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Lema DILL

Wheeler Cemetery
Wheeler County,
Texas

April 23, 1880-August 13, 1964

In Loving Memory

*Photo/information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley

*Obituary
Funeral Services for Mrs. Lema Cassity Dill were held in the Church of Christ of Wheeler, August 15, 1964 at 3:00 p.m. with Minister Cecil Lanning officiating and the Rev. Harold Perdue assisting.

Mrs. Dill was born in Kentucky on April 23, 1880 and passed away on August 13, 1964 at 4:00 p.m. in Ulyses [sic], Kansas at the age of 84 years, 3 months and 21 days.

She was married to John Thomas Dill at Pella, Texas on August 20, 1896.

A lifetime member of the Church of Christ, she was a housewife during her active life.

In 1920 she came to the Wheeler Community and since the death of her husband, had resided mostly with her daughter in Lubbock County.

Mrs. Dill was preceded in death by her husband, two sons, and two daughters.

Survivors include: two sisters, Mrs. Daisy McFadden of Marietta, Oklahoma and Mrs. Grace Flatt of Muskogee, Oklahoma; two sons, George Carl Dill of Lompic, California and Charles Clarence Dill of Los Angelos [sic], California; three daughters, Mrs. Gladys Layton of Ulyses [sic], Kansas, Mrs. Jean Parks of Idalou, Texas, and Mrs. Ruth Wiley of Wheeler; twenty-two grandchildren and thirty-two great grandchildren.

Pall Bearers were: Grainger McIlhany, Frank Walker, Jim Montgomery, Jack Garrison, Buster Callan and Virgil Helton.

Interment was in Wheeler Cemetery under the direction of Kirk Funeral Home.

(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 41 Number 36, Thursday, August 20, 1964, Page 1)
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U.S., Social Security Death Index, 1935-2014
Name: Lema Dill
Last Residence:
Texas
BORN: 23 Apr 1880
Died: Aug 1964

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Submitted: 10/11/21 • Approved: 10/11/21 • Last Updated: 10/14/21 • R462307-G462307-S3

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