1952
Paul
2011
Paul R. Newell
February 9, 1952 — June 2, 2011
Age 59 passed away suddenly in Richardson, Texas June 2, 2011. He was born February 9, 1952 in El Dorado, Kansas to parents Richard Blake and Denise Marie (Beaudequin) Newell.
Paul was a software engineer for Anchor Computer Software. He enjoyed photography and wood working. He was a member of the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas, TX. He is a member of the Cornerstone United Methodist Church in Garland, Tx.
Paul is survived by his wife of 34 years, Pam (Muse) Newell, daughters; Amanda Newell and Rozy Newell and her fiancée, Jeremy Hammons, granddaughter, Adiana Hammons, mother, Denise Marie Newell, sister, Susan Marie Portman and her husband Glenn. Paul is preceded in death by his father, Richard Blake Newell and mny, many other family and friends.
VISITATION will be 6 " 8 P.M. Friday, June 3, 2011, Charles W Smith and Sons Sachse Chapel, 2925 Fifth St, Sachse, Texas 75048, 972-414-5050.
FUNERAL SERVICE 5:00 P.M. Saturday June 5, 2011, Cornerstone United Methodist Church, 7502 North Garland Rd, Garland, Texas 75044.
The following is a letter from Pam.
His favorite chapter of the Bible was 1 Corinthians 13 and he lived this everyday as best he or any person could. For 34 years I witnessed his love for God, for me, for our daughters for the church, for friends and for his fellow man. Paul was the love of my life, truly my best friend. He was one of the most compassionate, giving people you could ever want to meet. When a stranger asked him for money he never questioned them, he always said that God told us to take care of those in need so he tried his best.
I realize the scripture is usually used for weddings but it describes him so well that I have to put the words here.
"If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing."
"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love."
Paul was not just about the more well known parts of this chapter, but really believed it all…if love was not in what you were doing you were just making noise and you gain nothing and he truly believed that he would get to ask all those questions that each of us ask every day, and his knowledge would be complete and he would know fully.
He loved his girls, they were his pride and joy. Each time the girls told him or wrote him that they loved him he would just beam. I am not sure they really know how much he loved them but his only goal for each of them was to find happiness and love for their lives. He was so ecstatic that they both chose to go to college and further their educations even though his main goal for them was to just have a happy life. He was so looking forward to watching Amanda graduate and for Rozy to start her new life as a wife and mother. I know that he will continue to watch over both of them and help them make the right choices in life. His handprints are all over both of the girls (though they probably don’t really see it) and he did a wonderful job as a father of teens.
Paul was gifted with a great deal of intelligence and could never get enough knowledge of history, particularly biblical history. He always felt that if you understood what was going on at the time, the Bible made more sense. He loved being in Bible studies and delving into the meaning of the scriptures and then connected that with the history that he had learned over the years. His library is a testament to the days he spent reading and learning.
He was an avid and I believe talented woodworker and found joy in making things with his hands but he also found much joy in creating things with his mind, as a software engineer, he often told me that writing software was like creating art for him. He could see it in his mind and then he could translate it to code and make something that worked and was beautiful to him.
Paul was such a tease (his mother tells me it started the day he was born); and he could make me laugh on any day, not matter what had happened or how bad it was. He could always find a way to make me feel better and to laugh out loud. I will have be watching for his teasing because I know he will still be out there doing silly things to make me laugh in the days ahead like he has for the last 34 years.
It is hard to sum up the life of a man that filled each and every nook of my being, these are just words, but he brought life to me each and every day. Unlike many marriages ours was like magic, yes we had our ups and downs but they were mostly ups. On more than one occasion I was told that when I talked about Paul and what we had together it was like hearing a fairytale or magic. And it was magic and Paul gave me the fairytale life and provided the magic every day, but today I have lost some of that magic. I know that I will see him again and I will get the magic back, but it is so hard right now and I can only keep saying "What would Paul have wanted me to do?" and pray that God guides each and every one of my steps until I get to be with Paul again.
Thank you all for the love you have shown to Paul and to us, his family, in this time of loss. We know that the future days are not going to be easy and we will need to fall back on those that love us and Paul so much. - Pam Newell -
MEMORIAL DONATIONS MAY BE MADE IN HONOR OF PAUL TO; CORNERSTONE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.
Paul was a software engineer for Anchor Computer Software. He enjoyed photography and wood working. He was a member of the Texas Astronomical Society of Dallas, TX. He is a member of the Cornerstone United Methodist Church in Garland, Tx.
