De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1984 Page: 7 of 8
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Armstrong Lodge No. 445 will
have a state meeting Tuesday, Sept.
4, at 8 p.m. Members are urged to
attend. Visitors are welcome.
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The Department of Public Safety
is estimating that as many as 54
deaths will result from traffic
accidents during the Labor Day
holiday. DPS Director Jim Adams
said the estimate is based upon
previous holiday experience.
“During the last Labor Day
period, we had 52 deaths reported in
both urban and rural accidents. The
inclusion of subsequent deaths due
to traffic-related injuries which
occurred during the period brought
the final count to 55,” Adams said.
“Obviously, we would be pleased
to have no fatal accidents during this
78-hour holiday, but our statistics
show that is not probable. We know
that some drivers will insist upon
dri ving while intoxicated, others will
deliberately exceed the speed limits
and still others will drive in a
careless or reckless manner,” he
said. “Unfortunately, fatal
accidents can be expected. ”
“DWI and speeding are always the
biggest contributing factors to our
traffic deaths, but the failure to use
seat belts is another reason we have
ZERA FLOYD
Zera Floyd, 89, died at 6:05 p.m.
Monday at Stephenville General
Hospital. Services were at 2:30 p.m.
Wednesday at Nowlin Funeral
Home.
The Rev. Oscar Heartsfield of
Grace Bible Baptist Church in
Stephenville officiated. Burial was
in the De Leon Cemetery.
Born Aug. 23, 1894, in Hickory
Flatt, Miss., she married Audie
Virgil Floyd Dec. 22, 1913, in the
Roach Community. She moved to De
Leon from New London in 1959. She
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was a Baptist
Her husband died in Oct. 1967; two
brothers, Homer Baker and Herman
Baker, also preceded her in death.
Survivors include a daughter,
Faye Crockett of De Leon; a
brother, Howard Baker of De Leon;
and two sisters, Zora Moore of
Pampa and Zelma Burke of
Washington.
Music was by LaJoyce Johnson.
Pallbearers were Charles Nabors,
Joe Benson, L. G. Caraway, Jim
Parker, Lewis Kimbro, and John
Spruill.
State Fann Insurance
ANNOUNCING
New Medicare Supplement
SEE LARRY SIMPSON
At 204 S. Texas
Or Cd At 103-2043 «r 393-0555 Far
1. Competitive Price 2. Local Agent
3. Sofid Company
FImkaw
9U-2135
gallons of unleaded gasoline.
Comanche County Crime Stoppers
will pay up to 81,080 reward , for
information leading to the arrest
and indictment on any crime
committed in Comanche County
Call Crime Stoppers at 915-356-3737
Do not give your name. Out of town,
call collect.
'84 Year End
CLEARANCE
SALE
nineties).
“His word my hope
secures; He will my shield and
portion be..”
The morning after James
died, J. C. walked into the
Comanche Chief office and told
me he’d Just bought me a
present.
“As long as life endures?
I said, “Well, thank you,
that’s very thoughtful of you.”
And he told me that he didn’t
ever want me to have to go buy
a plot for any of our children.
We got to talking about
funerals and burying and we
both discovered that we wa nted
to have a little history on tur
tombstone so that when sv.n*.-
one passed our graves, they
would at least know who we had
been and something we had
done while inhabiting this
earth.
So I promised to write his
epitaph if he went first and he
promised to write mine if I pre-
ceeded him.
“And mortal life shall
C€A*C..”
Well, J. C. died, just a short
time after his beloved May
died. We all agreed that al-
though he had had a stroke and
had not known what was going
on for a long time, he knew that
May was no longer at his side
and so he lost that will to live.
“I shall pass within the
veil...”
We worked on the words
that would be chisled in stone in
order to allow those who passed
this last resting place know
something about this fine man
and fine woman.
In fact, we cut the tributes
to the bone, but the only way we
could fit them all in was to have
two marble covers made for
their graves, so we couid write
a brief history. And so they lay,
side by side in the Oakwood
Cemetery in Comanche.
”...a life of joy and peace.”
