Jessie McCullum

Funeral services for Jessie Pearl McCollum, 75, Athens, were held at 2 p.m. Friday at Foster & Brown Funeral Home Chapel in Athens with the Rev. Buddy Chance officiating.
Burial was in Davis Cemetery.
Mrs. McCollum died Wednesday night in a Tyler hospital after a long illness.
She was born September 2, 1907, in Belton, and lived in the Athens area since 1967. She was a Baptist.
Survivors include two sons, Sonny McCollum, Fort Worth, and Jim McCollum , Canton; a daughter, Carla McCollum Johnson, Athens; a brother, James O'Neal, Athens; a sister, Ruth McCollum, Fort Worth; nine grandchildren; and three great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Maynard Massengale, Woodard Massengale, Ernest Williams, Walton Deupree, Jasper Stevens and Jake O'Neal.

Mrs. Martain

Funeral services and burial for Mrs. Ross Martain, the former Era Rice, were held in Dallas Thursday, September 2. Mrs. Martain died September 1 following a long illness.
She was a native of Van Zandt County, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Henry Rice.
Among those attending the last rites were her nephew, Richard Furrh, Mrs. Furrh and Mrs. Jack Johnson.

Elbert Hooks

Funeral Services for Elbert Hooks, 78, Edgewood, were held at 4 p.m. Friday at Cheatham Memorial United Methodist Church with the Rev. Charles Geller officiating.
Burial was at Oak Hill Cemetery under direction of Lybrand Funeral Home in Edgewood.
Mr. Hooks died Thursday in a Grand Saline hospital.
He was born July 3, 1904 in Edgewood, and left Edgewood in 1930 to move to Dallas, where he was a partner in Hooks & Upton Tire co. After a short career in the grocery business. He worked in the Van Zandt County tax assessor and collector office 10 years. Later years were spent in cattle and farm business.
Survivors include his wife, Julia Kathryn Hooks, Edgewood; two brothers, R. Melvin Hooks, Wills Point, and Alex Hooks, Edgewood; two sisters, Charity Wilson, Wills Point, and Grace Brewer, Edgewood; six nephews, B. W. Wilson, Jr., Robert Alex Hooks, Jerry Hooks, James Hooks, Bobby Hall and Jimmy Hall; three nieces, Jean James, Mary Stewart and Grace Marie Guillot; and 24 great nephews and great- nieces.
Pallbearers were Joe Drake, Kenneth Fox, Gerald Johnson, Odis Stribling, Ted James, Aubrey Andrews and Bob Pickens.

Toddie Wynne

 

Funeral services for Toddie Lee Wynne of Dallas were scheduled at 2 p.m. Friday at Highland Presbyterian Church in Dallas.
Mr. Wynne died Wednesday. He was the son of the late W. B. And Margaret H. Wynne and a native of Wills Point, born November 28, 1896.
He is survived by two brothers, B. J. Wynne and Gordon R. Wynne, Sr. of Wills Point; two sisters, Ada Wynne Life of Athens and Nancy Wynne Wroe of Austin; one son, Toddie Lee Wynne, Jr. of Dallas; one daughter, Imogen "Sissy" Wynne Price of Dallas; and numerous grandchildren, nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his wife, Imogen Young Wynne.

Gladys Rushing

Funeral Services for Gladys Pearl Rushing, 81, of Van, were held at 3 p.m. Monday at Hilliard Funeral Home Chapel of Van with the Rev. Robert Walker officiating.
Burial was in Fairway Garden.
Mrs. Rushing died September 5 at a Tyler hospital.
Born in Daingerfield February 3, 1901, she was a member of Van Methodist Church, Evening Star and Womens Missionary Society.
Survivors include her husband, Jack Rushing, Van; two sons, Gerald Rushing, Van, and James Rushing, New Orleans; six grandchildren; and 11 great-grandchildren.
Alfred Hahl, Charles McGuffey, Van McGuffey and Arthur Primrose were pallbearers.

