Eloise Dromgoole moved peacefully from this world into her final resting place Saturday, April 4, 2009 at Jefferson Nursing and Rehabilitation Center on Pointe Parkway in Beaumont.
A native of Sweeney, Texas Eloise grew up in College Station where her father was a physics instructor at Texas A&M University. She also taught in the Biology Department at A&M after World War II. Eloise graduated from Texas Women’s University with degrees in Bacteriology and Medical Technology. She also worked in the University Hospital at Texas A&M where she met her first husband, Lee Roy Thompson.
Eloise began her high school teaching career at Yoe High School in Cameron, Texas. She continued teaching at the high school level after moving to Sour Lake in 1956. In 1978 she retired from Hardin-Jefferson School District to become a full-time minister’s wife to her second husband, Glenn A. Dromgoole.
Eloise is preceded in death by her husbands, Lee Roy Thompson and Glenn Dromgoole; grandson, Brett Johnson; granddaughter, Janet Dromgoole; and her parents, Myrtle and E.E. Vezey.
Left to cherish her memory and celebrate Eloise’s life are her children, Kenneth Thompson and his wife Dee, Lou Ann Johnson and her husband Ronald, Glenn Dromgoole and his wife Carol and Charlie Dromgoole and his wife Marilyn; grandchildren, Jennifer LeBow, Brian Johnson, Lisa Sledge, Laurie Moreland and Lindsay Sheppard; great grandchildren, Drew LeBow, Maridee LeBow, Beri LeBow, Traeger Johnson, Colson Sledge, Georgia Sledge, Juliet Sledge and Meredith Moreland; and her siblings, E.E. Vezey, Jr. of Center County, Stanley A. Vezey and his wife Eleanor of Athens, Georgia and Betty Nedderman and her husband Wendell of Arlington.
Her funeral service will be 2:00 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, 2009 at Calder Baptist Church with burial to follow at Pine Ridge Cemetery in Pine Ridge under the direction Broussard’s, 1605 North Major Drive, Beaumont. A gathering of her family and friends will be from 6:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m. Tuesday, April 7, 2009 at Broussard’s.
The family request that memorial contributions be made to Calder Baptist Church, 1005 North 11th Street, Beaumont, Texas 77702.