Paul is survived by his wife of 34 years, Pam (Muse) Newell, daughters; Amanda Newell and Rozy Newell and her fiancée, Jeremy Hammons, granddaughter, Adiana Hammons, mother, Denise Marie Newell, sister, Susan Marie Portman and her husband Glenn. Paul is preceded in death by his father, Richard Blake Newell and mny, many other family and friends.
VISITATION will be 6 " 8 P.M. Friday, June 3, 2011, Charles W Smith and Sons Sachse Chapel, 2925 Fifth St, Sachse, Texas 75048, 972-414-5050.
FUNERAL SERVICE 5:00 P.M. Saturday June 5, 2011, Cornerstone United Methodist Church, 7502 North Garland Rd, Garland, Texas 75044.
The following is a letter from Pam.
His favorite chapter of the Bible was 1 Corinthians 13 and he lived this everyday as best he or any person could. For 34 years I witnessed his love for God, for me, for our daughters for the church, for friends and for his fellow man. Paul was the love of my life, truly my best friend. He was one of the most compassionate, giving people you could ever want to meet. When a stranger asked him for money he never questioned them, he always said that God told us to take care of those in need so he tried his best.
I realize the scripture is usually used for weddings but it describes him so well that I have to put the words here.
"If I speak in the tongues of mortals and of angels, but do not have love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. If I give away all my possessions, and if I hand over my body so that I may boast, but do not have love, I gain nothing."
"Love is patient; love is kind; love is not envious or boastful or arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; it does not rejoice in wrongdoing, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things. Love never ends. But as for prophecies, they will come to an end; as for tongues, they will cease; as for knowledge, it will come to an end. For we know only in part, and we prophesy only in part; but when the complete comes, the partial will come to an end. When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child; when I became an adult, I put an end to childish ways. For now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then we will see face to face. Now I know only in part; then I will know fully, even as I have been fully known. And now faith, hope, and love abide, these three; and the greatest of these is love."
Paul was not just about the more well known parts of this chapter, but really believed it all…if love was not in what you were doing you were just making noise and you gain nothing and he truly believed that he would get to ask all those questions that each of us ask every day, and his knowledge would be complete and he would know fully.
He loved his girls, they were his pride and joy. Each time the girls told him or wrote him that they loved him he would just beam. I am not sure they really know how much he loved them but his only goal for each of them was to find happiness and love for their lives. He was so ecstatic that they both chose to go to college and further their educations even though his main goal for them was to just have a happy life. He was so looking forward to watching Amanda graduate and for Rozy to start her new life as a wife and mother. I know that he will continue to watch over both of them and help them make the right choices in life. His handprints are all over both of the girls (though they probably don’t really see it) and he did a wonderful job as a father of teens.
Paul was gifted with a great deal of intelligence and could never get enough knowledge of history, particularly biblical history. He always felt that if you understood what was going on at the time, the Bible made more sense. He loved being in Bible studies and delving into the meaning of the scriptures and then connected that with the history that he had learned over the years. His library is a testament to the days he spent reading and learning.
He was an avid and I believe talented woodworker and found joy in making things with his hands but he also found much joy in creating things with his mind, as a software engineer, he often told me that writing software was like creating art for him. He could see it in his mind and then he could translate it to code and make something that worked and was beautiful to him.
Paul was such a tease (his mother tells me it started the day he was born); and he could make me laugh on any day, not matter what had happened or how bad it was. He could always find a way to make me feel better and to laugh out loud. I will have be watching for his teasing because I know he will still be out there doing silly things to make me laugh in the days ahead like he has for the last 34 years.
It is hard to sum up the life of a man that filled each and every nook of my being, these are just words, but he brought life to me each and every day. Unlike many marriages ours was like magic, yes we had our ups and downs but they were mostly ups. On more than one occasion I was told that when I talked about Paul and what we had together it was like hearing a fairytale or magic. And it was magic and Paul gave me the fairytale life and provided the magic every day, but today I have lost some of that magic. I know that I will see him again and I will get the magic back, but it is so hard right now and I can only keep saying "What would Paul have wanted me to do?" and pray that God guides each and every one of my steps until I get to be with Paul again.
Thank you all for the love you have shown to Paul and to us, his family, in this time of loss. We know that the future days are not going to be easy and we will need to fall back on those that love us and Paul so much. - Pam Newell -
MEMORIAL DONATIONS MAY BE MADE IN HONOR OF PAUL TO; CORNERSTONE UNITED METHODIST CHURCH.
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