Lee Bookout

Funeral Services for E. Lee Bookout, 80, Grand Saline, were held at 2 p.m. Sunday at Sand Springs Baptist Church with Bud Willmon officiating.
Burial was in Sand Springs Cemetery under the direction of Eubank Funeral Home in Canton.
Mr. Bookout died September 3 in a Grand Saline Hospital after a long illness.
He was born March 26, 1902 in Oklahoma, lived at Grand Saline the past 10 years, and prior to that in Dallas. He was a retired construction worker and a member of Sand Springs Baptist Church. He was a member of I.O.O. F. Lodge of Grand Saline.
Survivors include a son, Richard Bookout, Dallas; a sister, Irene Faulkner, Idabel, Oklahoma; four grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren and a great-great-grandchild.
Odd Fellows served as pallbearers.

Myrtle Blakely

Funeral Services for Myrtle Blakeley, 90, Grand Saline, were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Sand Flat Baptist Church with the Revs. Jack Burgess and Dennis Seamons officiating.
Burial was in Sand Flat Cemetery under direction of Bartley Funeral Home in Grand Saline.
Mrs. Blakeley died Monday in a Grand Saline hospital.
She was born April 17, 1892, in Van Zandt County, and lived in that area all of her life. She was a retired school teacher and a member of Sand Flat Baptist Church.
Survivors include her husband, Wayne Blakeley, Grand Saline; a son, Barry Blakeley, Grand Saline; two brothers, Carl Darnell, Wichita Falls, and Howard Darnell, Grand Saline; three granddaughters; and four great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Henry Kirby, Alvin Fritz, B. J. Lovvorn, Willey Joslin, Hoyt Nations and Cleo Burgess.

Anna Beasley

Funeral Services for Anna Elizabeth Beasley, 86 of Alba, were held at 2 p.m. Monday at Wilson-Bartley Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Eric Anderson officiating.
Burial was in Salem Cemetery.
Mrs. Beasley died September 5 at a local hospital.
Born July 7 at Denison, she lived in Dallas most of her life. She was a Catholic and worked as a housekeeper.
Survivors include a cousin, Lucille Frank of Grand Saline.
Pallbearers were James Eddleman, Wilmer Hall Jr., Carlton Eptes and Jimmy Waters.

Noah Kamman

Funeral services for Noah M. Kamman, 67, Van were held at 10 a.m. Monday at Hilliard Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Leon King officiating.
Burial was in Colfax Cemetery.
Mr. Kamman died September 3 at a Tyler hospital.
He retired from Dallas Power and Light Co. as an electrician and served in the U.S. Air Force during World War II. He was a Baptist.
Survivors include his wife, Lou Ella Kamman, Van; and two brothers, Leonard Kammon, Houston, and Lee Kamman, Myrtle Springs.
Nephews served as pallbearers.

Christine Jones

Funeral services for Christine Lee Jones, 59, Edgewood, were held at 4 p.m. September 4 in Pleasant Union Baptist Church with the Revs. L. A. Goodson and Raymond Valentine officiating.
Burial was in Small Cemetery near Edgewood.
Mrs. Jones died September 2 in Edgewood after a sudden illness.
She was born June 16, 1923 in Edgewood, and lived there all her life, and was a housewife.
She was predeceased by her husband, Homer Jones and a son, Jimmy H. Jones.
Survivors include a son Rick Jones, Quinlan; a brother, Louie Lee, Edgewood; three sisters, Lorene Wells, Mesquite, and Corine Hill and Izora Bunch, both of Edgewood; eight grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers were Coy Barrett, Howard Reid, J. W. Morris, Robert Pettigrew, Johnny Barrett and Jack Simmons.

