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: 6/6/21 • Approved: 6/6/21 • Last Updated: 6/9/21 • R425178-G425177-S3
April 23, 1925 - May 17, 2002
*Obituary
Services for Billie Bownds, 77, of Ralls will be at 2 p.m. Sunday at First Baptist Church in Ralls with the Rev. Randy Bartley officiating.
Burial will be in Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Adams Funeral Home of Ralls.
She died Friday, May 17, 2002.
She was born April 23, 1925, in Silver Valley and married Sammie Bownds on Feb. 21, 1947, in Ralls. She was a member of First Baptist Church in Ralls, where she had been a Sunday school teacher for 30 years.
She was a 1944 graduate of Lorenzo High School and served as a Lorenzo 4-H leader. She had worked at Ralls Elementary School cafeteria and had been a school bus driver. She moved to the Ralls and Lorenzo area in 1941 from Coleman.
Survivors include her husband; four sons, Lester of Lorenzo, Sammy Joe of Plainview, Ray Gene of Alvin and Kenneth of Garland; and eight grandchildren.
Contributed on 6/6/21 by texasfindagraver
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 425178