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Challis, James E. (Ike)
Challis, Marie Beard
Fuller, Barbara Alyne
Grigg, Horace
Johnson, Joe M.
King, Jane H. F.
McAllister, Genevieve Langham
McKnight, Felix R.
Pharr, Mildred Walker
Powell, Johnnie L.
Rogers, Joe Hudnall
Sizemore, Georgia
Strickland, Marjorie
Threlkeld, Delle Cass
Tolley, Donna Shoemaker
Watson, Joseph P. Jr. |
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Joe M. Johnson
July 28, 1930 - November 8, 2006 |
Funeral
services for Joe M. Johnson, 76,
will be held at 10 a.m. Monday,
November 13, 2006, at Laird
Funeral Home, Nacogdoches,
Texas, with Bill Sherrill and
Dorian Flynn, North Street
Church of Christ, officiating.
Mr. Johnson passed away
Wednesday, November 8, 2006, in
Fort Worth, Texas. Joe Johnson
was born July 28, 1930 in
Canadian, Oklahoma, to Harold
Revere and Johnye Elizabeth
McLemore Johnson. He graduated
from Tomball High School in
Tomball, Texas, in 1948. He
received a bachelor of business
administration degree from
Abilene Christian College. He
married Doris Marie Roach in
1950. In 1936 when Mr. Johnson
was in first grade, he was a
survivor of the New London
school explosion. His experience
is captured in the play, "A
Texas Tragedy" written by his
brother, Dr. Bobby H. Johnson.
Mr. Johnson raised his family in
Tomball, Texas. During this
time, he was on the Tomball
school board, an elder in the
Tomball Church of Christ and on
the Tomball Hospital board. He
was proud of the accomplishments
of the hospital board with the
construction of the Tomball
Medical Center complex during
the time he served on the board.
Moving to Nacogdoches in 1976,
Mr. Johnson worked with the
Nacogdoches Independent School
District as business manager for
21 years before his retirement
in 1997. He was a member of the
Nacogdoches Rotary Club,
receiving the Paul Harris
fellowship, and was active with
the North Street Church of
Christ, which he served as
deacon. In his later years, Mr.
Johnson enjoyed watching his
five grandchildren in all of
their activities. He is survived
by his wife of 56 years, Doris
Marie Johnson of Nacogdoches;
his children, Eric Johnson and
his wife, Patti, of Nacogdoches,
Kyle Johnson of Houston, Cindy
Edwards and her husband, Doug,
of Nacogdoches, and Kent Johnson
and his wife, Rebekah, of
Nacogdoches; his grandchildren,
Jamie and Jessica Johnson,
Kendall and Ellie Bennett, and
Andrew Edwards, all of
Nacogdoches. He is also survived
by his brother, Dr. Bobby H.
Johnson and his wife, Myrna, of
Nacogdoches; his sister, Judy
McGuire and her husband, Rich,
of Clear Lake City, Texas; his
sister-in-law, Wanda Coker of
Big Spring, Texas; and special
family friends, Richard and
Chaurcley Cook of Nacogdoches as
well as many cousins, nephews
and nieces, and friends.
Pallbearers will be Arlis
Clepper, Tom Compton, Austin
Cook, Richard Cook, Jimmy
Fleming, Randy Laster, Ken
Warlick and Lonnie Wilkerson. In
lieu of flowers, the family
requests that memorial gifts be
made to the New London Museum,
P. O. Box 477, New London, Texas
75682. Visitation will be from 4
to 7 p.m. today at Laird Funeral
Home.
Published in The Daily Sentinel
on 11/12/2006 |
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Jane Hazlewood Ferguson King |
Submitted by
the Family July 2005
Jane Hazlewood Ferguson King
1915-2005
Jane Hazlewood Ferguson, 89, a
resident of Commerce since 1925,
passed away April 17, 2005
surrounded by family.
She was preceded in death by
husband Weldon B. “Jack” King;
parents Arthur Clinton Ferguson
and Freddie Claire Rush
Ferguson; and sisters Juanita
Ferguson Peacock and Emily
Claire Ferguson Smith.
Hazy graduated from East Texas
State Teacher’s College in 1935,
where her father was Dean of
Faculty and later the
university’s fourth president.
While there she was a university
beauty, Miss Commerce and
president of Tooanoowe social
club.
She taught kindergarten in the
New London, TX schools and was
one of the few survivors of the
1938 New London school
explosion.
Wed to Weldon B. King of Fairlie
in 1936, the couple lived in
Austin during employment with
the Legislative Budget Board.
They returned to Commerce after
the university’s School of
Business offered a teaching
position. Hazy was an
accomplished seamstress and
cook, nurturing homemaker and
grandmother and voracious bridge
player, who volunteered her time
between the Afflatus Club, the
University Dames and as junior
high Sunday School teacher at
the Methodist Church. In
retirement years, she was
employed by the Commerce Public
Library.
She is survived by son Weldon
Bennie King and wife Janice;
daughter Claire King Hale and
husband Harlin DeWayne; three
grandchildren, Emily Jane King
Brenner and husband Geoff,
George Harlin Hale and John
Benjamin Hale; one
great-grandchild, Braden Paul
Brenner and eight
step-great-grandchildren, Daniel
Beaumont Simpson, Mason McLellan
Minor, Quinten Aticus Minor,
Emerson Benedict Minor, Mallory
Ann Moffit, Anderson Joseph
Breyel, Rebecca Ann Breyel, and
Brittany Jeanine Breyel.
A memorial service was held at
the First United Methodist
Church. The family suggests
memorials to the Commerce Public
Library. |
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Genevieve Langham McAllister |
Austin
American-Statesman
January 23, 2004
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