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/8506 Message Board Post: Rockdale Reporter, Thur., 24 Mar 2005 Dockery Funeral services for Seth Dockery Jr., 83, were held at 1 p.m. Saturday, March 19, 2005, at First Baptist Church in Cameron. A retired teacher and coach, Mr. Dockery died Tuesday, March 15, at his Cameron home after a long battle with cancer. Mr. 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 U.S. Army’s 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 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 Scholarship Foundation. Mr. Dockery was also 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. Mr. Dockery received numerous awards for his volunteer work in the community from the Yoe Booster Club, Milam County 4-H, the Chamber of Commerce, State FFA, the NAACP and the Yoe Band Booster Club. He was also a three-time “Lion of the Year” with the Cameron Evening Lions Club. Survivors include his wife, Zelma Smizer Dockery; daughters Grace Dockery, Crystal Dockery, both of Temple; a son, Seth Dockery III of Dallas; a brother-in-law, David Smizer; sisters-in-law Margie Garcia and Earsilene Hudspeth; also, nieces, nephews and a host of other family and friends. Memorial contribution may be made to the O. J. Thomas Scholarship Fund, c/o First National Bank, 102 N. Houston, Cameron, TX 76520; and the Cameron ISD Scholarship Foundation, P.O. Box 1214, Cameron, TX 76520.