To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Texas Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Texas, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 9/12/20 • Approved: 9/21/20 • Last Updated: 9/24/20 • R351581-G351580-S3
February 23, 1877 - October 1, 1944, Sharp, Milam County, Texas
*Obituary
MRS. MARY P. PERSKY IS BURIED AT SHARP
Funeral services were held at 3 p. m. Monday, October 2, 1944, for Mrs. Mary Pauline Persky, 67, from the family residence at Sharp with Rev. John C. Solomon, Pastor First Presbyterian church in Cameron, officiating.
Mrs. Persky died at the family residence near Sharp at 1 a. m. Sunday, October 1, 1944, following a brief illness. The Green Funeral Home in Cameron directed arrangements and interment was made in the Sharp Cemetery. Pall bearers were nephews of deceased.
Surviving are her husband, John Persky, two daughters, Mrs. Dan Henson and Mrs. Sidney Frazier of Buckholts; one son John Lee Presky of Buckholts; and five grand sons. One brother Max Rinn of Sharp and one sister, Mrs. Otto Eckerman of Holland, also survive.
The Cameron Herald(Cameron, Texas), 05 Oct 1944, Thu, Page 1
Family Members
Parents
Jacob Rinn
1838–1913
Sophie T C Rinn
1846–1903
Spouse
John Persky
1878–1973 (m. 1899)
Siblings
Henriette Rinn Eckermann
1869–1952
Ernest John Rinn
1872–1939
Jacob Rinn
1874–1884
Albert Ernest Rinn
1879–1942
Max Heinrich Rinn
1885–1958
Children
Robert J.W. Persky
1900–1916
Ella M Persky Frazer
1904–1992
Laura L. Persky Henson
1908–2004
Photo courtesy of: Karen Neal Morey
Contributed on 9/12/20 by lynst.peters62
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 351581