Funeral services for Virginia L. (Stephens) Surley, 88, will be at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Heartland Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Don Scott and Priscilla Monson officiating. Burial will follow in Eastlawn Memorial Park.
Mrs. Surley died at 9:29 a.m. Sunday, March 17, 2024, at Oak Ridge Manor after a brief illness.
She was born May 3, 1935, in Vasilia, near Tulare, California, the daughter of the late J. Harold and D. Louise (Patterson) Stephens. She grew up in Plainview, Texas, where she graduated from high school in 1953. She attended Wayland Baptist College in Plainview and was a certified LVN for more than 35 years in both Plainview and Brownwood before retiring in 1999 from Brownwood Regional Medical Center. She moved to Brownwood in 1976.
She was a member of the First Methodist Church and active with the Brown County Historical Society.
On October 18, 1953, she married Orville Clyde Surley in Plainview. He died on December 28, 2000.
Survivors include her two sons and daughters-in-law, Arnold and Pamela Surley of San Angelo and Morris and Carol Surley of Brownwood; one daughter and son-in-law, Leslie Surley Kostrikin and Daniel Kostrikin of El Dorado Hills, California; one brother and sister-in-law, Thomas and Lee Stephens of Idaho Springs, Colorado; brother-in-law Curtis Surley of Plainview and her other brother-in-law and wife, Eldon and Barbara Surley of Colleyville; four grandchildren; and eight great-grandchildren.
The family will receive family and friends from 6-8 p.m. Wednesday at the funeral home.
The family suggests memorials to the American Cancer Society or First Methodist Church or Brownwood, 2500 11th Street, Brownwood, 76801.
Condolences, memories, and tributes can be offered to the Surley family online at heartlandfuneralhome.com