Eaton-Craig Stationery is for sale. The business remains open and continues to provide quality office supplies, copies, and printing services.
I volunteered with Billie Eaton in the early 1980s through the Plainview Chamber of Commerce. She was a powerful businesswoman who supported her community.
Billie Bloom Eaton died on July 24, 2015, in Birmingham, Alabama. The daughter of Dr. Canute Gustavus Bloom and Lelan Monta Wheeler Bloom, she was born on Nov. 10, 1916, in Baird, Texas, at the home of her grandparents. She spent her early years in Thurber, Texas, where her father was the dentist for the Texas Coal Company. In 1920, her family moved to Lubbock, where her father established a dental practice. After his death in 1922, her mother moved her family back to Baird, where they lived for ten years. After returning to Lubbock in 1932, Mrs. Eaton graduated from Lubbock High School and Texas Tech College, where she received a BS degree in home economics with a concentration in clothing and textiles. Following her marriage on Christmas Day 1938 to Wilmot Eaton, she lived in Lubbock, where she ran a weaving project for the Works Progress Administration. When her husband, an instructor with the Civilian Pilot Training program at Breedlove Field during World War II, joined American Airlines as a pilot, the couple moved to Fort Worth. They returned to the South Plains in 1946 when they acquired Thatcher Printing Company, subsequently Eaton Stationery Company, in Plainview. Mrs. Eaton enjoyed several creative pursuits during her child-raising years: couture clothing design and construction, gardening, especially in her rose and bearded iris cutting gardens, and painting. During the 1970s, she and her husband traveled extensively, visiting countries around the world. Following Mr. Eaton's death in 1983, she moved to San Antonio, where she was involved with Christ Episcopal Church and continued to travel and garden. A devoted daughter, she cared for her mother, who lived with her until her mother's death at 103.
This is an obituary that is historically strong.
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