Emmett M. Gentry, 85, of Hillsboro, Texas, died Saturday, May 01, 2010. Graveside services will be 11 a.m. Monday, May 03, at Hillcrest Garden of Memory near Hillsboro with the Rev. Fred H. Babb officiating.
Emmett Morris was born in Hemphill, Texas, to the late Edgar Morris Gentry and Mary Walton Blankenship Gentry. He was a graduate of East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce, Texas, (now Texas A&M Commerce) with a BBA degree and the University of Houston, with an MBA.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the Southwest Pacific with the 32nd Infantry Division.
Emmett co-founded the Central Texas CPA Firm of Sessions, Gentry and Selby. He was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Hillsboro, the Hillsboro Rotary Club and was a Hillsboro ISD school board member from 1963 to 1974. Emmett and his wife, Mary, loved to travel. They traveled across the USA often with their children and grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by five brothers; and two sisters.
He leaves behind his best friend and wife of 63 years, Mary Glenn Gentry; daughter, Peggy Alspaugh and her husband, Robert, of Carmel, Calif.; sons, Dr. David Gentry, of Fort Worth, and Mark Gentry and his wife, Kim, of Lago Vista, Texas; grandchildren, Zachary, Cassie and Justin, Louis, Katy; great-grandson, Sasha; other relatives and many friends.
Waco Tribune-Herald: 5/03/2010
Emmett Morris was born in Hemphill, Texas, to the late Edgar Morris Gentry and Mary Walton Blankenship Gentry. He was a graduate of East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce, Texas, (now Texas A&M Commerce) with a BBA degree and the University of Houston, with an MBA.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the Southwest Pacific with the 32nd Infantry Division.
Emmett co-founded the Central Texas CPA Firm of Sessions, Gentry and Selby. He was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Hillsboro, the Hillsboro Rotary Club and was a Hillsboro ISD school board member from 1963 to 1974. Emmett and his wife, Mary, loved to travel. They traveled across the USA often with their children and grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by five brothers; and two sisters.
He leaves behind his best friend and wife of 63 years, Mary Glenn Gentry; daughter, Peggy Alspaugh and her husband, Robert, of Carmel, Calif.; sons, Dr. David Gentry, of Fort Worth, and Mark Gentry and his wife, Kim, of Lago Vista, Texas; grandchildren, Zachary, Cassie and Justin, Louis, Katy; great-grandson, Sasha; other relatives and many friends.
Waco Tribune-Herald: 5/03/2010
Emmett M. Gentry, 85, of Hillsboro, Texas, died Saturday, May 01, 2010. Graveside services will be 11 a.m. Monday, May 03, at Hillcrest Garden of Memory near Hillsboro with the Rev. Fred H. Babb officiating.
Emmett Morris was born in Hemphill, Texas, to the late Edgar Morris Gentry and Mary Walton Blankenship Gentry. He was a graduate of East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce, Texas, (now Texas A&M Commerce) with a BBA degree and the University of Houston, with an MBA.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the Southwest Pacific with the 32nd Infantry Division.
Emmett co-founded the Central Texas CPA Firm of Sessions, Gentry and Selby. He was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Hillsboro, the Hillsboro Rotary Club and was a Hillsboro ISD school board member from 1963 to 1974. Emmett and his wife, Mary, loved to travel. They traveled across the USA often with their children and grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by five brothers; and two sisters.
He leaves behind his best friend and wife of 63 years, Mary Glenn Gentry; daughter, Peggy Alspaugh and her husband, Robert, of Carmel, Calif.; sons, Dr. David Gentry, of Fort Worth, and Mark Gentry and his wife, Kim, of Lago Vista, Texas; grandchildren, Zachary, Cassie and Justin, Louis, Katy; great-grandson, Sasha; other relatives and many friends.
Waco Tribune-Herald: 5/03/2010
Emmett Morris was born in Hemphill, Texas, to the late Edgar Morris Gentry and Mary Walton Blankenship Gentry. He was a graduate of East Texas State Teachers College, Commerce, Texas, (now Texas A&M Commerce) with a BBA degree and the University of Houston, with an MBA.
He served in the U.S. Army during World War II in the Southwest Pacific with the 32nd Infantry Division.
Emmett co-founded the Central Texas CPA Firm of Sessions, Gentry and Selby. He was active in the First Presbyterian Church of Hillsboro, the Hillsboro Rotary Club and was a Hillsboro ISD school board member from 1963 to 1974. Emmett and his wife, Mary, loved to travel. They traveled across the USA often with their children and grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by five brothers; and two sisters.
He leaves behind his best friend and wife of 63 years, Mary Glenn Gentry; daughter, Peggy Alspaugh and her husband, Robert, of Carmel, Calif.; sons, Dr. David Gentry, of Fort Worth, and Mark Gentry and his wife, Kim, of Lago Vista, Texas; grandchildren, Zachary, Cassie and Justin, Louis, Katy; great-grandson, Sasha; other relatives and many friends.
Waco Tribune-Herald: 5/03/2010
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