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Submitted: 4/9/21 • Approved: 4/9/21 • Last Updated: 4/12/21 • R406914-G0-S3
Mason
1878 - 1966
*Obituary
EX-FISHER COUNTY FARMER SUCCUMBS
Roby - M. S. Donham, 88, a retired farmer, died at 7 p.m. Friday in Garza Memorial Hospital at Post after a several days' illness. He had been living at Post for about 18 months.
Services will be held at 10 a.m. Monday in the Church of Christ here with Elder Fred Boen, Primitive Baptist minister of Hamlin, Scott Mitchell, minister, and Rev. D. J. Peters, pastor of Friendship Baptist Church near Post, officiating. Burial will be in Roby Cemetery under direction of Weathersbee Funeral Home of Rotan.
Born July 9, 1878 in Tupelo, Miss., he came to Texas with his parents, the late Mr. and Mrs. William Donham, at the age of 12. He married Vergie Funderburk on July 6, 1905. They came to Fisher County from Eastland County the next year. She died on January 26, 1951. He was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church.
Survivors are one daughter, Mrs. Sam Sanders of Post; four sons, Elmer of Rosenberg, Roy of Roby, Luther of Rotan, and Pete of Lafayette, La.; two brothers, Sam of Arizona and Jim of California; 15 grandchildren and 18 great-grandchildren.
From The Abilene (TX) Reporter. Sunday, Sept. 25, 1966
Contributed on 4/9/21 by texasfindagraver
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