--=======9F36C70======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-367F316C; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 13:35:32 -0500 >To: KYMONROE_L >From: Lea Head <[email protected]> >Subject: Grayson/Fannin Co, TX Obits > >More extracted obits I've saved in the past year from the Herald Democrat, >the leading newspaper in our area. > >HOLLENSED, J.D. "Don" >Died July 11, 2001 at a Denison hospital. He was b. Oct 26, 1915 in Tom >Bean, TX, the s/o John Wesley and Katy May HICKS Hollensed. He m. Ruby >Lorene FOSTER in Durant, OK on Apr 6, 1940. He was preceded by six >sisters. He is survived by wife, Lorene, son John M., daugh Patti >Honeycutt, sister Mamie Paulk, and mult. grchildren and >ggranchildren. Burial at Cedarlawn Memorial Park in Sherman, TX. > >HOLLOWAY, Gearald Alton >Died Dec 15, 2000 at a Sherman hospital. He was b. Dec 7, 1915 in Howe, TX >to Thomas and Effie ELMORE Holloway. He m. Kathleen COLEMAN on June 2, >1940 in Durant, OK. He is survived by his wife Kathleen, sisters Wilma >Dennard and Virginia Griffin, brothers T.B. Holloway,Jr., John R. Holloway >and numerous nieces and nephews. Burial in the Holloway Cemetery, Grayson >Co, TX. > >MILLER, Ester Alean ANDERSON >Died Dec 15, 2000. She was b. Aug 28, 1911 in Thompkinsville, KY to Bony >Parks Anderson and Mamie Lee Pruitt. She m. George Dewey Miller on Aug >7, 1927 in Westminster, TX (Collin Co). Survived by daughs Ann "Willie >Mae" Bowden and Judy Darlene Beaty, son Benton Tommy Miller, sisters Ruth >Harrod, Bea Riggs, Lissie Mae Richardson and Ruby Hooker, brother W.W. >Andy Anderson and many gr and ggrchildren. Burial in the Pilot Grove >Cemetery, Grayson Co. > >FULLER, Edna WOODALL >Died Dec 15, 2000 in a Sherman hospital. She was b. Nov 28, 1910 in >Tarpley, TX to Knox and Bessie MUNROE, prominent farmers in the Gunter >community. She first m. C.L. Woodall on Apr 6, 1944 who preceded her on >Aug 17, 1971. She then m. Warren Fuller on Nov 4, 1988 who preceded her >on June 22, 1995. She is survived by a nephew, Don HUNTER of Gunter, >TX. Burial place unstated. > >BLAKEY, Joe Lee >Died Apr 18, 2001 at a Sherman hospital. He was b. Jul 28, 1923 in Savoy, >TX (Fannin Co.) to James Thomas and Nancy Elizabeth BURRIS Blakey. He is >survived by son Bobby Blakey, daugh Rosemary Blakey and cousins, nieces >and grchildren. Burial in the Sunnyside Cemetery in Savoy, TX. > >BURK, Hoyt Douglas >Died Apr 14, 2001 at his home in Seattle, WA. at the age of 66. He is >survived by wife, Joy, sister Pauline Harris, and brothers Thomas, Roscoe, >Robert and Brodden Burk. Burial in the Van Alstyne Cemetery, Grayson Co, TX. > >DENTON, Frances Opal >Died Apr 19, 2001 in Grand Saline, TX. Survivors are daugh Frances Denton >Clark, stepdaughs Glenda Petty, Joyce Searcy and Cindy Sharp, stepsons >Michael Denton and Danny Denton, brother Bill RIDENOUR and one >grson. Burial in the Georgetown Cemetery, Pottsboro, TX. > >CUMMING, Annie TAYLOR >Died Jul 14, 2001 at a Sherman hospital. She was b. Jan 15, 1908 in >Celina, TX to Thomas Leland and Lucy Lee Taylor. She m. John Cumming on >Dec 24, 1940 in Sherman, TX. He preceded her on Sep 22, 1985. She was >also preceded by sister Leola Taylor Strawn and nephew Leland Strawn. She >is survived by sister Ola Brown and brothers Jack and T.L. Taylor, and >many nieces and nephews. Burial at the Friendship Cemetery. > >SWINDLE, Mary Jewel >Died Jul 15, 2001 at her home in Mesquite, TX. She was b. Jun 26, 1917 in >Gunter, TX the d/o James Nathan SKAGGS and Jessie Lola WILSON Skaggs. On >Feb 9, 1935 she m. Eber Swindle in Gainesville, TX. She is survived by >her husband Eber, daughs Clova White and Carolyn Wanpler, sisters Mattie >GARY, Joyce MATHIS, Daisy ROLLINS and Patsy MORRIS, and brother Charles >Skaggs of Van Alstyne, TX. Burial in the Collinsville Cemetery, >Collinsville, TX. > >CUNNINGHAM, Dorothy D. >Died Apr 30, 2001 at a Denison hospital. She was b. Apr 21, 1920 in Tom >Bean, TX to Green Dewitt and Mattie Bell HOPPER CARTER. She m. Carl A. >Cunningham on Oct 8, 1941. He preceded her on Apr 16, 1979. Survivors >are son Marion Cunnningham, sister Cora Lee