Mrs. Davis

Funeral services for Mrs. Allie Davis, 81, Gladewater, were held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at St. James Baptist church with the Rev. L.C. Johnson officiating.
Burial was in Red Rock Cemetery under direction of McCauley & Son Funeral Home in Gladewater.
Mrs. Davis died Monday in a Tyler hospital.
She was born February 18, 1901, in Smith County and moved to Gladewater in 1950. She was an active member of St. James Baptist Church in Gladewater until her recent illness.
Survivors include her husband, Watson Davis Jr., Gladewater; five daughters, Mary Powell, Gladewater; Elneater Davis, Tyler, Vernice Simon and Jacquelline Morgan, both of Dallas, and Annie Bell Butler, Ennis; three sons, W. D. Davis, George C. Davis and Alton C. Davis, all of Dallas; two sisters, Ethel Bostick, Lindale, and Stella Randall, Dallas; two brothers, Willis Wilson, Edgewood, and Elder Phillip Wilson, Sacramento, California; 29 grandchildren; and 34 great-grandchildren.

Ben Kittley

Ben C. Kittley, 75, a long-time resident of Rule, died September 2 at 8 p.m. in the Haskell Memorial Hospital after a lengthy illness. Funeral services were held September 4 at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist Church of Rule. Rev. J. R. Williams, pastor, officiated, and was assisted by John Greeson of the Rule Church of Christ.
Burial was in Rule Cemetery under the direction of Pinkard-Standford Funeral Home of Rule.
Mr. Kittley was born May 8, 1907, in Sagerton. He was a retired farmer who had lived in Rule all of his life, a member of the First Baptist Church of Rule, I.O.O.F. Lodge No. 379, active in FFA, and a member of the American Legion.
He was married to Peggy Bradley July 9, 1946, in Fort Worth.
Survivors are one son, James Wesley (Jimmy) Kittley of Pusan, Republic of South Korea; two daughters, Patsy Lou Adams and Martha Sloan of Canton; one step-daughter, Romona Ruth (Goodlow) Barr of Roswell, New Mexico; one brother, Ewell Kittley of Rule; one sister, Ila (Dolly) Denson of Rule; eight grandchildren; two step-grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.
Four brothers and two sisters preceded him in death. Nephews served as pallbearers.

Carl Unruh

Funeral Services for Carl Reed Unruh Jr., 31, Tyler, was held at 2 p.m. Sunday in Bartley Funeral Home Chapel in Grand Saline with Dr. Pat Day officiating.
Burial was in Townsend, Delaware.
Mr. Unruh died near Mount Sylvan in a one-car accident.
He was born April 19, 1951, in Dover, Delaware, and lived most of his life there. He had lived in Grand Saline and Tyler. He was an oilfield driller and a member of St. Paul Methodist Church in Delaware. He was a veteran of the U. S. Air Force.
Survivors include his wife, Carol Unruh, Tyler; a daughter, Renee Gary, Tyler; parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl R. Unruh Sr., Grand Saline; a brother, Victor David, Grand Saline; five sisters, Carlene Foraker, Linda Ridaugh, Karen Lepkowski and Cindy Bowman, all of Delaware, and Martha Tipps, Grand Saline; and grandmother, Ruth Newnom, Delaware.

Calvin Tipps

Funeral services for Calvin Junior Tipps, 53, Elmo, were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Eubank Funeral Chapel in Canton with the Rev. Johnny Allen officiating.
Burial was in Have of Memories Memorial Park.
Mr. Tipps died Tuesday in Tyler.
He was born August 31, 1929 in Grand Saline and was a longtime resident of Van Zandt and Kaufman County. He was self-employed. He was a member of Cobb Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Ida Mae (Foster) Tipps, Elmo; a son, Calvin Jay Tipps, Elmo; a daughter, Carolyn Janice Griffith, Terrell; his mother, Francis Tipps, Grand Saline; a brother, James Tipps, Geneva, Alabama; a sister, Joyce Virginia Murphy, Waco; and three grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Tony Foster, John Foster, Robert Martin, James Osborn, Paul Eason and Leonard Stamper.

