Our loving father
October 7,1911 - September 7, 1999
Floyd Martin Wells came into the world on October 7, 1911 in a small wooden house near Mambrino in Hood County, Texas. Born to pioneering stock, he grew to be a young man while working the soil alongside his family. Upon his father's death, a year prior to the great depression, he was left to care for his mother and two younger brothers, turning his self-acquired knowledge of automobile mechanics into wages and the prelude to a rewarding career in the oil field. With his first wife, Mary Smith, he had Patricia, who blessed Floyd with three grandchildren and four great grandchildren and who remains a loving and devoted daughter. On OCtober 19, 1942, he married Helen Yule who gave him three daughters, Karen, Kristi,and Lisa and two grandchildren through Kristi.
His lineage is now documented, thanks to his ardent effort to study his and Helen's genealogy back to the American Revolution and farther still. Floyd had a wanderlust spirit which led him to work in the oil fields of such exotic lands a Lebanon and Brazil and to tour the United States extensively with his fortunate family. In his retirement, he volunteered hundreds of hours at Long Beach Memorial Medical Center and also expressed his creative talents through jewelry making and lapidary.
Floyd was a loving father and devoted husband who would have done anything to care for his wife and daughters.
The girl I married
March 31, 1921 - July 8, 1992
Helen Marie (Yule) Wells was born on March 31, 1921, in Murphysboro, Illinois. She married Floyd M. Wells on October 19, 1942 in Dallas, Texas. She lost a hard-fought battle with cancer on July 8, 1992 at 9:57 p.m. in her home in Long Beach, California where she and Floyd lived for over 40 years and where they raised their three daughters, Karen, Kristi, and Lisa.
Helen was a graduate of North Texas State University in the music department where she sang in the acappella choir. She loved to sing and nurtured a love for music in her children. She was artistic in many ways--painting, knitting, crocheting, quilting, sewing--and enriched our lives with her talents. Helen had a love for learning and inspired the development of inquiring minds in her children. she continually gave of herself and her time to support our individual pursuits. For 11 years, she and Floyd volunteered their time to help others at Long Beach Memorial Hospital.
We will always remember her for her unconditional love of us. We have learned how to love better because of what she taught so well.
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