Olga Marie Wade

ODESSA — Olga Marie Wade was born on July 12, 1927, in Diriamba, Nicaragua, to David and Lilian Abdallah. She passed away on May 25, 2004. She was 76. Olga married Arvin Bernard Wade in the Catholic Church at Killeen, Texas, on December 23, 1955. December would have made 49 years.
She was educated in Nicaragua.
She had friends at the United Nations Headquarters in New York and at several embassies in Washington, D.C. She was a member of the International Women’s United Nations Club in the 1960s and enjoyed having teas and meetings in her home. She had a gift for arts and crafts and she liked for children to be safe and happy. Children would sense this and liked being around her. Her recommendation to them was always to act educated and she always threw the bashiest birthday parties for her children and grandson, inviting everyone on the block whether they had a present to give or not. She learned English by the listen and talk method, at first carrying an English-Spanish dictionary with her most of the time. She deeply loved her family and we deeply love her. She always trusted in God and told people not to worry. She was a military wife and traveled halfway around the world. When asked where she would most like to live, she answered, “I like it where he likes it.” She cultivated a taste for western music and made a point to see the SandHills Rodeo. She also liked going dancing all night with her husband and in her later years watching the Lawrence Welk show with him. She also liked Liberace because he sang to his mother. She was very patriotic and once told the Odessa American that she considered Americans to be friendly and eager to offer explanations of new things to her, like U.S. appliances, and salespeople.
Her parents; sister, Susannah Castrillo; brother, Salvador Abdallah; and sister-in-law, Oveta Wulle preceded her in death.
She is survived by her husband, Arvin Bernard Wade, daughter, Claudia Carey, son, Victor Wade, and grandson, Rickey Carey Jr., all of Odessa; sister, Milady Chatman and her husband Clifton William “Tex” of Houston; sister-In-law, Ilenia Dexter of Crawfordsville, Ind.; brother-In-law, Alfred R. Wulle of Monticello, Ind.; and several nieces and nephews and grandnieces and grandnephews.
A prayer service will be held at 7 p.m. Thursday at Sunset Funeral Home. Mass will be Friday, May 28, 2004, at 11 a.m. at St Mary’s Catholic Church with Father Francis Frey officiating. Burial will follow at Sunset Memorial Gardens Cemetery with Father Francis Frey officiating.
A special thanks to the paramedic, MCH Emergency Room Staff and ICU who had already saved her life once and almost saved it twice.
Services are entrusted to Sunset Memorial Funeral Home.