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Submitted: 9/7/20 • Approved: 10/17/20 • Last Updated: 10/20/20 • R350550-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
CAR CRASHES INTO BUS NEAR DALLAS SATURDAY
Mrs. Walter H. Lucas, 48, of Cameron, was killed instantly and her husband, Walter H. Lucas, was seriously injured at 10:30 p. m. Saturday, April 21, 1945, on Highway 77 five miles east of Dallas.
Mr. Lucas was taken immediately to a Dallas hospital for treatment and was due to return to Cameron sometime Monday. The body of Mrs. Lucas was returned here and is at the Marek - Burns Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements were incomplete, awaiting the arrival here of Mr. Lucas and the children.
According to information received by The Herald the crash occured near the airport on Highway 77 five miles from Dallas. They were on their way to the city to spend the weekend. Rain was falling and ahead of their car was a Greyhound bus which according to information, stopped suddenly and the Lucas car crashed into the rear of the bus.
No other details were available. Mr. Lucas had been with the McLane Company, wholesale grocers in Cameron for many years.
Before their marriage Mrs. Lucas was the former Miss Ida Mae Price. Surviving are the following children: Mrs. Edith Harmon of Texas City; Dorothy Lucas, Cameron; Sgt. A. W. Lucas,United States Army, Dallas; Pvt. Walter Lucas, Jr., now overseas with the army. Two brothers survive as follows: Shep Price and Arvie Price, Cameron; three sisters, Mrs. Bessie Sweet, Jones Prarie; Mrs. Iris Whitley of Cameron and Mrs. Odessa Tindall of Cameron.
Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Price, parents of Mrs. Lucas, survive and also live in Cameron. One grand daughter, Kay Harmon, lives in Texas City.
Funeral arrangements were to be announced later in the day with interment to be made in Cameron with the Marek - Burns Funeral Home directing arrangements.
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
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Contributed on 9/7/20 by lynst.peters62
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