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Submitted: 6/27/20 • Approved: 7/1/20 • Last Updated: 7/4/20 • R328851-G328851-S3
December 11, 1860, Arkansas - August 1, 1929, Cameron, Milam County, Texas
MRS. ABBIE REESE, 69 BURIED IN CAMERON
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WIFE OF LATE DR. J. C. REESE DIES IN HOSPITAL HERE AUGUST 1, 1929.
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Funeral services for Mrs. Abbie Reese, age 69, wife of the late Dr. J. C. Reese, a pioneer citizen of Cameron, were held Saturday afternoon at four o'clock at the Methodist church. Rev. R. S. Marshall of Bryan, former pastor of Mrs. Reese who also officiated at the funeral of her husband, was assisted in the service by Rev. P. T. Ramsey of the First Methodist church here.
With Mrs. C. J. Clinton at the organ, music was furnished by a choir of voices from the Methodist church. Special music consisted of a make quartette, 'Somewhere, 'by Messrs. W. A. Bonds, Dan Tyson, Bush Stafford and Andrew Freeman.
Pall bearers were Rush Stafford, Dan Tyson, Walter Sharpe, B. F. Bonds, E. O. Schiller and Johnnie Bryan. Honorary pall bearers were Judge Jeff Kemp, O. L. Kidd, Robert Todd, W. H. Triggs, J. H. DuBois, Graham Gillis, Judge John Watson, R. B. Rylander, S. W. Cheeves, Arthur Baskin, W. A. Bonds and C. W. Lawrence.
Rev. Ramsey read the Methodist service for the burying of the dead and then offerd a prayer. Rev. Marshall, as a former pastor, was chosen to speak the life of the deceased and to comfort sorrowing relatives. He spoke of having known both Dr. and Mrs. Reese and of their having been active in church work in their younger days. Both of them were choir members. He declared that the final test of Christian faith is Christian life, and cited the fact that although Dr. and Mrs. Reese had no children of their own, they always had young people in their home. They reared from childhood their niece, Mrs. Jessie Lee Harvey, who died a few years ago, and at her death Mrs. Reese took her children, Abbie Reese and Lee Batte, and kept them until about six weeks ago, when they went to Nashville, Tenn., to live with their father. Rev. Marshall said that her life had been spent in love, devotion and care for others.
Mrs. Reese died at eleven o'clock in the evening, August 1, at the Cameron Hospital. Some few months ago she underwent an operation, from which she fully recovered, but a second one in so short a time and at her advanced age proved fatal. She born in Arkansas on December 11, 1860, and moved to Milam County at an early age. She was married to Dr. Reese on March 20, 1881, and her husband died September 11, 1925. She is survived by a sister, Mrs. Jessie Winn of Nacogdoches; a brother, W. W. Womack of Woodward, Okla.; and a number of nieces and nephews.
The Cameron Herald(Cameron, Texas), 08 Aug 1829, Thu, Page 2
Family Members
Parents
John Crosley Womack
1827–1899
Sarah Jane Williamson Womack
1834–1918
Spouse
Jasper Clinton Reese
1855–1925
Siblings
John David Womack
1862–1916
Jessie Womack Winn
1868–1948
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