Last Saturday afternoon little Gwendolyn Helen Calvert passed to her reward as a result of a heart attack. She had been very ill during the past ten days. She was the daughter of Mr. And Mrs. W.M. Calvert of the Foreman Chapel community, and was born June 1,1941. The funeral was conducted by Rev. J.T. Campbell, pastor of the Baptist Church, at 4:00 p.m. Sunday Afternoon. Pallbearers were L.L. Delisle, Lon Bass, S.L. Benefield, and I.J. McMahan.Flower bearers were Adell Bass, Barbara Smith, Porgy Kidd, Finnie J. Kidd, Shirley Nell Smith and Glenda Fern Campbell.
The funeral was in charge of Chandler Funeral Home and interment was in Spur cemetery at 5:00 p.m.
Gwendolyn is survived by her brothers, Bille J., Leland and Jerry Calvert; by sisters, Melba J., Nelda, Strelsa, Mary Jo Calvert and Mrs. Mildred Morris of McKinney and Dorothy Kissinger of Brownfield.
©The Texas Spur, October 1943
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay, transcribed by Becky Hodges, August 2004
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