John H. Griffin Dies In Loraine
Ill for several years, John H. Griffin, 74, father of O. I. Griffin, local telephone owner and president of the Loraine chamber of commerce, died this morning. Funeral arrangements were incomplete, but rites probably will be held Sunday afternoon, with burial in a local cemetery.
Mr. Griffin was born in Tallapoosa county, Alabama. He came to Texas in 1906. Survivors are his wife; one sister, Mrs. Josie Puller of Roanoke, Ala.; two sons, W. E. Griffin, Miami, Florida, and O. I. Griffin, Loraine; two daughters, Mrs. Lois Caswell, Hermleigh, and Mrs. Eunice Lee, Loraine
[Abilene Reporter News, April 24, 1937, transcribed by, Amanda Jowers]

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Obit of Texas Ranger, Dick Ware

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Name of Deceased: Mary Ray Hargrove Hood

County Name: Mitchell County

State: TX

Newspaper: Colorado Record

Date: Feb 1929

Obit: Death Claimed Mrs. J. M. Hood Last Thursday

Resident of  this county for 30 years succumbs

Mrs. J. M. Hood, 36, for the greater part of her life was a resident of Mitchell County, died in an Abilene sanitarium last Thursday night after an illness of several weeks' duration. Burial was in Sapde Friday afternnon, the services being conducted by Rev. F. H. Ford and Rev. W. C. Hinds.

Mrs. Hood, who was Mary Ray Hargrove before her marriage in June 1908, came to Mitchell County with her parents some 30 years ago, and since that time has made her home in the Spade Community, where she went to school.

Besides her husband, five children survived her, there were James, Jr., Evelyn, Addie Lou, Ruth, and Russell. She is also survived by her mother, Mrs. R. F. Hargrove of Colorado [City]; Miss Pauline Hargrove, teacher at Spade, and Miss Ruth Hargrove; four brothers, Garrard W., with the Navy in Hampton Roads, VA; R. P. Hargrove of Cholk; Ross Hargrove of Spade, Paul Hargrove of Colorado [City]; and Mrs. Nellie Grace Eudy of Colorado, Texas.
(Submitters Name: Patty Ewing Robichaud)
 

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