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MATHEW STEPHEN WALTERS
Services for Mathew Stephen Walters, 24, of Kilgore are pending at Rader Funeral Home of Kilgore. Mr. Walters passed away Friday, June 25, 2004 in Kilgore.
ISAAC ALVIN BOSLEY
Services for Isaac Alvin Bosley, former Kilgore resident and graduate of C.B. Dansby High School, will be 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 4, 2004 at Brentwood Baptist Church in Houston. Mr. Bosley died Monday, Aug. 30, 2004.
AKIN LEE HARRIS
Services for Akin Lee Harris, 71, of Longview were 2 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3, 2004 at the Rader Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Dale Turner officiating. Mr. Harris died Sunday, Aug. 29, 2004 in Longview.
He was born in Kilgore Nov. 5, 1932, to Roy Lee and Mary Louise Harris. He lived in or near Kilgore most of his life. He was of the Presbyterian faith. He worked for Hudson Construction at Texas Eastman for several years and retired from the Safety Department of Texas Eastman in 1995 after 37 years.
He was a member of the Elks Lodge, the National Rifle Association, had belonged to the same “Sweetwater deer lease” group for many years, and loved the hunting, cooking and life. He enjoyed table games and loved entertaining his many friends and family.
Mr. Harris is survived by his wife of 20 years, Carol Ann Green Spence Harris of Longview; his mother, Mary Louise Richards of Longview; two sons and daughters-in-law, David and Linda Harris of Longview and Rusty and Shannon Spence of Kilgore; two daughters and sons-in-law, Ruth and Michael Kusheba of Liberty City and Leanne and Rick Johnson of Big Sandy; two brothers-in-law; two sisters-in-law; seven grandchildren; three great-grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
Memorial contributions may be made to the American Heart Association.
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MARGIE MARIE PIERCE
Services for Margie Pierce, 81, of Kilgore were 10 a.m. Friday, Sept. 3, 2004 at the Rader Funeral Home Chapel with the Rev. Curtis Woods officiating. Burial was in the Isabel Chapel Cemetery. Mrs. Pierce died Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2004 in Kilgore.
Pallbearers were Jason Pierce, Jesse Davis, John Paul Phillips and Robby Cleary.
She was born April 3, 1923 in Fairplay. Mrs. Pierce was a homemaker and a member of the Eastview Church of God. She was a loving and devoted mother, grandmother and great-grandmother.
Mrs. Pierce is survived by two daughters and a son-in-law, Shirley Maxine Pierce of Longview and Karen Sue and Jesse Davis of Kilgore; a son and daughter-in-law, Robert Lee and JoAn Pierce; five grandchildren, Cherry Clark of Elderville, Jason Lee Pierce of Kilgore, Holly Kay Keith of Kilgore, Jesse Davis Jr. of Forney and Brandi Phillips of Marshall; eight great-grandchildren; numerous nieces, nephews and other loving family.
Her husband, Griff Pierce, precedes her in death.
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MARGARET MOBLEY
Services for Margaret Mobley, 78 formerly of Kilgore will be 10 a.m., Friday, March 11, 2005 at the Rader Funeral Home Chapel with the Reverend Gary Orr. Burial will follow in the Danville Cemetery. Mrs. Mobley died Wednesday, March 9, 2005 in Dallas, Texas.
She was born Oct. 10, 1926 in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Margaret married her husband Reverend Willie Mobley, May 5, 1945. They started his Baptist ministry early in life. They worked in churches throughout the country together, Willie as the pastor and Margaret as the pastor’s wife. The Mobley’s settled in East Texas in 1989.
She is survived by four daughters and sons-in-law, Pat and Ernest Brown of Tyler, Teresa and Clayton Henderson of Charlotte, North Carolina, Debbie and Ken Harrell of Kilbourne, Louisiana, Sandy and Johnny Costello of Kilbourne, Louisiana; two sons and daughters-in-law, Steve and Evonne Mobley of Washington, D. C., Philip and Lisa Mobley of Plano, Texas; two sisters, Elva J. Blevins of New Albany, Indiana, Sharon Bagshaw of Hardinsburg, Indiana; thirteen grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and many in-laws, cousins, nieces and nephews.
The family will receive friends at Rader Funeral Home Thursday evening between five and six-thirty p.m.
Memorial contributions may be made to the Alzheimer’s Association, 3613 South Broadway, Suite 401, Tyler, Texas 75701-8732
WILLIE LEE
Services for Willie Lee, 85, of Overton are pending with Southern Funeral Home of Henderson. He died Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at East Texas Medical Center in Tyler.
RUTH MCBRIDE HILL
Services for Ruth McBride Hill, 73, of New Boston, formerly of Kilgore will be 2 p.m., Thursday, March 10, 2005 at Rader Funeral Home Chapel withRev. Donald Beebe officiating. Burial will follow in Kilgore Cemetery. Mrs. Hill died Sunday, March 6, 2005 in New Boston as the results of an automobile accident.
