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Smith, Mrs. J. Morgan (Winnie E.) Smith of 3324 Sunset Blvd., died Thursday in the home of her daughter. Native of Brazoria, had lived in Houston 17 years. Member St. Paul’s Methodist Church. Sadler class of the church. Survivors; Daughters, Mrs. W. L. Cronin, Mrs. James Knotts, both of Houston; son, Cyrus W. Smith, Bay City; six grandchildren; 14 great-grandchildren; sisters, Mrs. Myra Daniesl, Houston, Mrs. Ruby Lide, Galveston. Services 1 p. m. Sunday, Settegast-Kopf chapel. Body to Matagorda for services 4:30 p. m. Sunday, Matagorda Methodist Church, Rev. Roy G. Percival, Rev. Arthur Callandro. Burial in Matagorda. Pallbearers: William L. Cronin, Jr., William J. Gundlack, D. Penrose, Dr. L. L. D. Tuttle, John Hogan Clark, Wayne Gorl, Jack Chambers, Russell Penrose. Honorary pallbearers: C. P. Ela, Capt. Robert G. Bell, Melvin Daniel. Settegast-Kopf Co., 3320 Kirby Dr., JA6-4635.
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Professor Spencer, 91, of Bay City died at the Matagorda House of the Matagorda General Hospital October 20. Survivors include: sons, Booker Spencer, Professor Spencer, Jr., John Spencer and Leon Fletcher; daughter, Mrs. Alta Spencer; sister, Mrs. Genova Matthews; a host of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, nieces, nephews, relatives and friends. Funeral services will be held at the Mother Zion Baptist Church Saturday, October 25 at 2 p. m. with Rev. Samuel Tims officiating. Interment will follow at Matagorda Cemetery. Visitation hours will be Friday afternoon. Pallbearers are: Professor Spender Jr., John Spencer, B. T. Spencer, Robert G. Spencer, Lawrence T. Jones and Richard K. Jones. Honorary pallbearers are: David Spencer, Isaac Spencer and Enoch Casey. Penn Funeral Home is in charge of the arrangements. Daily Tribune, October 24, 1980
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Bill Stallings, 74, of Matagorda died July 7, 2002 at Gulf Coast
Medical Center in Wharton.
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Funeral services were held Sunday at Bay City Funeral Home for J. H. “Johnnie” Stallings, 45, of Matagorda, who died at his home Friday. He had been a Matagorda resident for 24 years and was a member of the Baptist church there. Survivors include his widow Mrs. Mary Stallings; one daughter, Mary Jane Hamill of Duncanville; two sons, William Henry and John Marvin of Matagorda; mother, Mrs. Addie Margaret Stallings of George West, and three brothers, Bill of Palestine, Earl of Beaumont, and Jeff of Alice. Rev. F. R. Weedon, minister of Bay City First Baptist Church, officiated at the rites and burial was in Matagorda Cemetery. Pallbearers were Gene Lawhon, Joe Smith, Clancy Baxter, Alfred Lee Cook, Lamar Holloman and Jimmy Yeamans. Daily Tribune, April 16, 1963
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Funeral services for Fred C. Stanley, 59, of Bay City will be held at 2 p. m. Wednesday, July 14, 1999, at First United Methodist Church in Bay City. Burial will be held at Matagorda Cemetery. Visitation will be Wednesday at Taylor Brothers Funeral Home. Mr. Stanley died Monday, July 12 at his home in Bay City after a long fight with cancer. He was born July 18, 1939 in Galveston to O. B. Stanley and the late Anna Beth Johnson Stanley. He was a lifelong resident of Bay City and an active member of the community. After receiving his business degree from Texas Christian University, he became president of Stanley Stores from 1962 until his death. He served on numerous boards of directors of grocery and banking related businesses. He was elected to the Bay City School Board and was a two-time president of the Bay City Lions Club. He was a member of Phi-Kappa Sigma Fraternity and First United Methodist Church. He was a wonderful husband and devoted father and grandfather. He will be greatly missed by his family and many friends. Mr. Stanley is survived by Linda Archer Stanley, his wife of 14 years; father O. B. Stanley; brother, Steven both of Bay City; son Bart Stanley and wife Linda of El Campo; daughter Susan Stanley Faciane and husband Kevin of Ft. Worth; two step sons, Shane Ganske and wife Vikki of Webster and Ty Ganske and wife Rhonda of Austin; and grandchildren, Samantha, Sommer, and Sawyer Stanley and Kristin and Courtney Faciane. He was preceded in death by his other Anna Beth Stanley and his first wife, Pamela Stanley. Pallbearers will be Charles Allison, Bill Barton, Jim LeFebvre, Sam Maglitto, Gary Trippie, and Greg Westmoreland. Honorary pallbearers will be Tommy Fields, Bruce Grover, E. M. Huitt and Danny Janecka. In lieu of flowers, the family requests those desiring memorial contributions make them to the American Cancer Society, the Juvenile Diabetes Association, or the Bay City Public Library. Arrangements are with Taylor Bros. Funeral Home.
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J. C. Stanley, 80, of Bay City died at his residence October 8,
2003. He was born August 8, 1923 in McGregory, Texas to the late
Joseph Carlton and Pearl Inez Wicker Stanley. Mr. Stanley was a
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Mrs. M. Stanley Mrs. Myrtle Stanley of Wadsworth passed away in the Rugeley-Blasingame Hospital in Wharton Sunday night. Funeral services were set for 4 p. m. today at the Baptist Church in Wadsworth with the Rev. R. E. Black officiating. Survivors include her husband, Willie Stanley; four children, Sammy Ray, Billy Mack, Hilda Kay and Sara Mae, all of Wadsworth; four sisters, Mrs. Lillian Franklin, Wadsworth; Mrs. Foy Thames, Fort Worth; Mrs. Georgia Nell Durham, Paris, and Mrs. Saberia Cox, Houston; two brothers, Lee H. Monroe of Dallas; her mother, Mrs. Vollie Monroe of Bogata and her father, W. E. Monroe of Texas City. Interment will be in the Matagorda Cemetery with the Chambers Funeral Home of Wharton in charge. Matagorda County Tribune, February 26, 1959
[Burial Matagorda Cemetery, Matagorda,
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