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Submitted: 9/7/20 • Approved: 10/17/20 • Last Updated: 10/20/20 • R350549-G350549-S3
May 6, 1896 - April 21, 1945
*OBITUARY
MRS. WALTER H. LUCAS IS BURIED IN CAMERON
Funeral services for Mrs. Walter H. Lucas were held at 3 p. m. Tuesday, April 24, 1945. at First Baptist Church in Cameron, with Rev. C. W. Sanders, pastor, conducting.
Interment was made in Oak Hill Cemetery with the Marek - Burns Funeral Home directing arrangements.
Mrs. Lucas was instantly killed around 10 p. m. Saturday, April 21, 1945, on highway 77 five miles east of Dallas when the car in which she and her husband Walter H. Lucas were riding crashed into the rear of a bus which had stopped suddenly in a rain storm. They were on their was to Dallas to visit with their son, Sgt. A. W. Lucas, United States Army who is stationed there.
Mr. Lucas was seriously injured and taken to a Dallas hospital but was returned to Cameron Monday and was able to attend the funeral.
Surviving in the immediate family are her husband, Walter H. Lucas and the following children: Mrs. Edith Harmon of Texas City; Dorothy Lucas of Cameron, Sgt. A. W. Lucas, Dallas, and Pvt. Walter Lucas, now with the armed forces overseas.
The Cameron Herald(Cameron, Texas), 26 Apr 1945, Thu, Page 6
Family Members
Parents
Andrew Jackson Price
1866–1951
Effie Mae Hendrix Price
1880–1965
Spouse
Walter H Lucas
1890–1984
Siblings
Shepard R Price
1894–1963
Aubrey Ray Price
1898–1963
Bessie C Sweet
1903–1957
Iris I Price Whitley
1905–1974
Children
Frances Edith Lucas
1915–2000
Andrew William Lucas
1918–1983
Dorothy Louise Lucas Lamey
1928–2008
Photo courtesy of: Holly Bonorden Jentsch
Contributed on 9/7/20 by lynst.peters62
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