Mrs. Nix died Thursday (Dec 4, 1980) at the home of her sister, Mrs. Maude Bernard.
Mrs. Nix was born Sep. 17, 1894 in the Cottonwood Community of Cherokee County, the 7th of 9 children born to Henry Sylvester & Martha Jane Burnham Gray. She married the late Lewis Lee Nix, Sep 25 1920, in Anderson Co, TX.
She had lived in Palestine twenty years and was a member of Crockett Road Church of Christ.
Survivors include sons, Nolen Nix of Denver, and Norman Nix of Albuquerque; daughter, La Merle McCollum of Missouri; three sisters, Mrs. John Birrel (Maude) Bernard, Mrs. Hattie Gatewood, and Mrs. Bonnie Sides, all of Palestine; a number of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Cecil Price, Tom Dunbar, Danny Trigg, Morris (Jack) Gatewood, A.G. Patterson, and Lowell V. Lewis, Jr.
(Palestine Herald-Press)
Mrs. Nix died Thursday (Dec 4, 1980) at the home of her sister, Mrs. Maude Bernard.
Mrs. Nix was born Sep. 17, 1894 in the Cottonwood Community of Cherokee County, the 7th of 9 children born to Henry Sylvester & Martha Jane Burnham Gray. She married the late Lewis Lee Nix, Sep 25 1920, in Anderson Co, TX.
She had lived in Palestine twenty years and was a member of Crockett Road Church of Christ.
Survivors include sons, Nolen Nix of Denver, and Norman Nix of Albuquerque; daughter, La Merle McCollum of Missouri; three sisters, Mrs. John Birrel (Maude) Bernard, Mrs. Hattie Gatewood, and Mrs. Bonnie Sides, all of Palestine; a number of grandchildren, great-grandchildren, and nieces and nephews.
Pallbearers will be Cecil Price, Tom Dunbar, Danny Trigg, Morris (Jack) Gatewood, A.G. Patterson, and Lowell V. Lewis, Jr.
(Palestine Herald-Press)
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The birth year is wrong on the gravestone. It should be 1894.
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