Clifford Hyde

Funeral services for Clifford Hyde, 61, Mabank, were held 2 p.m. Monday at Eubank Funeral Home Chapel at Mabank with the Revs. Joe David Ruffin and James Higginbotham officiating.
Burial was in Oaklawn Cemetery in Mabank.
Mr. Hyde died September 4 at his home.
He was born September 28, 1920, in Van Zandt County, and was reared in the Mabank area. He formerly resided at Conway, Arkansas, and returned to Mabank in 1974. He was employed by Frankston Paper & Box Company prior to his retirement a year ago. He was a U. S. Army veteran of World War II and a Presbyterian.
Survivors include his wife, Lucille Hyde, Mabank; a daughter, Dianne Hyde, Mabank; a brother, William F. Hyde Jr., Mabank; four sisters, Juanita Shelby, Dorothy Crow and Gladys Gray, all of Mabank, and Janie Crow, Tyler; and a granddaughter.
Pallbearers were Darrell Drennan, Dudley Leath, Eldon Hyde, Connie Hyde, Bernice Hyde and John L. Hyde.
Honorary pallbearers were Abe Cox, Donald Key, James Pippin, Wally Williams and R. L. Soloman.

Grand Saline Sun

Thursday, July 18, 1946

Front Page

Submitted by: Dennis R. Melton

 

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Aunt Becky Anders Dies at Home of Daughter, Mrs. Eugene Berry

 

"Aunt Becky" Anders died quietly at 4:35 o'clock last Friday afternoon at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Eugene Berry, on route 2.
In the 97th year, "Aunt Becky" was one of the oldest persons in Van Zandt County at the time of her death and one of the oldest living residents of the county.
She had been in ill health for the past five years, following a fall which resulted in her hip being broken, and took to a wheel chair during that period. For the past 11 months she had been confined to her bed.

Funeral services were conducted at 3 o'clock Sunday afternoon at the Creagleville Methodist Church with the Rev. Mr. Shoemaker, pastor, and the Rev. B. C. Dodd, officiating. Burial was in the Creagleville Cemetery.

Pallbearers were the grandsons, Howard Berry, Fred Dorough, Ester Melton, Luther Anders, Raymond Sloan and J. C. Anders.

Music was provided by a quartet, composed of M. E. White, Boone Carter, J. I. Moody and Mrs. Claude White and Mrs. F. B. Smith, pianist. "Aunt Becky's" granddaughters and several of their friends were flower girls.

Born March 11, 1850 in Tennessee. Rachel Rebecca Anders moved to Van Zandt County with her parents, the late Rev. and Mrs. W. M. Sharp, when she was three years old. Her father was a pioneer Methodist preacher here, and she joined this church in early life to begin a Christian heritage extending nearly a century. As a girl, she attended the Creagleville school.

In 1868, she married the late W. M. Anders, a Civil War veteran from Louisiana. Anders was a farmer, coming here in 1866 after the war and two years later he married the young Sharp girl at her parent's home in what is now Pole Town.
During early married life the Anders moved two or three times before they decided to settle permanently with their growing family in the Antioch community in 1878. They were parents of 12 children, seven of whom survive. Anders died in 1906.

Following the death of her husband, "Aunt Becky" lived at the home she helped establish for a while and then decided to live with her children with whom she has made her home for nearly 40 years.

She is survived by four daughters, Mrs. Cora Carroll of Liberty, Mrs. B.C. Dorough, Mrs. Berry and Mrs. Milburn Sloan, all of Grand Saline; three sons, W. J. Anders of Grand Saline, J. L. Anders of Fort Worth, and Sam Anders of Delano, Calif.; 20 grandchildren, 37 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
Out of town attendants at the funeral were Mrs. Cora Carroll, Lewis Carroll, her son, and his daughter, all of Liberty; Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Berry and Mr. and Mrs. Ben Griffin of Terrell; Dewey Carter of Wills Point, Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Melton, Bob Melton, Dalton Melton, Fred Dorough, Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Sloan and Mrs. Mike Davis of Dallas; Mr. and Mrs. Floy Dorough of Henderson, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Arnold and a friend of Quitman, Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Anders and Jim Shamberger of Kilgore, Mr. and Mrs. Tull White and Charlie White of Mineola, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Landers of Fort Worth and Mr. and Mrs. Luther Anders of Loraine.

