Mathis, Sylvia Marcella 


DIANA -- Services for Sylvia Marcella Mathis, 76, of Diana, will be 10 a.m. Tuesday, 
February 7, 2006, at Grubbs-Loyd Funeral Home Chapel in Diana, with the Rev. Mike 
Brittain officiating. Interment will be in Grace Hill Cemetery in Longview. 
Arrangements are under the direction of Grubbs-Loyd Funeral Home in Diana. Mrs. Mathis 
passed away Friday, February 3, at her residence. Sylvia was born May 18, 1929, in 
Mobile, Ala., to Fred and Sylvia Bates. She was a homemaker and affiliated with Morton 
Baptist Church. She is survived by her husband, A.J. of Diana; three sons and 
daughters-in-law, James and Frances of Diana, Billy and Joni of Longview, and Sherman 
and Rhonda of Bradenton, Fla.; a daughter and son-in-law, Becky and Louis Refior of 
Wichita, Kan., six grandchildren; 10 great-grandchildren; and one great-great-grandchild. 

Published in the Longview News-Journal on 2/5/2006.