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Memorial services for Joe S. Draper, 82, a longtime Spur resident, will be at 3:30 p.m. today (Thursday) in the First United Methodist Church in Spur. The Rev. Archie Echols, pastor, and the Rev. Noris Taylor, pastor of First Baptist Church in Spur, will officiate.Interment is to be made in Spur Cemetery, under direction of Campbell Funeral Home.
Mr. Draper was the father of Mrs. Wilburn Ball and the grandfather of Rickey Ball.
He succumbed at 1:45 a.m. Monday [July 12] in Crosbyton Clinic Hospital, where he had been a patient 19 days. A retired farmer, he had been in failing health since undergoing surgery last year.
Joe S. Draper was born May 13, 1895 in Alabama and had been a Dickens County resident since 1910. He and the former Erna Mae Leach were married Dec. 21, 1913 in Dickens. He was a member of the Methodist Church.
Survivors include his wife; two daughters, Mrs. Evelyn Copeland and Mrs. Ila Ruth Ball, both of Spur; two sons, Denton Draper of Rogers, Ark., and J. C. Draper of Spur; one brother, Ellis Draper of Clyde; seven grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; and two great great grandchildren.
©Crosbyton Review, July 14, 1977
Services for Mrs. Erna Mae Draper, 92, were at 3 p.m. September 3, 1990 in the First United Methodist church with Rev. John Dorn officiating. Assisting were Dr. Genoa Goad, pastor of the First Baptist Church and Rev. Norris Taylor, former Baptist pastor here now living in Idalou.Burial was in Spur Memorial Cemetery with Campbell Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Draper died September 1st at Methodist Hospital, Lubbock, following a lengthy illness. A homemaker, she was born in Moulton, TX on April 14, 1898. She had been a resident of Dickens County most of her life.
She married Joe S. Draper on December 21, 1913 in Dickens. He died July 12, 1977. She was a member of the Methodist Church.
She is survived by two sons, J.C. Draper, Spur and Denton Draper, Rogers, AR; two daughters, Evelyn Copeland and Ila Ruth Ball, both of Spur; two sisters, Mrs. Lloyd Hindman, Spur and Mrs. Irene Sprayberry, CA; seven grandchildren; fourteen great grandchildren and six great-great-grandchildren.
Pallbearers were R. J. Bell, Benny Robertson, John F. Moore, Billy Carlisle, Vernon Wright and Travis Hoover.
©The Texas Spur, September 1990
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay, tanscribed by Kay Laster
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