She was born March 15, 1931 in Oklahoma City to Andrew and Eddice McBride. Her family moved to East Texas when she was young. Mrs. Hill attended public schools in Laird Hill. She was a homemaker and a Baptist. Mrs. McBride moved to New Boston in 1994.
She is survived by two sons, Danny Morgan of New Boston, Stephen Morgan of Nashville, TN; three daughters, Rhonda and Eddie Parsley of New Boston, Carol and Mike Denson of Mount Pleasant, Arlene and Jeff Arnam of Wynnewood, OK; three brothers, Charles and Iris McBride of Kilgore, Edward McBride of Longview, Lonnie and Sue McBride of Longview; a sister, June Clark of Leverett's Chapel; six grandchildren; several nieces and nephews.
Her husband and her parents preceded her in death.
Pallbearers will be Matthew Morgan, Eddie Parsley, Mike Denson, Charles McBride, David McBride and Lonnie McBride.
THELMA CLEO LOPER
Graveside services for Thelma Cleo Loper, 88, of Overton will be 10:30 a.m. Friday, March 11, 2005 with the Rev. Don McPherson officiating. Burial will be in Pleasant Hill Cemetery at New London under the direction of Burrows Overton Funeral Home. She died Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at Sunshine Nursing Home in New London after a lengthy illness.
She was born March 15, 1916 in Overton to William Thomas and Lena Frances McCarty Harris. She lived most of her life in Overton and was a charter member of Overton Missionary Baptist Church, where she kept the church nursery for over 20 years and sang in the choir. She retired from Overton schools after 29 years as assistant manager of the school cafeteria.
She was preceded in death by her husband, Benjamin Foster Loper in 1985.
She is survived by two daughters, Eloise and H.A. hughes of San Antonio, Joann and Chuck Stayton of Overton; sister, Martha (Peggy) Melton of Overton; brother, Milton Harris of Grandview; four grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren.
Visitation will be Thursday, March 10, 2005 from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at the funeral home.
CLODELL CLAYTON
Services for Clodell Clayton, 97, of Kilgore will be 10 a.m. Saturday, March 12, 2005 at the Rader Funeral Home Chapel with pastor Elizabeth A. Wourms officiating. Burial will follow in the Lakewood Cemetery, Henderson. Mrs. Clayton died at her home, Wednesday, March 9, 2005.
Mrs. Clayton was born March 15, 1907 in Santa Anna to Herbert and Ruby Jackson. She and her husband, Roy E. Clayton Sr., retired to Lake Cherokee in 1965. Mrs. Clayton moved to Kilgore in 1985.
She is preceded in death by her husband.
She is survived by daughter, Stephanie and Dan W. Upson, DVM of Manhattan, KS; son, Roy E. Clayton Jr. of Manhattan, KS; one brother, Joe Jackson of Kilgore; two sisters, Mona Graham of Emerald Bay, Sue Ford of Shreveport, LA; five grandchildren; eight great-grandchildren; numerous nieces and nephews.
Memorial contributions may be made to Greater Hospice of Texas, Inc., 1905 West Loop 281, Space #81, Longview, Texas 75604.
The family will receive friends at Rader Funeral Home Friday evening between 6:30 and 7:30 p.m.
BEATRICE NEAL
Services are pending for Beatrice Neal, 85, of Henderson with Southern Funeral Home of Henderson. She died Wednesday, March 9, 2005 at Henderson Memorial Hospital.
EDNA EMMA GUIN DANAHY
Edna Emma Guin was born in Caster, La. on May 27,1904. She was the third daughter and third child of five daughters and one son born to Charles Foster Guin and Georgia Pardue Guin. Instead of starting school at age six as some other children did, Edna took care of her younger siblings while her mother worked in the cotton fields.
She was very talented musically. At a young age she taught herself to play a repossessed pump organ that was being stored at her home. Later she got a chance to play an itinerant fiddler's fiddle and realized that she wanted a fiddle! So she went to work picking cotton until she had enough money to buy herself a fiddle.
She was only able to attend public school through the eighth grade. For the next several years she worked at whatever job was available, the best being Postmaster at the U. S. post office in Alberta, La. She kept that position until the post office was shut down due to severe vandalism. All her life she enjoyed showing friends the money order for one cent that the government sent her as final payment. One time when she was helping a black lady cook at a cafe, she started frying eggs for each customer individually rather than just frying a platter full. The cook got so upset that she "fell into a faint" Edna decided to leave that job.
Later she was cooking and serving tables at a different cafe, when a group of laborers came in. One young man, Eddie J. Danahy, liked her looks and personality. She liked his, too. They were married Nov. 1, 1928 in Alberta, La. with no relatives in attendance. They worked at whatever jobs they could find, even running a laundry with Eddie's brother and wife. Edna was popular as a fiddler for dances in peoples homes.
