Parker County Texas Obituaries

Dorothy Lou Dodd
-- was born 27 Dec 1922, in Weatherford, Parker County, Texas; died 1 Jul 1991, in Fort Worth, Tarrant County, Texas, and was buried 3 Jul 1991, in Greenwood Memory Park, Fort Worth, Texas.

Dorothy Lee Robnett, a sales representative for Greenwood Mount Olivet Funeral Homes, died Monday at her Fort Worth Home she was 68. Funeral Services will be at 2pm Wednesday at Greenwood Funeral Home. Burial will be in Greenwood Memorial Park. Mrs Robnett was born in Weatherford and had lived in Fort Worth most of her life. She also had been employed by Armour and Co. for several years and was a baby photographer for Harris Methodist Fort Worth. Survivors, all of Fort Worth. Son, Jodie W. Robnett; daughter Janice A. Jones; sister, Eloise Campbell, four Grandchildren and Three great Grandchildren. Dorothy Lee Robnett, left this life on July 1, 1991 at the age of 68. Her gentle loving spirit touched the lives of all her family and friends who knew her. Especially her daughter Janice A. Jones; son Jodie W. Robnett, born 26 Jul 1958. Robnett; granddaughters Dana R. Fagg, Donna A Sladovnik,. Her deep faith in God and the way she cared for others were gifts of the heart that she gave to each of us. She attended North Side High and Brantly Draughon Business College. She worked for 39 years at Armour and Co., Harris Hospital and Greenwood and Mount Olivet Cemetery. She devoted her life caring for her children and loving her grandchildren. Services 2 p.m. Wednesday. Greenwood Chapel. Interment Greenwood Memorial Park Arrangements Greenwood 3100 White Settlement at University Drive 336 0584.

Mary Henderson Lafferty Godfrey
born Arkansas died in Parker Co. TX. of Breast Cancer.
Aunt Mary Godfrey was born in Independence County, Arkansas, February 9, 1928. She was converted and joined the Church at the age of seven. She came to Parker County in December 1858, and was married to John W. Godrey August 21, 1860. In those pioneer days the Indians made many raids in the county. When the men were away the women looked to Aunt Mary for counsel and leadership. At one time the women were in her home. Somehow they did not feel safe. So they left the house and hid out. It was a good thing they did, for the house was burned to the ground. Her religion was a source of comfort in those days. She and Brother Godfrey were the preachers' friends and a support for the Church. He died August 5, 1897. She survived him fifteen years and died January 3, 1913. She had no children, but many raised up and called her Blessed. She gave seventy-eight years to the Church. We laid her to rest in the cemetery near Godrey Chapel January 3, 1913. She leaves one brother and a sister, 83 years of age to mourn her departure and many friends. PRESTON BROXTON. (from "Creswell, Cresswell, Criswell- Moving West" by Harold Wayne and Mary (Byrd) Criswell of Plano, Texas. submitted by Mary Josefina Lafferty Wilson)

Mrs. Daniel Lassater

WEATHERFORD, TEXAS, Feb 6- Mrs. Daniel Lassater, an aged lady of about 70 years, died Saturday at her home, near Poolwille, in this county [Dallas Morning News, 7 Feb 1899, submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]

Mrs. Tulloh
WEATHERFORD, TEXAS, Aug 21 - News reached here today of the death of Mrs. Tulloh wife of A. Tulloh, both of whom came to Parker County and settled among the very earliest settlers of the county. Mrs. Tulloh was well known, as she has for the past forty years been proprietress of the hotel in Whitt, known as the "Halfway House". She was very old and died Saturday night [Dallas Morning News, 25 Aug 1899, submitted by Barbara Ziegenmeyer]

B.L. Shirley
Parker County Patriarch, 114, Dies at Home in Springtown.

WEATHERFORD, Texas, Feb. 17 -- B. L. (Black) Shirley, 114, died at his home in Springtown, eighteen miles north of here, early Friday morning. His age was well authenticated. He served in the Union Army from Hamilton County, Tennessee, during the Civil War. Some of Mr. Shirley's friends claim he was the oldest man in Texas.
He came to Texas about 1880 and had lived at Springtown since. His oldest daughter, Mrs. Sadie Fitts of Burneyville, Ok, is 87, and his youngest, Mrs. W. W. Waters of Springtown, 22. His other surviving children are Mrs. Mary Freely and Mrs. Kitty Fitts of Electra, Mrs. W. H. Casey of Paradise, J. C. and F. L. Shirley of Springtown.
He was married three times. Funeral services will be held Saturday at 2 p. m. at Springtown. Burial will be in Opal Cemetery.

Mr. Shirley was born in Sequatchie Valley in East Tennessee, and was the youngest of a family of fifteen children. He grew to manhood in the Tennessee mountains, married the first time and had five children when the Civil War opened. Three years after the war ended, his wife died, and ten years later the family emigrated to Texas, Mr. Shirley having married again. They settled in Parker County, where they have since resided, and where Mr. Shirley found his third wife, following the death of the second. Mr. Shirley was active and rode horseback at 80, but had spent most of his last two years taking things easy.

[18 Feb 1933, Dallas Morning News - KT - Sub by FoFG]