Eddie Floyd

Puckett

Eddie Floyd Puckett [81], passed away on December 19, 2025, at 3:03am at his home in Sweetwater. Eddie was a beloved father, PaPa, and friend who will be deeply missed by all who knew him. A Celebration of Life will be held December 22, 2025, at 10:00am in the Sweetwater High School Auditorium with Carter Edmonson officiating.

Eddie was born February 23, 1944, in Amhurst, Texas.  He grew up in Muleshoe, Texas, and went on to attend South Plains Junior College to rodeo before transferring to Texas Tech University, riding bulls to pay his way through college. Eddie graduated from Texas Tech with a degree in Agriculture Education in 1968. He married his long-time girlfriend Ira Lea Inman Puckett on May 28, 1966. They had two daughters, Johnna, and LaDawn.

Eddie started his teaching career in Loraine, Texas in 1968 before transferring to Sweetwater in 1972, where he taught Ag until he retired from Sweetwater ISD in 2001. After he retired, Eddie joined iCEV Multimedia in 2003 traveling all over Texas and the surrounding states continuing his lifetime of service to Ag students and Ag teachers alike. Throughout his career, Eddie was known for his hard work, dedication to his Ag students, and his passion for Agricultural Education. Above all, he valued honesty and hard work and gave everyone a fair-shake no matter what. In all his years teaching and working for iCEV, Eddie dedicated his career to enabling students with real-world skills and hands-on experience that prepared them for success on whatever path they chose after high school. Among the many awards Eddie received throughout his career, he was awarded the Aubrey N. Davis Family Memorial Award in 2006 and the Outstanding Salesperson of the Year Award in 2009. Eddie's lifetime of service to Agricultural Education was recognized when he was inducted into the Ag Teacher Hall of Fame in 2021. Most recently, the brand new, state-of-the-art Sweetwater Career & Technical Education Center was named the Puckett and Dudensing Career & Technical Education Center to honor and celebrate the incredible lives and legacies of both Eddie Puckett and Kenneth Dudensing, his long-time friend and teaching partner.

When he was a young man, Eddie enjoyed his own rodeo days. After hanging up his spurs, Eddie enjoyed watching both daughters play basketball and run track at Sweetwater High School. He enjoyed watching and supporting their many successes in rodeo that took them both through college. He enjoyed training horses, watching racehorses, and his partnership with Alfred Vardemann. He loved going to Ruidoso, New Mexico spending time with family and friends at the horse races. Eddie loved watching basketball, and specifically women's basketball. He loved and cherished watching his grandkids doing what they loved, whether it was helping and watching Casey and Lane at stock shows, Kendall playing softball, and of course Kyla playing basketball.

Eddie is survived by the love of his life, Ira Lea, his daughter LaDawn Daniel and son-in-law Tony, his four grandkids Casey Webb and her husband Jake, Lane Reynolds, Kyla Daniel, and Kendall Daniel, great-grandson Briggs Webb. Eddie is also survived by his sisters Joyce Scott and her husband Ronald, Chat Mobley and her husband Bob, brother-in-law Don Nicewarner, and numerous nieces and nephews.

Eddie was preceded in death by his parents John and Myrtle Puckett, daughter Johnna Puckett Reynolds, sister and brother-in-law Mary and Curby Brantley, sister Wilma Nicewarner, brothers D.W. Puckett and John H. Puckett, mother and father-in-law John and Vera Inman, Sisters-in-law Patricia Halsell and Priscilla Hicks and her husband Gary.

Visitation will be Sunday, December 21st from 5:00pm to 7:30pm at McCoy Funeral Home in Sweetwater. Celebration of Life Services will be held Monday, December 22nd at 10:00am in the Sweetwater High School Auditorium. Graveside services will be held Tuesday, December 23rd in Muleshoe Memorial Park Cemetery at 1:00pm.

In lieu of flowers, please consider donating to the Eddie Puckett Scholarship Fund in the Ag Education Department.

Pall Bearers: Kirk Maberry, Doug Richards, Brad Armstrong, Jeff Dudensing, Lane Reynolds, Scott Hicks, Alfred Vardemann

Honorary Pall Bearers: Arthur Maberry, Charlie Russell, Kenneth Dudensing, Gordon Davis, Doug Criswell, Clayton Franklin, John Ward, Louis Brooks, Dennis Cumbie, Don Adkins, Reece Duncan, Frank Hermismeyer, Ronald Scott, George Brooks, Steve Mahaffey,

Online condolences may be expressed at www.mccoyfh.com.