Terrell Tribune
January 15, 1920
T. D. Greathouse, Pioneer of Terrell, Passes Away

A veteran of the lost case, described by a comrade in arms as one of the truest soldiers he ever knew tested and tried, died last night at this home in this city in the passing of T. O. Greathouse, for many years a resident of Terrell, possessing the unstinted confidence of all.

Mr. Greathouse was a member of the J. E. B. Stuart Camp of Confederate Veterans, one of the most active and prominent members. In his uniform he was buried and his comrades in arms followed the remains to the last resting place this afternoon following funeral services at the home on North Adelaide street. Rev. H. C. Bass of the First Baptist Church officiating. He had been identified with that church for a number of years.

Mrs. Greathouse was born in Troupe county, Georgia, April 17, 1844. He moved to Alabama in early life and enlisted in the Confederate army in February, 1862, before he was twenty years of age. He was a member of Company G. 34th Alabama infantry and was in all of the battles of the army of Tennessee until the surrender of General James E. Johnson at Greenborgh, North Carolina, April 25, 1865. At the close of the war he moved to Texas.

 

Terrell Tribune
January 16, 1920
Confederate Veteran Buried with Confederate Honors

The burial services for T. D. Greathouse yesterday afternoon were made especially impressive in the presence of the venerable members of the J.E.B. Stuart Camp of Confederate veterans who attended in a body in their uniforms.

Vic Reinhardt, Adjutant of the camp for so long and one of the best known veterans for this section made a most impressive talk. He and Mr. Greathouse served together in the war.

Pallbearers were Confederate Veterans, including: S. McMahan, C. J. Alvis, Sam Lord, J. R. Bond, Vic Reinhardt, W. D. Adams and J. N. Young

Terrell Tribune
January 13, 1920

Barney Cooney Well Known Engineer Died January 9th

Withe the passing away of Mr. Barney Cooney at this home on Frohne avenue, this city, at 6:40 o'clock Friday evening, the Cotton Belt railway loses another one of its pioneer engineers. Mr. Cooney had been in active service as a locomotive engineer on the line for over a quarter of a century. He was a native of Ireland, coming to the United States in early manhood. The Cotton Belt system never had a more loyal or faithful man in its employ and the demise of Mr. Cooney has caused much sadness among employees everywhere, from the president on down the line. Not only was Mr. Cooney faithful to railroad duties, but he was active in religious and civic affairs. He was a prominent member of the Catholic Church of the Immaculate Comception.

He is survived by two daughters, Mrs. Paul Kroesen of New York City and Miss Jennie Cooney of this city, as well as six sons, Charles, Pete, James, Patrick and Francis of Tyler, and Bernard of Kansas City. A sister living in New York City, and a brother, Pat Cooney of Terrell, also survive him. His wife was Miss Margaret James of Waco.

The funeral services were held at 5 o'clock Sunday afternoon, at the Catholic Church and interment took place at Oakwood Cemetery - Tyler Courier Times, Jan. 9, 1920.

Terrell Tribune
Monday, February 9, 1920

A. A. Hitt

A. A. Hitt died Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the Terrell sanitarium following an attack of pneumonia. He was forty-nine years of age and a citizen of this place for many years.

Eight children survive, the wife having died a few months ago.

He was a member of the Odd Fellows lodge, and that order will have charge of the funeral this afternoon at the residence on James street. Rev. H. C. Bass and Rev. McClurg, officiating. Burial will be at Elmo.

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