J. C. Wilkerson, son of
Etholene Imogene Puyear and
John West Wilkerson:
Born near Briar, Wise
County Texas, August 6, 1886,
Died December 16,1973. Fourth
of seven children. Graduate of
The University of Texas, Class;
of 1912, Latin teacher, school;
superintendent, editor and pub%
Usher of the Comanche Chief. K*
avid sports fan and supporter of
the Comanche Indians. Com-
anche Maidens and U.T !x ng-
horns. He loved his wife, his
church, Comanche and his
country.
13, Blk. 19 (28x57) situated in the
City of De Leon, Comanche County;
part of 13, Blk. 19, situated in City of
De Leon, Comanche County; Lot 10,
Blk. 31, situated in the City of De
Leon, Comanche County; part of 1
and 2, Blk. 27, situated in the City of
De Leon, Comanche County; part of
4,1, and 6, Blk. 27, situated in the
City of De Leon, Comanche county;
part of 9 and 10, Blk. 31, situated in
the City of De Leon, Comanche
County; 2 lots out ofBlk. 26 A
102x136) situated in the City of
DeLeon, Comanche County; 1 acre
situated in the City of Comanche;
part of Lot 4, Blk. 4 (75x150) and part
of NWC of Blk. 58 (75x100) situated
in the City of Comanche.
Consideration: $10 and other
valuable consideration.
August 10: Delton Cogbum to W.
E. Bostick, All that certain lot being
5 acres, more or less, lying and
being situated in the County of
Comanche, State of Texas, and
being out of and a part of the J. r.
Stephens Survey and being out of a
tract described as 127 acres of land,
more or less. Consideration: 810.
April 20: W. T. Layfield, et ux, to
L. H. Jones, All that certain 10 acre
tract of land out of a 91.2 acre tract.
Consideration: $10.
August 14: William Ermon
Davidson to Jay Carl Wilson and
wife, All that certain lot in the City of
Comanche, and being a part of and
out of Blk. 4 of the Walcotts Addition.
Consideration: $10.
August 2: R. P. Scott to Gary Lacy
and Robert Cobb, All that certain lot
situated in the City of Comanche,
and being the E 58 ft. of Lot No. 8 In
Blk. 2 of the Gage Addition.
Consideration: $10.
Ray Harvey taught the Sunday
School class with 31 residents
present. Trinity Worship Center
with Rev. Marvin Andrews was in
charge of the afternoon service. Also
present for the worship service were
Linda and Carline Andrews, Curtis,
Joyce, Charity and Shana Jones,
Fred, Judy, and Lindsey Williams,
Mary Vera and mother, Maurice
Hanson, Dewey Logan, Ruby, Gregg
4 Cyl.,
4 Speed,
Air CondHioner, SScfing
Window, Hitch
Total 54 For Weekend
ao many fatalities If more drivers
would simply stay sober, drive
within the speed limits and wear
seat belts, fatalities would decline
still further,” said Adams.
DPS statistics for the year to date
reveal a two per cent decrease in
fatalities statewide. Adams says the
decrease in total deaths may
indicate more people are using seat
belts.
"While the decline in fatalities is
not as substantial as we’d like to see,
we do feel that seat belt use is
increasing and may be a factor in
this decrease. It is an obvious
lifesaving device that is available in
the vast majority of our vehicles,”
noted Adams.
DPS will conduct two major
programs during the Labor
Day period. Operation Motorcide
will provide updated numbers of
traffic deaths to the news media as
the accidents occur. Operation
Holiday stations troopers at
locations where high volumes of
traffic are anticipated or where
violations are expected.
Homecoming brings with it
memories of the past and of
course, memories of relatives
and people who helped make
Texas the great state that it is.
This thought was brought
to my mind at the Folkllfe
Festival when we heard the
plaintive sound of a bagpipe
playing that melodious old
hymn “Amazing Grace.” As
always when hearing this song,
I felt the presence of my father
in-law, J. C. Wilkerson, a pio-
neer Texan, who loved this
country and state and left a
heritage to his family of high
ideals and moral respons-
“Amazing Grace! Hew
sweet the sewed...”
J. C. sang this song to his
children and grandchildren as
he learned it from his parents
on the farm and at prayer
meetings in the little Methodist
Church he attended near Azale.
Texas. In later years he was at
his top singing form when he
would attend the First Metho-
dist Church in Comanche and
rare back in his pew and let go
In booming tones...
“That saved a wretch like
me.”
