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Veteran World War II
Wallace Woody Heathington was the son of Henry Edward and Eliza Jane Smith Heathington. He married Ethel Maidie Coffey on March 6, 1921. Wallace Heathington´s siblings were Edward Monroe, Nellie, Amy, Florence and Lawrence(twins). Wallace´s maternal grandparents were Wallis Dickson Smith and Nancy Catherine Owens of Humphreys County, TN. Wallace´s paternal grandparents were John and Nancy/Mary Seals Heathington of Dickson, TN.
Wallace and Ethel had two children. Jay E. Heathington and Odell Heathington. I don´t know Aunt Ethel´s parents names or grandparents.
Submitted by Shirley Dreaden
RALLS (Special) — Services for Ethel Heathington, 83, of Ralls will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Emma Church of Christ with Loy Hardesty, minister, officiating.
Burial will be in City of Crosbyton Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home.
She died at 5 p.m. Monday in Crosbyton Hospital after a lengthy illness.
She was born in Knoxville, Tenn. She married Wallace W. Heathington on March 6, 1921, in Ralls. She moved to Crosby County in 1915 from Seymour. She was a member of Emma Church of Christ.
Survivors include her husband; a son, Odell of Ralls; a brother, Edgar Coffey of Lubbock; two sisters, Mamie Paschal of Clovis, N.M., and Willie Williams of Lubbock; a grandchild; and two great grandchildren.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, February 1985
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
RALLS (Special) — Services for Wallace Woody Heathington, 82, of Ralls will be at 11 a.m. Thursday in Emma Church of Christ with Dennis May, minister, officiating.
Burial will be in Crosbyton Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home.
He died at 6 p.m. Tuesday in Ralls Nursing Home after a lengthy illness.
He was born in Duster and moved to Ralls in 1919. He married Ethel Maidie Coffey on March 6, 1921, in Ralls. She died Feb. 4, 1985. He was a farmer, a World War II veteran, a member of Masonic Lodge No. 1020 in Crosbyton and a member of the Church of Christ. A son, Jay E., died in 1953.
Survivors include a son, Odell of Ralls; a brother, Bud of Stockton; a granddaughter; and two great grandchildren.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, August 2, 1988
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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