he traipsed the world with his brother Meryl, in search of WW II airplanes. He loved the P51 Mustang.
To his children, he was also an expert orange peeler, snake slayer, master of breakfast( if it was eggs only),
collector of clocks, and could always be counted on for night trips to the airport to watch airplanes take off and land. He was also the instigator of many non-mom approved activities such as but not limited to: off-roading in the desert in an old Army jeep, a gopher catch and release program, and water gun fights in the house. He instigated an episode of scaring Mom with an old plastic realistic frog in the living room and many more fun episodes too numerous to count.
He instilled in his family a love of Alaska, fishing, airplanes and adventures.
Deryl is survived by his wife, Debra Ann Shawver, brother Meryl Jack Shawver, and three children, Michelle, Todd and Chad Shawver. He is preceded in death by his father George Shawver.
Not one for many words, he did once say there was no feeling like being at the controls of a jet, especially the B575 and his T38 fighter trainer. And as for his family, there is no other feeling of loss and an emptiness in losing him.
Service
Traditional
Seymour Memorial Funeral Home Chapel
200 S. Cedar St.
Seymour, TX 76380
Monday, July 1, 2019
2 P.M.
Interment
Riverview Cemetery
Seymour, TX 76380
200 South Cedar Street
Seymour, TX76380
(940) 888-3124
Deryl Branch Shawver
December 21, 1947 - June 24, 2019
Captain Deryl Branch Shawver, age 71, passed away at home, peacefully surrounded by his loving family.
Deryl didn't like flying, Texas A&M, or Texas for that matter, not one bit. He unabashedly loved them!
Disregard the fact that he resided in Arizona the past 34 years. It was an inconvenient detail he did not want to be reminded of at any time. Born December 21, 1947, in Seymour, Texas, he was the eldest son of a long line of proud ranching Texans. As any respectable Texan, he attended Texas A&M University. He was forever disappointed that none of his children chose to be Aggies. After graduation, in 1971, with his eye always on the sky rather than the land, Deryl joined the United States Air Force. He became an accomplished pilot and served a tour in Vietnam, who performed dangerous electronic warfare reconnaissance. While in the Air Force, he met and married the love of his life, Debra, the prettiest Flight Nurse on base. Deryl left the Air Force to pursue a career as a commercial airline pilot. He came to Arizona to work for a start up airline,
America West Airlines, where he retired as a Boeing 757 Captain and Check Airman Pilot in 2012. In his spare time, he traipsed the world with his brother Meryl, in search of WW II airplanes. He loved the P51 Mustang.
To his children, he was also an expert orange peeler, snake slayer, master of breakfast( if it was eggs only),
collector of clocks, and could always be counted on for night trips to the airport to watch airplanes take off and land. He was also the instigator of many non-mom approved activities such as but not limited to: off-roading in the desert in an old Army jeep, a gopher catch and release program, and water gun fights in the house. He instigated an episode of scaring Mom with an old plastic realistic frog in the living room and many more fun episodes too numerous to count.
He instilled in his family a love of Alaska, fishing, airplanes and adventures.
Deryl is survived by his wife, Debra Ann Shawver, brother Meryl Jack Shawver, and three children, Michelle, Todd and Chad Shawver. He is preceded in death by his father George Shawver.
Not one for many words, he did once say there was no feeling like being at the controls of a jet, especially the B575 and his T38 fighter trainer. And as for his family, there is no other feeling of loss and an emptiness in losing him.
Service
Traditional
Seymour Memorial Funeral Home Chapel
200 S. Cedar St.
Seymour, TX 76380
Monday, July 1, 2019
2 P.M.
Interment
Riverview Cemetery
Seymour, TX 76380
505 George Bush Drive
College Station, TX 77840
(979) 845-7514
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