Funeral services were held at 3:00 Sunday afternoon from the Wessendorff Funeral Home for Fred Louis Addicks, 74, who passed away Friday morning in a convalescent home in Houston. Mr. Addicks had been in ill health for six years, had been confined to bed at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. H. Clay in Rosenberg, for the past four months.
Mr. Addicks was born February 28, 1870, at Addicks, Texas. His father died when Mr. Addicks was a small boy and little is known about the family, but his mother was Mrs. Amelia Addicks.
He was united in marriage when a young man to Miss Betty Lee Furlow of Richmond. They lived four miles north of Sugar Land until 1902, when they moved to Houston. In 1909 they returned to Fort Bend County and settled near Foster, where Mr. Addicks remained until some months before his death. He was engaged in farming.
The deceased is survived by one daughter, Miss Eula Margaret Addicks of Houston; four sons, Reginald Lee of Las Vegas, Nevada; Fred Louis, Jr. of Big Lake, Texas; Clifton Eugene, chief signalman in the Navy, based at San Francisco, Calif.; and John T., who is a seaman first class, stationed at Corpus Christi; two sisters, Mrs. J. H. Clay of Rosenberg, and Mrs. Annie Wohlt of Houston, and two grandchildren.
Funeral services were held at 3:00 Sunday afternoon from the Wessendorff Funeral Home for Fred Louis Addicks, 74, who passed away Friday morning in a convalescent home in Houston. Mr. Addicks had been in ill health for six years, had been confined to bed at the home of his sister, Mrs. J. H. Clay in Rosenberg, for the past four months.
Mr. Addicks was born February 28, 1870, at Addicks, Texas. His father died when Mr. Addicks was a small boy and little is known about the family, but his mother was Mrs. Amelia Addicks.
He was united in marriage when a young man to Miss Betty Lee Furlow of Richmond. They lived four miles north of Sugar Land until 1902, when they moved to Houston. In 1909 they returned to Fort Bend County and settled near Foster, where Mr. Addicks remained until some months before his death. He was engaged in farming.
The deceased is survived by one daughter, Miss Eula Margaret Addicks of Houston; four sons, Reginald Lee of Las Vegas, Nevada; Fred Louis, Jr. of Big Lake, Texas; Clifton Eugene, chief signalman in the Navy, based at San Francisco, Calif.; and John T., who is a seaman first class, stationed at Corpus Christi; two sisters, Mrs. J. H. Clay of Rosenberg, and Mrs. Annie Wohlt of Houston, and two grandchildren.
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