This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Burtis, Britt, Baskin, Williams Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/9749 Message Board Post: Cameron Herald, Thur., 20 July 2006 Jewel Williams Burtis, 90, of Buckholts died July 18 in a Cameron nursing facility. Funeral services are set for 10 a.m. Friday at Marek-Burns-Laywell Funeral Home in Cameron with Rev. Charles Conklin officiating. Burial will follow in Hope Lutheran Memorial Park in Buckholts. Family visitation is tonight from 6 to 8 p.m. at the funeral home. Burtis, a retired vice-president for Buckholts State Bank. He was born Oct. 25, 1915 in Cameron to Clarence B. and Mary (Britt) Baskin. She attended Corinth and Buckholts schools where she was valedictorian of her graduating class. In 1932 she married Elmer Williams and he preceded her in death in 1964. After his death she married Steve Burtis and he preceded her in death in 1990. She was a member of the First Baptist Church in Buckholts serving for many years as Sunday School teacher, church secretary and treasurer, church clerk and W.M.U. president. Survivors include a son Douglas L. Williams and wife Virginia of Buckholts; three grandchildren: Douglas K. Williams and wife Bea of Rockdale, Sherry Dusek and husband Lanny of Richland, WA, and Monte Williams and wife Diedre of Denton; six great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Memorials may be made to the First Baptist Church of Buckholts or Hope Lutheran Memorial Park