This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Dockery, Smizer Classification: Obituary Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hkB.2ACE/8492 Message Board Post: Cameron Herald, Thur., 17 Mar 2005 Funeral services for Seth Dockery Jr., 83, of Cameron are set for 1 p.m. Saturday at the First Baptist Church in Cameron. A wake for Dockery will be held at 7 p.m. Friday at the Progressive Missionary Baptist Church, 1006 W. Sixth St. in Cameron. A retired teacher and coach, Dockery died Tuesday morning at his Cameron home after a long battle with cancer. Dockery was the only child born to Leola and Seth Dockery Sr. on Dec. 21, 1921 in Globe Hill near Giddings. He accepted Christ at an early age at the Globe Hill Baptist Church. He attended Globe Hill Rural School and graduated from Giddings Colored High School. After graduation, he served in the United States Army 593rd Field Battalion during World War II. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Samuel Huston College in Austin (now Huston-Tillotson University) majoring in sociology and minoring in education where he also was a member of the Omega Psi Phi Fraternity. He received his Master of Education degree from Texas Southern University in Houston. Along with his career, he was very involved in the church and community. At the time of his death, he was Chairman of the Deacon Board and Superintendent of Sunday School for the Progressive Missionary Baptist Church, President of the Brotherhood in the Lincoln District Missionary Baptist Association, President of the O. J. Thomas Alumni Association Cameron Chapter, and Board Director of the Cameron ISD Education Foundation. He also stayed active in the Yoe High Booster Club, Gideon's International and the Future Farmers of America. He was a past president of Yoe High Booster Club, past president of Cameron Evening Lions Club, past director of the Cameron Area Chamber of Commerce, and past precinct chairman for the Democratic Party. He also received numerous awards for his volunteer work in the community from the Yoe Booster Club, Milam County 4-H, the chamber of commerce, the NAACP and the Yoe Band Booster Club. He was also a three-time Lion of the Year with the Cameron Evening Lions Club. He is survived by his wife, Zelma Smizer Dockery; daughters Grace Leola Dockery, Crystal Yvette Dockery and a son, Seth Dockery III. Other survivors include a brother-in-law, David Smizer; sisters-in-law Margie Garcia and Earsilene Hudspeth and a host of other family and friends. The Dockery family has asked that in lieu of flowers, friends make contributions to the O. J. Thomas Scholarship Fund, c/o First National Bank 102 N. Houston Cameron, TX 76520, or the Cameron ISD Scholarship Foundation at P.O. Box 1214, Cameron, TX 76520. Jackson Mortuary in Cameron is in charge of arrangements.