Hancock III, Joseph Carl 

Graveside services for Joseph Carl Hancock III, 76, of Longview and Grand Saline, 
Texas, will be held 2 p.m. Saturday, April 8, 2006, at Pine Hill Methodist 
Cemetery, with the Reverend Doyle Sumrall and the Reverend Thomas Pesnell 
officiating. Burial will follow at Pine Hill Methodist Cemetery, under the 
direction of Rader Funeral Home of Longview. Mr. Hancock passed away Tuesday, 
April 4, 2006, in Longview. Mr. Hancock was born January 7, 1930, in Birmingham, 
Alabama, to Joseph Carl and Elizabeth Phillips Hancock. He graduated from 
Henderson High School in 1947, and attended Texas A&M College. Mr. Hancock was 
a pilot and flight instructor, serving the bulk of his career with Braniff 
International Airways. He was a devoted husband and father and a longtime 
member of Main Street Baptist Church in Grand Saline, Texas. Mr. Hancock was a 
man of honor and integrity and was well-loved by all who knew him. He is survived 
by his wife, Dorothea Standard Hancock of Grand Saline; two daughters, Elizabeth 
Jeane Hancock of Nacogdoches, and Janet Dillon-Wolfe of Penrose, Colo.; three 
grandchildren, Hattie Hackler and Heather Dews, both of Nacogdoches, and Jason 
Eric Dillon of Penrose, Colo.; two sisters, Margaret Sumrall of Henderson, and 
Laurinda Alpenfels-Gloss of Boulder, Colo.; extended family, LaRue Dorsey and her 
son, Randy, both of Longview. A memorial guestbook may be signed online at 
www.raderfh.com.

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 4/7/2006.