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COOPER, Bessie Slaton: 1909 – 1994
Name of Deceased: Bessie Slaton Cooper
Date of Birth: 03 Jun 1909
Place of Birth: Eldorado, Oklahoma
Date of Death: 11 Aug 1994
Place of Death: Montrose, Colorado
Date of Burial: 16 Aug 1994
Place of Burial: Quanah Memorial Park, Quanah, Hardeman, Texas
Name of Funeral Home: Price-Jackson Funeral Home
Location of Funeral Home: Quanah, Texas
Date of Funeral: 16 Aug 1994
Time of Funeral: 10 a.m.
Officiator: Rev. Danny West
Relationship to Hardeman County: lived in Quanah, Texas
Bessie Slaton Cooper
Bessie Slaton Cooper, 85, of Montrose, Co., died Thursday, August 11, in San Juan Living Center in Montrose. Services were held at 10 a.m. Tuesday, August 16, at Price-Jackson Funeral Home chapel in Quanah, with the Rev. Danny West officiating. Burial was in Quanah Memorial Park under the direction of Price-Jackson Funeral Home.
Mrs. Cooper was born June 3, 1909, to Raymond and Sarah Slaton in Eldorado, Ok., and moved to Quanah at an early age. She married Doyle Bevel Cooper on April 7, 1928, in Lazare. He preceded her in death on Oct. 5, 1985.
She was a homemaker and a member of the Baptist church. She was preceded in death by four brothers and one sister.
Survivors include a son, William R. (Bill) Cooper of Quanah; two daughers, Frieda Owens of Quanah and Glenda Holley of Montrose, Co.; four sisters, Quava Golden of Quanah, Lois Collins of Childress, Ila Hanks of Hobbs, N.M., and Ray Westfall of Gainesville; seven grandchildren; and seven great-great-grandchildren
SLATON, Hattie B.: 1916 – 1975
Name of Deceased: Hattie B. Slaton
Date of Birth: 19 Jan 1916
Place of Birth: Quanah, Texas
Date of Death: 14 Jun 1975
Place of Death: Hardeman County, Texas
Date of Burial: 16 Jan 1975
Place of Burial: Quanah Memorial Park, Quanah, Hardeman, Texas
Name of Funeral Home: Knowles Funeral Home
Location of Funeral Home: Quanah, Texas
Date of Funeral: 16 Jan 1975
Time of Funeral: 2 p.m.
Officiator: Rev. Loren Williams
Relationship to Hardeman County: lived in Quanah, Texas
Publication: unknown
Publication Date: unknown
Obituary: Slaton Services Saturday
Funeral services for Mrs. Hattie B. Slaton, 59, who died suddenly in her home on Saturday, June 14, were Monday, June 16 at the First Christian Church at 2 p.m. with Rev. Loren Williams officiating. Burial was in Quanah Memorial Park under the direction of Knowles Funeral Home.
Born January 19, 1916 in Quanah, Mrs. Slaton married Willard R. Slaton on December 24, 1934 in Childress. She was preceeded in death by her only daughter in 1967.
Survivors include her husband, Willard, of the home; five brothers, Rayford and Horton Murphy of Quanah; Joe and Claude Murphy of Plainview and Allen Murphy of Texas City; and one grandson.
Pallbearers were Bill Cooper, Lowell Slaton, Buddy Mitchell, Bill Wheat, Morris Taylor and Bill Burch.
SLATON, Sarah Eula (Childress): 1887 – 1983
Name of Deceased: Slaton, Sarah Eula (Childress)
Date of Birth: 16 Sep 1887
Place of Birth: Montague County, Texas
Date of Death: 04 Sep 1983
Place of Death: Quanah, Hardeman, Texas
Date of Burial:
Place of Burial: Quanah Memorial Park, Quanah, Hardeman, Texas
Name of Funeral Home: Knowles Funeral Home
Location of Funeral Home: Quanah, Texas Date of Funeral:
Time of Funeral: 2:00 p.m.
Officiator:
Relationship to Hardeman County: lived in Quanah, Texas
QUANAH – Mrs. Sarah Eula Slaton, 95, died Sunday in a Quanah hospital.
Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Monday at Knowles Funeral Home Chapel with Dr. Edgar Fox, pastor of the First Christian Church, and the Rev. Hugh Daniel, pastor of the First Methodist Church, officiating. Interment was in Quanah Memorial Park.
Mrs. Slaton was born Sept. 16, 1887, in Montague County, and moved to Hardeman county in 1920.
Surviving are five daughters, Bessie Cooper and Quava Golden, both of Quanah, Lois Collins of Childress, Ila Hanks of Hobbs, N.M., and Ray Westfall of Gainesville; three sons, Dick Slaton of Quanah and Bill Slaton and W.R. Slaton, both of Childress; two sisters, Viola Durham of Saint Jo and Ora Brashier of Oklahoma City; two brothers, Dow Childress of Saint Jo and Eugene Childress of Oklahoma City; 25 grandchildren; 58 great-grandchildren and 15 great-great-grandchildren.
COOPER, Doyle B.: 1906 – 1985
Date of Birth: 26 Jan 1906
Place of Birth: Cumby, Texas
Date of Death: 05 Oct 1985
Place of Death: Quanah, Hardeman, Texas
Date of Burial: 07 Oct 1985
Place of Burial: Quanah Memorial Park, Quanah, Hardeman, Texas
Name of Funeral Home: Knowles Funeral Home
Location of Funeral Home: Quanah, Texas
Date of Funeral: 07 Oct 1985
Time of Funeral: 4:00 p.m.