Their son, Eddie Jerry Danahy Jr. was born in July 1931, three months before they moved to the East Texas oil fields near Kilgore. They had a two room house built and then added two more rooms to accommodate as many as seventeen relatives who were hunting work! It was a hard life with no electricity for the first seven years, and no running water. But they made many friends, and thrived.
There was almost no task that Edna couldn't do. When the sister of her best friend, Mrs. Mac, was diagnosed with tuberculosis, and had to be quarantined from her family, Edna built a room for her to live in. In thanks, Mrs. Mac gave Edna a china cabinet which she cherished all her life.
Edna loved having cameras, and taking pictures, even buying a movie camera in the 1940's. There are more than a 1000 snapshots in her home, but very few of her, because she was the one behind the camera.
After thirty-eight years of oil-field work, she and Eddie retired to a house that they built on Caddo Lake. They enjoyed fishing, playing dominoes and cards, and having friends and relatives visit them sometimes every day. Edna was a trot line fisherman. We have a picture of her (in a dress, of course) holding a fifteen pound channel cat that she had caught on her trot line that she had run herself using her own John boat.
Another of her pleasures in those seventeen retirement years was being active in the Karnack Baptist Church, and later in the Non-denominational Caddo Lake Church, the pastor of which lived next door to Edna and Eddie. They both helped build the church building.
Edna was a wonderful cook. Her catfish fried in a deep cast iron skillet was perfect, as was her chicken. She made a heavenly yellow cake layered with bananas, nuts and real whipped cream. She was "famous" for her coconut, chocolate, and pecan pies which she made for the Mobil Oil retirement, senior citizen, and church dinners.
She was accomplished at knitting, crocheting, embroidering, quilting and tailoring. The two heavy bedspreads that she crocheted would certainly win prizes. When her grandsons were young she made shirts for them that had no raw seams. Every seam was covered with a sewn-on bias strip.
As a novelty, she embroidered a map of the United States. Using different colored thread for each year, she embroidered the route of the family's cross-country vacation trips.
She owned a two wheeler bicycle when they lived on the oil lease. After retirement, she bought a three wheeler. It was an enthralling sight to see that "old"woman (wearing a dress, of course) flying down that lake road on her three wheeler.
A clever thing that she could do was recite the alphabet very rapidly, backwards. Z, Y, X, V, etc.
She was an excellent domino player, having learned the game at age five while watching older relatives play. The last game we played together was in the nursing home, when she was almost 100 years old. We played our best, but she won the game
Upon the death of her husband in 1987, she bought a home in Kilgore. she joined the Eastview Baptist church and became a loyal member. As the saying goes "whenever the doors opened, she was there." She loved being the Sunshine chairman or treasurer of her Sunday School class. On Sunday mornings before Sunday School, she went to the nursing home and pushed wheelchair bound residents to the worship service lead by the chaplain, James Griffin.
At her home, she became fanatic about keeping the leaves in her large yard swept up. She was sweeping the back yard at age eighty-seven when she fell and broke her hip. By grabbing blades of grass, she pulled herself around to the front yard where a passerby could see her. After having hip replacement surgery, she was soon sweeping the yard again, even though friends and family advised her against it. One friend, Paul Lucky, told her he was going to saw the handle off her rake. She replied, "I'll just buy another one!" She continued to sweep her yard, even while using a walker to stand, until at age ninety-five she became too weak to do it.
When her son was playing in the high school band, she became an avid football fan. In her later years, when she had three televisions , she sometimes had three different games going at the same time. For one of her birthdays in her nineties, a friend gave her a picture of Roger Staubach that Roger had autographed especially to her. She was proud of that picture.
She was a devoted Bible reader, having followed the schedule in "Our Daily Bread" and reading through the Bible twelve times. She received certificates from the church for doing this.
She moved to he Kilgore Manor in early 2004. For her 100th birthday, the Eastview Baptist church had a party for her with her friends and family and all the residents of the home invited.
She had a very strong personality that was on occasion hard to deal with, but her passing will leave forever a hole in the hearts of her son, Jerry Danahy Jr. and his wife, Fay, and her grandsons Paul Danahy and Michael (Cheryl and Betty) Danahy, and her former daughter-in-law, Disa Danahy and her remaining relatives and friends.
Her grandson, Michael, describes her as the sweetest, most fun and joking person in the world.
Services for Mrs. Danahy will be held at two o’clock p.m., Friday, March 11, 2004 at the Rader Funeral Home Chapel in Kilgore with the Reverends James Henderson and Larry Darnell officiating. Burial will follow in the Danville Cemetery and visitation will precede the funeral services from one until two o’clock p.m. at the funeral home.
