Wanda Yvonne Chenault November 21, 1937 ~ December 23, 2020 (age 83)

Obituary

Funeral services for Wanda Chenault, 83, a longtime resident of Elida, will be held at 2:00 PM, Tues., Dec. 29, 202 at the Elida Baptist Church with Rev. Herb Gage officiating.  Burial will follow in the Elida Cemetery with her grandchildren serving as pallbearers. Her dear friends, Chris Merrick, Ruth Moore and Maxine Smith have been named as honorary pallbearers.

Wanda Yvonne Chenault was born Nov. 21, 1937 in Portales to the home of Ina Matilda (Sanders) and Cecil Jasper Joiner, and died Dec. 23, 2020 in Portales, NM.  While she was growing up, the family lived in several different communities in the area.  On Feb. 11, 1956, at the Dora Church of Christ, she was married to Ellis “Wayne” Chenault.  Later that same spring she graduated from Dora High School.  Soon after they were married, the Chenaults lived in Clovis for a short time, but soon settled in Elida, where they lived the remainder of their lives.  In 1970, she became a Rural Mail Carrier on the East Star Route, in conjunction with her husband who ran two other routes.  Mrs. Chenault had been retired since 2014.

Wanda was very active for many years in the Elida Homemaker’s Club, and showed a number of things in the Roosevelt County Fair.  She enjoyed gardening, and a variety of crafts such as sewing and painting.  She loved all sorts of animals from frogs and turtles to cows.  She had countless turtles in her back yard.  Her family said that she could milk a cow faster than anyone else in the family.  She was a member of the Elida Baptist Church.

She is survived by her sons and daughters-in-law, Dwayne and Sandy Chenault of Lubbock, TX, Darrell and Venetia Chenault of Elida, NM and Darwin and Sheri Chenault of Floyd, NM; her daughter and son-in-law, Darla and Kenny Reed of Portales; 15 grandchildren and 25 great-grandchildren and another on the way.  Wanda is also survived by two sisters-in-law, Myrl (Bobbie) Davis and Sylvia (Jack) Pape.  She was preceded in death by her parents, a daughter, Debbie Wilson who died in 1992, and by her beloved husband, Wayne who died Aug. 27, 2013.