J. C. was rather a formal
person, not one to get close to as
you could to my mother-in-law.
May Brightman Wilkerson. Oh.
you knew he loved you. but he
was the kind who shook hands
with his grown children and
grandchildren when they came
home for a visit and always
signed his letters. “Your
father, J. C. Wilkerson.
“I once was loot, bat now
am found.”
J. C. was publisher of the
Comanche Chief newspaper and
had been a Latin teacher and
superintendent of schools
before he started newspaper
work. He was the perfect
example of the absent-minded
professor. A scholar, he would
read and write the nights away
and then would fall asleep the
next day during a boring
meeting or a dull sermon at
church.
“Was blind, bat aow I see.”
I remember the first time I
visited Bill, when we were
going together while students
at the University of Texas. I
was asleep downstairs In the
guest room when I was
awakened by loud splashing
and someone singing
"Amazing Grace” at the top of
their lungs at 3:30 in the
morning. It was J. C. who also
liked to sit la the big tub down-
stairs and read and sing-when
the mood struck-be it a.m. or
p.m.
“The Lard has promised
J. C. and May had a very
sad and heartbreaking event
happen in their life. Their
oldest and first child, James,
died at the age of 46. Now, J. C.
was distraught about thia,
in fact, he really didn't accept
the idea of Ms own death be-
cause he loved life so much.
Luckily this was the first
funeral since his parent’s
deaths in all of his family (all of
his brothers and sisters lived to
be in their late eighties and
Crime Stoppers
Coil 915-356-3737
CRIME OF THE WEEK
Sometime during the night of
August 25,1964, a burglary occurred
at a workshop belonging to the
Upper Leon Soil and Water District
at Proctor. Taken were the following
items: 1 Green Dayton Air
Compressor, 1 Wards Brand Airless
Sprayer Serial No. 560023, 1 Battery
Charger, and approximately 40
A devoted daughter, wile
and mother and best grand-
mother in the whole world.
Alma May Brightman
Wilkerson, daughter of Alma
Buford Wylie and Oswall Oliver
Brightman. Born Jim Ned, Cole-
man County, Texas, May 38,
1892, died October 27, 1973.
First of six children. Married in
Comanche on July 23. 1914.
Mother of 4 children: James
Claude Wilkerson. Jr., Alma
Jeaa Wilherson Wettel, Nancy
Jo Wilherson Barton. William
Brightman Wilhersou.
Thursday, August 30,1984
____Public Records
MARRIAGES RECORDED
August 8: Carrol Don
Fronterhouse and Mias Belinda Sue
Roberts by Rev. W. D. Bailey,
pastor, Gorman.
August 9: William Arnold Tipple,
Jr., and Mias Hollie Mae Holley by
Calvin Gray, Baptist minister,
Gustine.
August 10: Luther Andrews
Burdell and Ms Ruby Clara Weaver
by Payne Hattox, Church of Christ
minister, De Leon.
August 13: Charles Ray Haynes
and Ms. Margarette Allen Robbins
by Fred I. Roberson, Justice of the
Peace, Precinct 1, Comanche.
DEATHS RECORDED
August 8: Arravella Ross Hall,
age 87, at Western Hills Nursing
Home.
August 10: Omie Jane Shankle,
age 84, at Western Hills Nursing
Home.
August 13: Dorothy Nell Keeler,
sge 89, at residence, Comanche.
DEEDSRECORDED
August 9: Iva P. Henson to Glenn
G. Trotter and wife, All that certain
265 acres of land in Comanche
County being a part of the James
Hamilton Survey No. 85. Less and
except: However, the following 2
tracts of land: (1) 38.276 acres of
land dated January 26, 1984,
executed by Iva P. Henson to Teddie
S. Mankin, et ux. (2) 1.43 acres
executed by Bruce White and wife to
W. M. Henson. Consideration: $10.
August 9: Mary Loudermilk, a
widow, to Bill Jackson and wife, 29
acres of land out of the J. W. Cottrell
pre-emption survey and 25 acres out
of said B.B.B. and C. R.R. Co.
Survey situated in Comanche
County. Consideration: $10.
August 8: Charles W. Maguire and
Randy Moseley to Terry L.
