Charlotte Haris donated to our list and web site. There are several others I will send out. > Friday, February 8, 1963 (Whitney Messenger?) > Tom Worley Final Rites Here Sunday > Funeral services for Tom Worley, 86, were held at 2 p. m. Sunday at the > Prairie Valley Baptist Church. Rev. Edwin Crank, Rev. Philliy [sic] Digby > and Rev. Calvin Halbert officiated. Burial was in Whitney Cemetery. > Pallbearers were eight grandsons, George Worley, Ray Worley, Tolbert > Worley, Jr., Odell Chappell, Kenny Sprinkle, Winston Worley, Delton Worley > and Tommy Dean Worley. > A large number of out-of-town relatives and friends attended funeral > services Sunday. > Mr. Worley died at about 5:45 p. m. Friday while fighting a grass fire near > his home three miles south of Whitney. His body was discovered by a > son-in-law, Tracy Andrews, and a neighbor, Emmett Thompson, who were also > fighting the fire some two hundred yards away. > Born in Wynn [sic--should be Wayne] County, Tenn., Mr. Worley was a retired > farmer. He was the last of 11 children of Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Worley who > came to Texas 86 years ago and located south of Whitney. Deceased had lived > in this area all his life with the exception of a year spent at Burnett > County. > He was married to Addie Freeman in 1900. She died in 1925. > Mr. Worley was a Uember [sic] of Prairie Valley Missionary Baptist Church > where final rites were held. > Survivors include five sons, Braxton Worley of Corsicana, Tolbert Worley of > Kopperl, Jessie Lee Worley of Austin, and Charles Worley of West Columbia; > three daughters, Mrs. Tracy Andrews of Whitney, Mrs. Bob Allsup of > Kingsville, and Mrs. Roy Sprinkle of Sonnyvale, California. _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com