Mrs. Black passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006, in Brownwood.
Anna Sue Tate Black was born to Eula Lee Elizabeth Smith and Thomas Lake Tate on April 13, 1918, in Llano, and they soon moved to Brown County, where she lived a major part of her life. She graduated from Brownwood High School and Howard Payne College. She spent several years in the public schools as classroom teacher at Rock Springs; Vanderbilt; Sioux Falls, S.D.; May; Comanche; Zephyr; and Brownwood, in music, English, and substitute teaching.
She married her principal, Harley Haynes Black, on March 2, 1946.
She has been a longtime member of First Baptist Church, Brownwood, where she was active in WMU, church choirs, library work, and as Sunday school teacher. She was active in Brownwood, where she was City PTA President, Women's Federation President, City Council member, Schubert Music Club member and president, and an avid campaign manager for her husband's county school superintendent career for 12 years.
She and her two sisters sang all over the state of Texas from the time they were young. They were known as the HPC trio, and sang at numerous social events and churches entertaining as they went throughout the state.
She is survived by her daughters, Pat Locks and Barbara Rodgers; son-in-law Royce Rodgers; two sisters, Eddie Lake Bunton and Aleene Early; sister-in-law, Norma Riker; three grandchildren, Clint Locks, Regina Jackson and Robert Rodgers; four great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Eula and T.L. Tate, and her husband, Harley Haynes Black.
Obituary from the Brownwood Bulletin.
Anna Sue Tate Black was born to Eula Lee Elizabeth Smith and Thomas Lake Tate on April 13, 1918, in Llano, and they soon moved to Brown County, where she lived a major part of her life. She graduated from Brownwood High School and Howard Payne College. She spent several years in the public schools as classroom teacher at Rock Springs; Vanderbilt; Sioux Falls, S.D.; May; Comanche; Zephyr; and Brownwood, in music, English, and substitute teaching.
She married her principal, Harley Haynes Black, on March 2, 1946.
She has been a longtime member of First Baptist Church, Brownwood, where she was active in WMU, church choirs, library work, and as Sunday school teacher. She was active in Brownwood, where she was City PTA President, Women's Federation President, City Council member, Schubert Music Club member and president, and an avid campaign manager for her husband's county school superintendent career for 12 years.
She and her two sisters sang all over the state of Texas from the time they were young. They were known as the HPC trio, and sang at numerous social events and churches entertaining as they went throughout the state.
She is survived by her daughters, Pat Locks and Barbara Rodgers; son-in-law Royce Rodgers; two sisters, Eddie Lake Bunton and Aleene Early; sister-in-law, Norma Riker; three grandchildren, Clint Locks, Regina Jackson and Robert Rodgers; four great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Eula and T.L. Tate, and her husband, Harley Haynes Black.
Obituary from the Brownwood Bulletin.
Mrs. Black passed away on Wednesday, Dec. 6, 2006, in Brownwood.
Anna Sue Tate Black was born to Eula Lee Elizabeth Smith and Thomas Lake Tate on April 13, 1918, in Llano, and they soon moved to Brown County, where she lived a major part of her life. She graduated from Brownwood High School and Howard Payne College. She spent several years in the public schools as classroom teacher at Rock Springs; Vanderbilt; Sioux Falls, S.D.; May; Comanche; Zephyr; and Brownwood, in music, English, and substitute teaching.
She married her principal, Harley Haynes Black, on March 2, 1946.
She has been a longtime member of First Baptist Church, Brownwood, where she was active in WMU, church choirs, library work, and as Sunday school teacher. She was active in Brownwood, where she was City PTA President, Women's Federation President, City Council member, Schubert Music Club member and president, and an avid campaign manager for her husband's county school superintendent career for 12 years.
She and her two sisters sang all over the state of Texas from the time they were young. They were known as the HPC trio, and sang at numerous social events and churches entertaining as they went throughout the state.
She is survived by her daughters, Pat Locks and Barbara Rodgers; son-in-law Royce Rodgers; two sisters, Eddie Lake Bunton and Aleene Early; sister-in-law, Norma Riker; three grandchildren, Clint Locks, Regina Jackson and Robert Rodgers; four great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Eula and T.L. Tate, and her husband, Harley Haynes Black.
Obituary from the Brownwood Bulletin.
Anna Sue Tate Black was born to Eula Lee Elizabeth Smith and Thomas Lake Tate on April 13, 1918, in Llano, and they soon moved to Brown County, where she lived a major part of her life. She graduated from Brownwood High School and Howard Payne College. She spent several years in the public schools as classroom teacher at Rock Springs; Vanderbilt; Sioux Falls, S.D.; May; Comanche; Zephyr; and Brownwood, in music, English, and substitute teaching.
She married her principal, Harley Haynes Black, on March 2, 1946.
She has been a longtime member of First Baptist Church, Brownwood, where she was active in WMU, church choirs, library work, and as Sunday school teacher. She was active in Brownwood, where she was City PTA President, Women's Federation President, City Council member, Schubert Music Club member and president, and an avid campaign manager for her husband's county school superintendent career for 12 years.
She and her two sisters sang all over the state of Texas from the time they were young. They were known as the HPC trio, and sang at numerous social events and churches entertaining as they went throughout the state.
She is survived by her daughters, Pat Locks and Barbara Rodgers; son-in-law Royce Rodgers; two sisters, Eddie Lake Bunton and Aleene Early; sister-in-law, Norma Riker; three grandchildren, Clint Locks, Regina Jackson and Robert Rodgers; four great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews.
She was preceded in death by her parents, Eula and T.L. Tate, and her husband, Harley Haynes Black.
Obituary from the Brownwood Bulletin.
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