Roy Gene Edwards

Graveside Service will be held at 11am, Monday, April 24, 2023, at Bosley Cemetery in Santo, Texas. Visitation 3-5pm, Sunday, April 23, 2023 at Wiley Funeral Home in Granbury, Texas. 

Roy Gene Edwards, 79, passed away Friday, April 14, 2023, at his home in Lipan, Texas.  He was born March 11, 1944, in Santo, TX to Robert Lee and Bertha Lee Edwards.

Roy enjoyed rodeoing and ranching and loved being a part of the masonic lodge.  He is survived by sons, Monty Edwards and his wife Shandon of Weatherford, TX and Marty Edwards.

Roy was born in Santo, Tx where he went to school before moving west, to Amherst, Texas where he played tight end on a 6-man football and according to his peers very good at it. He loved to play football and rodeo. Eventually he ended up in Littlefield, TX where he met the love of his life Glenda Beth MacWilliams.  He chased her down, against her fathers wishes, all the way to Airline Stewardess school and asked her to marry him.

While in Littlefield he worked for a while at a blacksmith shop with his father and rodeoed with his cousin Jim Bob.  They were as close as brothers and ended up rodeoing all over the country from New Mexico to Fort Worth.  They ran around rodeoing and exploring old ghost stories of hidden treasure in local caves and doing things will go with them to their graves. Roy used to tell stories about his and Jim Bob’s names are still carved in caves between Santo and Lone Camp, TX.

Roy also worked for a man named Bill Adair running Keenan cattle in Poolville, TX.  Stories he would tell included bottle-feeding baby calves in the laundry room because it was too cold for them outside.  After that he went to work for Schutt’s Land and Cattle in Lipan, TX running and working Beefmaster cattle and for the McDowell Beefmasters ranch.  He would complain about it every day but he wouldn’t change one second of how he lived his life working cows and horses.

In between all of this Roy and Glenda settled in Lipan, TX and brought two sons into the world.  Marty and Monty Edwards, who they loved and raised in the best way they knew how to and were very proud of.

Roy eventually ended up working for Hood County Road and Bridge for 20 years along with working the ranch.  He was also a proud member of the Masonic Lodge where he loved going to meetings every 3^rd Thursday of the month.

He retired from the county and lived his life the way he wanted to in our home in Lipan.  He could be hard to take at times and he was ornery.  But he loved everyone and always made sure everyone was having a good time by telling his stories to anyone who would listen.”