Castro County Obituaries

Castro County, Texas Obituaries

BARBER
PLAINVIEW, Texas, July 30,1942 - Funeral services for Mrs. M. F Barber, 87, were conducted Tuesday afternoon at the Lockney Methodist Church. Burial was be side the grave of her husband, who died in 1929. Mrs. Barber, a former Hale County resident, was born in Grayson County. Mr. and Mrs. Barber moved to Throckmorton County in 1875 Mr. Barber assisted in organizing the county, served as the first County Clerk and later was Sheriff. The family moved to Hale County in 1892. Four years later the: moved to Lockney. They went to Brisco County in 1898 and to Castro County in 1900. Mr. Barber was County Judge in Castro for several years. Surviving children are Mrs. Fannie Griffith and Floyd Barber Lockney; Roy Barber, Tulia; Mrs. Eula Merrill, Arlington; Mrs. M L. Coleman, Waco; Mrs. Virgie Cope, Bellflower, Calif., and Frank Barber, Lubbock.

DAVIS
—Sherman. Tex., May 8, a telegram from Hereford, Castro County, announces the death there today of J. R. Davis, for years Treasurer of that county and some years since a resident of Sherman. [May 11, 1900 Dallas Morning News.]

James L Givan
Funeral services for James L Givan 72, of 11549 Cromwell Circle, a retired farmer and stockman who moved from Dim- mitt, Castro County, to Dallas in April. 1960, will be held at 2:30 p.m.. Friday in the East Dallas 'Christian Church, Peak and Junius, with Dr W. A Welsh officiating Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park. Mr. Givan died Wednesday in a Dallas hospital He was a Dimmitt farmer and stockman for 37 years and a member of the American Legion for 20 years. He was born in Hanniball Mo. [November 10, 1961 Dallas Morning News.]

Mrs. M V Nash Dies.
GARLAND. Texas. April 11—Mrs. Marvin V. Nash of Hart, Castro County, who died at Plainview, will be buried here Friday afternoon. Funeral services will be held at the Baptist Church at 3 p. m.. Mrs.. Nash formerly lived here. She was the sister of the late Dr. J. F. Ramsey. [Dallas Morning News April 12, 1935]

Mrs. Lucy C. Taylor
Christian Science services for Mrs. Lucy Caroline Taylor, 83, of 5152 Vandelia, a long-time Dallas seamstress, will be read at 2 p.m. Tuesday in the Marrs- Mundy - Quill Funeral Chapel. Burial will be in Hillcrest Memorial Park. Mrs. Taylor, who owned a seamstress shop here for more than 30 years, died Sunday in Euless. A native of Summerfield. Castro County, Mrs. Taylor had been a Dallas resident for 80 years. [September 26, 1967 Dallas Morning News.]