The Longview Daily News, Fri., Oct. 25, 1940:

Mrs. Ada FRANKLIN, 70, died at the home of Mrs. Myrtle Clinton on the Marshall road on 
Thursday. Funeral services will be held at St. Anthony’s Catholic church Saturday, with 
a low recium mass. Rev. James P. Callahan will be in charge. Burial will be in Grace Hill 
cemetery. The Rains & Talley funeral home will be in charge of the arrangements.

Mrs. Franklin was stricken with paralysis shortly after she came to Longview six years ago 
as a book salesman. She has been an invalid since that time and has been cared for by Mrs. 
Clinton and Mrs. Nora C. Davis, supervisor of the Gregg Memorial Hospital.