Officiator: Dr. Nodell Dennis
Relationship to Hardeman County: lived in Hardeman County since 1924
Rites Held For Doyle B. Cooper, 79
Doyle B. Cooper, 79, of 1006 West 6th Street in Quanah, died Saturday, Oct.5, at the Hardeman County Memorial Hospital in Quanah.
Funeral services were conducted Monday, Oct. 7, at 4 p.m. from the First Baptist Church in Quanah with the pastor, Dr. Nodell Dennis, officiating. Burial was in Quanah Memorial Park under direction of Knowles Funeral Home.
Mr. Cooper was born at Cumby, Tex. on Jan. 26, 1906. He moved to Hardeman County in 1924 from Hunt County. He married the former Bessie Slaton on April 7, 1928 in Cottle County.
Survivors include his wife, Bessie Cooper, of Quanah; two daughters, Frieda Cooper of Quanah and Glenda Cooper Holley of Montrose, Colo.; a son, William Raymond (Bill) Cooper of Quanah; two brothers, Jessie Dale Cooper and Albert Brown Cooper, both of Sulphur Springs; five sisters, Juanita Defoor of Paducah, Hughlene Irvin, Coy Drybread and Ruth Beasley, all of Bisbee, Ariz., and Ruby Mann of Sulphur Springs; seven grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.
EVERITT, Margaret Decker: 1897 – 1999
Margaret Decker Everitt – Descendant of Gen. Sam Houston
Sam Houston descendant dies at 102
Services for Margaret Decker Everitt, who was Sam Houston’s oldest living descendant, will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday (Dec. 5th) at Trinity Episcopal Church, 1015 Holman (Houston, Harris County, Texas).
She died in St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital (Houston, Harris County, Texas) on Tuesday (Nov. 30th) at 102.
Her grandmother, Nancy Elizabeth Morrow, was one of Houston’s eight children and his oldest daughter.
Everitt, who drove until she was 99, was born Feb. 7, 1897, in Georgetown (Williamson County, Texas). Her father, Davis E. Decker, was a state senator and a judge.
Everitt spent much of her young life at Quanah in Hardeman County in North Texas.
In 1997, at the time of her 100th birthday, she confided that being a descendant of Houston, Texas’ greatest hero, was a source of embarrassment to her when she was a child.
“I hated it because I thought it made me different from others,” she explained.
Everitt’s first husband, Henry S. Aurand, rose to lieutenant general in the Army during World War II and was the father of her two sons, now deceased. She divorced him, remarried him, then divorced him again.
She and New York banker Archibald Lawson Jr. were then married for six years when he died.
She said her fourth marriage, to Edward A. Everitt, who rose to an Army colonel, proved to be her best. They had been married 35 years when he died in 1970.
Burial will be Dec. 10 in Arlington National Cemetery.
RICHMOND, Cleva Owen
QUANAH, Texas – Cleva Owen Richmond, 67, of Quanah died Saturday, Aug. 8, 1998, in a Quanah, Texas, hospital. Services will be at 2 p.m. today at the Church of Christ with J.B. Lamb of Hilltop Lakes, Texas, officiating. Burial will be in Goodlett, Texas, Cemetery under the direction of Price-Jackson Funeral Home. Mrs. Richmond was born Sept. 19, 1930, in Goodlett. She and Bob Richmond were married Jan. 5, 1952, in McAllen, Texas. He died March 25, 1975. She was a longtime resident of Quanah and was a teacher. She was a member of the Church of Christ. Survivors include a son, Charles of Moore, Okla.; a daughter, Robyn Knight of Lubbock, Texas; four sister, Billye McKaskle, Norma Fae Jackson, Dorothy Goss and Robbie Hurt, all of Quanah; a brother, Clifford Owen of Tuscon, Ariz.; and three grandchildren.
DWYER, Jean: 1932 – 3007
Jean Dwyer Jean Dwyer, 74, passed away Monday, Oct. 15, 2007, at Prairie House Living Center in Plainview. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007, at St. Alice Catholic Church with Monsignor Curtis Halfmann officiating.
Burial will follow in Parklawn Memorial Gardens under the direction of Kornerstone Funeral Directors of Plainview.
Mrs. Dwyer was born Dec. 4, 1932, in Punkin Center, Texas, to William F. and Mata Jansen. She moved to Plainview in 1952 and married Leroy Alexander Dwyer on Aug. 20, 1953, in Plainview, Texas. He passed away Dec. 5, 1988. She was a dental assistant for Dr. Baldwin for 28 years.
She had currently worked for Dr. Gutierrez for 17 years. Mrs. Dwyer was a member of St. Ann’s Altar Society and St. Alice Catholic Church. She is survived by three sons, Roy Dwyer of Weatherford, Dale Dwyer and wife, Judy, of Plainview and Glen Dwyer and wife, Lesa, of Plainview; one brother, Lawrence Jansen of Denver, Colo.; one sister, Patsy Neilson of Amarillo; four grandchildren, Amy and Kris Bosley of Amarillo, Melinda and Kane Flanagan of Amarillo, Haley Dwyer of Lubbock and Camille Dwyer of Plainview; and one great-grandson on the way, Kason Reed Flanagan.
A vigil service will be held at 7 p.m. today at Kornerstone Funeral Directors Chapel. The family suggests memorials to the American Cancer Society 3411 73rd St. Lubbock, TX 79423, or St. Alice Catholic Church 1113 Galveston St., Plainview, TX 79072.
