Funeral services for Obani Sellers, 76, retired merchant who had lived in Ennis for thirty-six years, will be held at Keever Chapel here at 10 a. m. Friday.
The Rev. Cecil Ellis will officiate and burial will be in Myrtle Cemetery, with the Ennis Masonic Lodge in charge of graveside rites.
Sellers died Wednesday night at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Dallas. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War.
A native of Oak Grove, Ellis County, he was married in 1903 to Miss Hallie Bush of Ennis.
Sellers was a member of the Woodmen of the World, the Ennis Masonic Lodge, the Commandery at Corsicana, and Hella Temple and the Scottish Rite organization in Dallas.
Surviving are his wife and a half sister, Mrs. George T. Doman of Bay City.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
07-24-1953
D. cert: parents, Teola Sellers, Sarah Parks
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WORLD WAR I DRAFT REGISTRATION CARD:
He signed a World War I draft registration card September 12, 1918 at Ennis, Ellis County, Texas giving his date of birth as October 11, 1876. Home address: Ennis, Texas. Description: married, age 42, medium height, stout build, brown eyes, black hair slightly gray. Occupation: clerk in store at Oak Grove, Texas. Employer's name: Fred Sellers. Nearest relative: Mrs. Hallie Sellers, Ennis, Texas.
Transcribed by Carol Moore
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Funeral services for Obani Sellers, 76, retired merchant who had lived in Ennis for thirty-six years, will be held at Keever Chapel here at 10 a. m. Friday.
The Rev. Cecil Ellis will officiate and burial will be in Myrtle Cemetery, with the Ennis Masonic Lodge in charge of graveside rites.
Sellers died Wednesday night at the Veterans Administration Hospital in Dallas. He was a veteran of the Spanish-American War.
A native of Oak Grove, Ellis County, he was married in 1903 to Miss Hallie Bush of Ennis.
Sellers was a member of the Woodmen of the World, the Ennis Masonic Lodge, the Commandery at Corsicana, and Hella Temple and the Scottish Rite organization in Dallas.
Surviving are his wife and a half sister, Mrs. George T. Doman of Bay City.
Dallas Morning News
Transcribed by Carol Moore
07-24-1953
D. cert: parents, Teola Sellers, Sarah Parks
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WORLD WAR I DRAFT REGISTRATION CARD:
He signed a World War I draft registration card September 12, 1918 at Ennis, Ellis County, Texas giving his date of birth as October 11, 1876. Home address: Ennis, Texas. Description: married, age 42, medium height, stout build, brown eyes, black hair slightly gray. Occupation: clerk in store at Oak Grove, Texas. Employer's name: Fred Sellers. Nearest relative: Mrs. Hallie Sellers, Ennis, Texas.
Transcribed by Carol Moore
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