Plemons and several nieces and >nephews. Burial in the Fairview Cemetery, Grayson Co, TX. > >OWNBY, Mary Lee >Died May 15, 2001 at a Sherman hospital. She was b. Feb 4, 1926 in Tom >Bean, TX to Ervan "Red" and Ruby SADLER HUGHES. she m. Harry Ownby on >June 9, 1968 in Durant, OK. Survivors are brother Jack "Buck" Hughes, >cousin Veta SADLER, nephew Pat TALLEY, multiple nieces and nephews. she >was preceded by her husband, Harry. Burial in the West Hill Cemetery, >Sherman, TX. > >HAWKINS, Mary Evelyn "Granny" >Died Jan 29, 2001. She was b. Sep 22, 1915 in Sherman, TX to John "Ed" >BRINLEE snd Lucy Ella HIX Brinlee. She m. Robert Lee Hawkins on Sep 9, >1939 in Durant, OK and he preceded her on Jul 23, 1982. Also preceded by >son Donald Edward Brinlee, grson Bobby Joe Phillips, four sisters and one >brother. She is survived by daughs Leona Phillips, Vernon Joyce Beshears, >and Mary Graham, son Jerry Hawkins, brother Jack Brinlee and many grand >and ggrandchildren. burial in Bethany Cemetery, Sherman, TX. > >WHITEHEAD, John Kenneth >Died at his residence in Ector on Jan 29, 2001. He was b. May 12, 1932 in >Ector, TX to John Henderson Whitehead and Winnie Mae RAMEY Whitehead. He >m. Bettie Amlin June 10, 1951 in Fannin Co, TX. He is survived by wife, >Bettie, daugh Cassandra Drachenberg, sons John Kenneth Jr. and Ted Eric >Whitehead, and many nieces, nephews, cousins and grchildren. Burial in the >Carson Cemetery, Ector, TX. > >THACKER, William Morgan, age 74 >Died Jan 30, 2001 at the Meadowbrook Care Center in Van Alstyne, TX. He is >survived by sisters Wanda Parks, Joy Brown, Zelda Ellis and Cara Faye Cook >and brothers Jack Thacker of Van Alstyne and Choice Thacker of >Celeste. Burial in the Pike Cemetery, Fannin Co, TX. > >HARLOW, Buford Franklin >Died Aug 4, 2001. He was b. Aug 15, 1915 to "Packy" and Viola Lee Harlow >in the Carpenters Bluff Community, Grayson Co. He m. Mildred SHORT in >1944. He was preceded by wife, Mildred, brothers Vernon and Preston >Harlow. Survivors are sister Eula FARRIS and several nieces, nephews and >cousins. Burial at Cedarlawn Memorial Park, Sherman, TX. > >RIDINGER, Lou Ella >Died July 31, 2001 at a Denison hospital. She was b. Sep 2, 1917 in >Collinsville, TX, the d/o William W. and Margaret Ann McKNIGHT. On Jan 4, >1936 she m. Vernon R. Ridinger in Gainesville, TX. She was preceded by >husband, Vernon on Feb 2, 1953. She is survived by children Jerry, >Ralph, Lonnie and William Ridinger, Nelda Wright, Brenda Spillman and >Glenda Overturf plus many grchildren and grgrandchildren. Burial in the >Collinsville Cemetery, Collinsville, TX. > >BURK, Claudia age 89 of Van Alstyne >Died July 30, 2001 at a local nursing home. Survived by nephews. Burial >in Van Alstyne Cemetery, Grayson Co, TX. > >FORD, Essie Fay >Died Apr 17, 2001 at a local nursing home. She was b. Sep 10, 1912 in >Savoy, TX d/o Hosea Monroe ROSE and Pearl SMITH Rose. She m. Walter >Monroe DUNCAN. After his death she m. Walter FORD on Apr 15, >1957. Survived by daugh June Watson, son David Duncan, brother Monroe >Rose, Jr., sisters Elva Goracke, Treva Catlett, Winnie Oden and many gr >and grgrandchildren. She is also survived by stepchildren Florence Kirby, >Audie Ford, Faye Wrenn and Roy Duncan. She was preceded by two sisters >and three brothers, stepchildren Ralph and Marshall Duncan and Dutch >Puckett. Burial in Rose Hill Cemetery, Bells, TX. (Grayson Co.). > >RICHARDSON, Mollie E., 90, of Leslie, AR. >Died June 24, 2002 in the Clinton Nursing Home (?AR). She was b. Mar 17, >1912 in Howe, TX d/o Tas and Vera McCORD GEE. She m. Clem Richardson on >Dec 11, 1948 in Waco, TX. She is survived by son David W. Ridge, daugh >Lynell LaRue, sister Myrtle Brooks and gr and ggrandchildren. She was >preceded by her husband on Nov 19, 1997, her parents and a brother , Hugh GEE. > >That's all for now. As usual, email me privately if you want more >information from the obit. > >Lea Head --=======9F36C70======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-367F316C Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.372 / Virus Database: 207 - Release Date: 6/20/02 --=======9F36C70=======--