Obituaries for: Mrs. W. A. Dunn, Elmer Garrett, W. L. Ballard
Athens Weekly Review
Thursday April 17, 1941
Mrs. W. A. Dunn Dies At Home In Chandler Area
Following an illness of several years, Mrs. W. A. Dunn, 60, wife
of a well-known merchant and landowner in the area south of
Chandler, died at the family home Tuesday evening.
Mrs. Dunn, long in ill health, was brought home several weeks ago
after being under treatment at a Jacksonville hospital for a
period of three months.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 3 o’clock
from the family residence, four miles south of Chandler.
Interment was in the Rock Hill Cemetery.
Deceased was a native of Hill county but had been a resident of
the Chandler section during the past twenty-eight years. She had
been a lifelong member of the Church of Christ.
Survivors include her husband, W. A. (Will) Dunn, and the
following children; Tracy Dunn, Houston, Mrs. E.M. Belcher, Tyler…..
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Athens Weekly Review
Thursday April 17, 1941
Rites Held For Former Athenian at Ft. Worth
Funeral services for Elmer Garrett, 42, who died at 4 o’clock
Tuesday morning at his residence in Fort Worth, were held in that
city Wednesday afternoon. Deceased, a native of Athens, had been
employed by the Fort Worth Power & Light Company in that city
for the past two decades. He was a son of Mrs. J. W. Garrett of
this city.
He is survived by his wife, the former Miss Dewey Douglas of
Martins Mill; his mother, Mrs. Garrett, Athens; four sisters,
Mrs. J. W. Pennell, Athens; Mrs. Walter Hanks, Levelland; Mrs.
Emmett Thomason, Electra; Mrs. Pearl Gilliam, Corsicana; three
brothers; Pete Garrett, Terrell; John Garrett, Salem, Ill., and
Jack Garrett, Leverett’s Chapel.
Athens Weekly Review
Thursday August 21, 1941
W. L. Ballard Dies Sunday at Eustace Home
W. L. Ballard, 68-year-old retired merchant of Eustace, died
Sunday night at 11:30 o’clock at the family home in Eustace.
Funeral services were held at 5 o’clock Monday afternoon at
the First Methodist church in Eustace with interment scheduled to
follow at the Moorehead cemetery. The rites were conducted by the
Reverend Grady Hallinquist of Wills Point with the assistance of
Rev. William Dickinson Jr., of Malakoff and the Rev. Phil
Trammell of Eustace. The arrangements were made by the Carroll
& Lehr Funeral Home of Athens.
Deceased was born in Winfield, Alabama, but had been a resident
of Henderson county since 1892, when he settled in the Cottonwood
community. He moved to Eustace in 1907. He was married in 1894 to
Miss Eula Graham of he Cottonwood area. He wife and three
children survive.
The surviving children are; two sons, J. A. Ballard, Malakoff,
and Woodrow Ballard, Tyler, and one daughter, Mrs. A. L. Sharpley
of Greenville.
Mr. Bllard had been a lifelong member of the Methodist church. He
had been actively identified with the Woodmen of the Wordl for a
number of years and had been one of Eustace’s best known
citizens during his long residence there.
A number of Athens people went to Eustace Monday afternoon to
attend services for the deceased.
Submitted by Holli Boone Kees
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