Daugherty, All of our respective
right, title and interest in and to the
following described property. Tract
1: All that certain 6.35 acre tract
being Tract 18P of Wolfe
Pecanlands, Inc., Dev. No. 13, a
subdivision of Comanche County.
Tract 2: All that certain N. 4.1 acre
part of Tract 15P of Wolfe
Pecanlands, Inc. Development No.
13, a subdivision of Comanche
County. Consideration: $10.
August 9: James D. Marsh and
wife to Obie S. Allred and Robert D.
Allred, Being 53W acres of land,
more or less, out of the William
Needhan Survey. Less and except:
From the above described tract,
however, 1 acre heretofore deeded
for school purposes. Consideration:
810.
May 15: Jack Michael Willtrout
and Ruby Elizabeth Willtrout to
Ermadene E. Willtrout, as Trustee
for our children, Margie Willtrout,
James Willtrout, Matthew Willtrout,.
Sharon Willtrout, Mai-Lei E.
Willtrout, Susan Willtrout, and Kaye
Ann Willtrout, beneficiaries. All that
certain property situated in the
County of Comanche, State of Texas,
described as follows: All that
certain lot situated in Comanche
County and being 30.90 acres of land
out of the NWFo of Section 34, ETRR
Co. Survey. Consideration: Love and
affection which we have and bear
unto and toward our children.
August 10: Reuben G. Baxter to
Allen Bessent and wife, AU that
certain M.24 acres of land situated In
Comanche County about 9 miles NW
of the City of Comanche and being
06.24 acres out of the Samuel Heath
Survey. Consideration: $10.
Dec. 31, *75: Hazel L. Stephens, a
feme sole, to H. E. Stephens, Nonna
Stephens Price, Autry Carl
Stephens, and Debra Lynn Stephens,
In equal undivided shares, an
undivided 46 interest in all those
certain lots, the interest here being
conveyed, being an undivided 1/7
interest in such property or being an
undivided to interest in aU the
property herein conveyed: 335.5
acres, more or less, situated in
Comanche County; 326 acres, more
or less, situated in Comanche
County; 336 acres, more or less,
situated in Comanche County; 70.5
acres, more or less, situated in
Comanche County; 218.9 acres,
more or less, situated in Comanche
County; 189 acres, more or less,
situated in Comanche County; 160
acres, more or less, situated In
Comanche County; 26.5 acres, more
or less, situated in Comanche
County; 85 acres, more or less,
situated in Comanche County; 248.5
acres, more or less, situated in
Comanche County; 238 acres, more
or less, situated in Comanche
County; 84 acres, more or less,
situated in Comanche county; 88
acres, mors or lees, situated in
Comanche County; 161 acres, more
or less, situated in Comanche
County; Ml acres, more or less,
situated to Comanche County; 126
acres, more or leas, situated ta
Comanche County; 46 acres, more
or less, situated In Comanche
County; 188 acres, more or toes,
situated In Comanche County; E 88
ft of BOls 8,9, and 10 in the Ctty of
De Lson, Comanche county; part of
NOTICE
As of this date,
August 22, 1984,1
will no longer be
responsible for
any debts
incurred by
anyone other
than myself.
Earl Roy
Stephens IV
De Leon Nursing Home News
By Pat Auvensbiae, A.D.
and Kelly Smith, and Don and Peggy
Mitchell.
Joyce Jones had 10 residents
present for Monday night Bible
Reading. We appreciate all those
who come to make these services
possible.
Residents reported a geod singing
Thursday night. ■■ There were 13
gospel singers with 24 residents
present.
We have many visitors who fail to
sign the register. Those who did
register were Charlotte Dixon who
visited with Clarence Floyd, Jo
Cogbum visited Rex Cogbum, Una
Clamon, and Mae Sides, and Dewey
Logan visited Mode Mahan.
The Friendship Bus carried 12
residents to Comanche where we
enjoyed refreshments. Linda
Andrews was the driver.
Ten residents enjoyed manicures
given by volunteer Ruby McLearen.
Lois Chapman and Lillian Underhill
were the bingo blackout winners.
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Wilkerson, Gayle E. De Leon Free Press (De Leon, Tex.), Vol. 99, No. 13, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 30, 1984, newspaper, August 30, 1984; De Leon, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1248065/m1/7/: accessed July 4, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Comanche Public Library.