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Submitted: 10/1/19 • Approved: 10/1/19 • Last Updated: 10/4/19 • R207964-G207964-S3
Funeral services for M.C. Legge, 90, of Gainesville, are scheduled for 11:00 a.m. on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at the Geo. J. Carroll & Son Chapel with Rev. Hubert Wright officiating. Interment will follow at Fairview Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 10:00 to 11:00 a.m. prior to the service.
Mr. Legge passed away June 21, 2013 in Gainesville.
Mr. Legge was born in Groesbeck, TX on December 8, 1922. In 1948, following his service in the U.S. Navy during the Second World War, Mr. Legge married Doris Finch in Corsicana, TX. Mr. Legge worked for Bethlehem Steel in Corsicana before he and Mrs. Legge moved to Gainesville in 1959 for work at National Supply. Mr. Legge was a member and long-serving deacon of First Baptist Church. Always known to lend a helping hand, Mr. Legge will be sorely missed by all that knew him.
Survivors include: wife, Doris Legge of Gainesville; niece, Mary Anderson of Denham Spring, LA; nephew, Joe Loofbourrow of Oklahoma City, OK; and many dear friends.
Mr. Legge was preceded in death by his parents, John and Elsie Hughes and two sisters.
Doris Finch Legge, 86, passed away on March 9, 2014. She was born in Chatfield, Texas, on September 30, 1927 to William and Beulah Jeffers Finch. Her father, a cotton farmer, became a widower when Doris was 4. Her sister Estelle, helped to raise Doris. Her other siblings included Frances, James, Katherine, and Boyd. She attended school in Rice, Texas.
Her first job was part-time at J.M. Dyer, where she earned $1 per day, then moved on to a bank, where she earned a bit more. She later landed a job as a secretary at Texas Power and Light in Corsicana. In Corsicana, she met a WWII Navy veteran, M.C. Legge. They met on a double blind date, each was paired with another person. M.C. and Doris hit it off so well that they switched dates. They married on October 16, 1948. Doris later recalled that instead of a wedding reception, they went to New Orleans, LA, where M.C. stopped at a gas station and bought two packages of Fig Newtons and two Dr. Peppers to celebrate the union.
In 1960, M.C. accepted a job at National Supply in Gainesville, Texas. Doris and M.C. became very close to Maureen and Richard Pyle. Friends continued to play a key role in their lives. Doris was known as an exceptional cook and for her manner of making everyone feel welcome. She had an easy laugh, and loved playing practical jokes. She possessed a love of life. Even when she had to move from her home into a nursing facility, she enjoyed everything from visits from friends and family to watching a roadrunner out the window and cheering for the Texas Rangers. Doris was an active member of First Baptist Church since moving to Gainesville in 1960.
Doris was preceded in death by her parents, her husband, M.C. Legge, sisters Frances, Katherine, and Estelle, brothers Boyd and James, and nieces Ethel Swanner and Susan Mears, and nephew James Finch. She is survived by nieces Pam Durio, Ann Burns, and Mary Loofbourrow, nephews Boyd Brown, John Anderson and his wife Debby, John Finch and Joe Loofbourrow. The family wishes to thank her close friends Anna Jo and Doug Selby, Mary Tibbets, and Mary Holland, along with a host of others for their loving care and companionship to Doris. The family also expresses gratitude for the years of care provided by Trice Henry and the staff of Renaissance Care Center.
A funeral service will be held at 11:00 AM Thursday, March 13, 2014 at the Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home Chapel with Rev. Hubert Wright officiating. Burial will follow in the Fairview Cemetery.
Contributed on 10/1/19 by dshw
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