>Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 12:39:20 -0800 >To: KYMONROE >From: Lea Head <[email protected]> >Subject: Grayson & Fannin Co. TX Obits > >More selected obituary extracts from the Herald Democrat, the primary >newspaper for Grayson Co., Tx. They are not in any particular order but >appeared in print within the past year or so to the present. If anyone on >the list needs additional information from the original obit, I will be >happy to reply to them via email <[email protected]>. > >RITCHIE, Katherine, 90, of Sherman passed away 5 Jan 2002 at a Sherman >hospital. She was b. in Van Alstyne, TX on 23 March 1911 to Will A. >McCARTY and Dora HAMILTON McCarty. She m. Len Ritchie in Jan 1944 in >Denison. Interment at Cedarlawn Memorial Park, Sherman. > >WATSON, Owen, 87, died in Gunter, TX on 30 June 2002. He was b. 01 Jul >1914 near Farmington in Grayson Co. to Marshall and Ona Bell REECER >Watson. He m. Mamie HEDRICK on apr 16, 1938 in Sweetwater, TX. He was a >member of the Howe Masonic Lodge. Interment in the Hall Cemetery, Grayson >Co., TX. > >MURPHREE, Gladys O., 93 year old retired school teacher, died 03 Sept >2002. She was b. 03 Dec 1908 in Anna, TX (Collin Co.) the d/o Jessie B. >Murphree and Margaret Inez STERLING Murphree. Interment in the Van >Alstyne Cemetery. > >CRAWFORD, Y.B., 84, died 12 Sept 2002 in Sherman. Mr. Crawford was b. 15 >Apr 1918 in Trenton, TX. the s/o John William and Mary Annie HILBURN >Crawford. He m. Mary HINDSLY on 31 Aug 1950. Interment in the Burns >Cemetery, Trenton, TX. > >LANKFORD, Grady "B" passed away 28 Sept 2002 at the age of 82. He wa sb. >16 Oct 1919 in Kentuckytown, TX to Hershel and Florence MELSON >Lankford. On 10 Nov 1938 he m. Della Mae HANNING in Sherman. He was a >Master Mason and a member of the Scottish Rite. He received the Farm >Family award in 1958 and was a dairyman and farmer. > >DUNAWAY, Leon "Shorty", age 76 of Denison, died 01 Oct 2001 at a Denison >hospital. He was b. 20 Aug 1925 in Denison to Aaron Ira and Annie Mae >RUSHING Dunaway. On 22 Mar 1947 he m. Imogene COFFMAN in Sherman. Shorty >was a WW II Army veteran. He is buried in Cedarlawn Memorial Park, Sherman. > >PIERCE, Faye Verna ROBERTS, formerly of Sherman, died 29 Sept 2001 at a >Savoy nursing home. She was b. 14 sept 1914 near collinsville, TX to >Chester Arthur and Lillie JENKINS Roberts. She m. Franklin Grover Pierce >of Sherman on 09 Jan 1932 in Tishomingo, OK. Interment in Cedarlawn >Memorial Park, Sherman. > >COKER, Ina Mae, 87, of Sherman died 15 Jul 2002 in Sherman. Ina Mae was >b. 12 Sept 1914 in Tom Bean, TX to R.H. "Larkin" WORTHAM and Pearl TROSPER >Wortham. She m. Bennie Coker 23 Aug 1935 in Whitewright, TX.. Interment >in Vittitoe Cemetery. > >MATLOCK, Jessie Bell, 86, of Ethel died 29 March 2002 at a Collinsville >nursing home. She was b. 02 aug 1915 in Collinsville, TX to William and >Inez SWINDELL RICE. On 30 June 1932 she m. Robert Marion Matlock in >Durant, OK. Burial in the Ethel Cemetery. > >BLANTON, Ethyl Lee, 84, of Denton died 09 July 2002 at a Denton hospital. >She was b. 25 Oct 1917 in Whitewright, TX to Issac SANDERS and Nora >Elizabeth (MILLER) MORRIS. She m. J.P. Blanton on 18 Aug 1935 in >Whitewright, TX. He d. 29 Sept 1997. Burial in the Burns Cemetery, >Trenton, TX. > >BATCHELOR, Billy Ray, 72, died 24 June 2002 at his home in >Trenton. Graveside services were held at Ridgeview Memorial Park, Collin >Co, TX. Survived by son Tim Batchelor and daugh Karen Duke, both of Trenton. > >WATSON, Nina Mae, 93, of Sherman passed away 30 Jan 2001 in Sherman, >TX. She was b. in Whitewright, TX on 20 May 1907, the d/o Wm. B. SEWELL >and Delilah Mae McGINNIS. She 1st m. Van WATSON in 1925 in Whitesboro, >TX. She 2nd m. L.M. "Mitch" GUTHRIE who preceded her in death. On 17 Sept >1987 she remarried Van Watson in Sherman. Burial at Oakwood Cemetery, >Whitesboro, TX. > >SHAW, Frank died 08 Dec 2002 in CA. Frank was b. 14 May 1920 in Sherman >to Frank C. and Mahaley DAUGHTERY Shaw and raised near Dorchester. He was >a retired Los Angeles Co. fireman and served in the Army in WW II. He m. >Esther HINTZ after his discharge from the military. Interment in Rosehill >Cemetery, ?Whittier, CA. > >HARRIS, Ida Belle, 79 died 08 Dec 2002 at home. She was b. 11 May 1923 in >Tom Bean, TX to Hobart McKinley PIKE and Ida Mae NELMS Pike. On 01 Jan >1942, she m. Jessie T. "Bud" Harris in Durant, OK. Interment at Cedarlawn >Memorial Park in Sherman.