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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