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Submitted: 12/10/21 • Approved: 12/11/21 • Last Updated: 12/14/21 • R473022-G0-S3
World War I
February 18, 1896-August 8, 1970
*Photo, courtesy of Robert L. Jones
*Information, courtesy of Edith Guynes Stanley
*Obituary
Funeral services for Mr. James Enoch Risner, 74, were held Sunday, August 9, 1970 at the First Baptist Church in Wheeler with Rev. McCormick officiating. Rev. M.B. Smith assisted.
Mr. Risner was born February 18, 1896 in Waynesburgh, Tennessee. He passed away at Parkview Hospital Saturday, August 8, after a lengthy illness of years.
Mr. Risner moved to Wheeler in 1914, moved and returned to Wheeler County in 1929. He moved to Wheeler in 1929 and was custodian at Wheeler County Courthouse from 1932 un1945. ? City Water Superintendent from 1945 until he retired in 1964. He was Adjutant of the Western American Legion in Wheeler for many years. He was a veteran of WW I and a Deacon in the First Baptist Church and also served on the Wheeler School Board.
He is survived by his wife, Hettie Mae of Wheeler; three sons, James "Scotty" of Longview, Adrian R of Wheeler, and Henry F. of Wheeler; two brothers, Hobert M. Risner of Wheeler and Frank of Wheeler; one sister, Fannie Belle Baxter of Ft. Worth; seven grandchildren; two great-grandchildren and twenty-nine nieces and nephews.
He was preceded in death by his mother, father, four sisters and one brother.
Pall bearers were Donald Rives, Roy Ford, Bob Douthit, Albert Marshall, Charlie Waters, Stuart Dixon, Virgil Helton, and M.L. ??rie.
Interment was in Wheeler Cemetery under the direction of Wright Funeral Home.
(Published in The Wheeler Times, Wheeler, Texas, Volume 47, Number 35, Thursday, August 13, 1970, Page 1)
Note: some of the missing information indicated by ?? is because the paper was bound and the copy was caught in the binding on the left.
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Arkansas, County Marriages Index, 1837-1957
Name: J E Risner
Gender: Male
Age: 23
Birth Year: abt 1897
Residence: Mountainburg, Crawford, Arkansas
Spouse's Name: Hettie Dyer
Spouse's Gender: Female
Spouse's Age: 18
Spouse's Residence: Mountainburg, Crawford, Arkansas
Marriage Date: 6 Nov 1920
Marriage License Date: 5 Nov 1920
Marriage County: Crawford
Event Type: Marriage
FHL Film Number: 1028052
Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
Name: James Risner
Death Date: 8 Aug 1970
Death County: Wheeler
Gender: Male
Texas, Death Certificates, 1903-1982
Name: James Enoch Risner
Gender: Male
Race: White
Age: 74
Birth Date: 18 Feb 1896
Birth Place: Waynesborough, Tennessee
Residence: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Death Date: 8 Aug 1970
Death Place: Wheeler, Wheeler, Texas, USA
Father: Madison Logan Risner
Mother: Fannie Adeline Casteel
Social Security Death Index
Name: James Risner
Born: 18 Feb 1896
Died: Aug 1970
Contributed on 12/10/21
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