Funeral services were held Sunday afternoon 3 p.m. at the First Christian church for Mrs. Horace Hyatt who died in a Lubbock hospital Thursday morning, September 24, only a few hours after an infant son had been born. Funeral rites were read by Rev. Pierce Burns and Rev. John C. Ramsay.Pallbearers were: Ben Saxon, Neal Chastain, Lee Snodgrass, Bynum Britton, Thurmond Moore and Dee McArthur.
Flower girls were: Mrs. Neal Chastain, Mrs. Bynum Britton, Mrs. Lee Snodgrass, Dorothy Jones, Loretta Beeson and Mrs. John Nugent.
Flossie Marie Hawley was born October 25, 1906 at Commerce, Texas. She came to this county in 1923 and has been well known and loved since that time.
In November 1927 she was married to Horace Hyatt at Spur. To this union were born two children.
Mrs. Hyatt had been affiliated with the Presbyterian church since the age of 16.
Interment was made in the Spur cemetery with Chandler Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Surviving are her husband, Horace Hyatt, one daughter, Patsy Jean; an infant son, William Bradley; her mother, Mrs. G.W. Hash; four brothers, H. H. Hawley of Sweetwater, Russell Hawley of San Angelo, B.F. Hawley of Spur, Ben Hawley of Stanford; one sister, Mrs. Jim Tu
©The Texas Spur, September 1942
Services for Horace Thomas Hyatt, 82, Dickens, were at 2 p.m. March 13, 1990 in the First Christian Church. Former pastor Dr. J.D. Bilbro, Big Springs, officiated, assisted by Dr. Donald Ned Hicks, local pastor.Masonic rites were conducted at graveside in Spur Memorial Cemetery. Campbell Funeral Home, Spur, was in charge of arrangements.
Hyatt died about 3:20 p.m. March 11, 1990 in Methodist Hospital, Lubbock, following a lengthy illness. He was born April 11, 1907 in Dickens. He had resided in Dickens County most of his life and owned and operated Hyatt Grocery, worked for Bryant-Link Co., Godfrey Motor Co., and Clover Farm Grocery.
He served as Dickens County Tax Assessor from 1962 to 1979. He was a 1925 graduate of Spur High School and was a member of the Masonic Lodge for over 50 years. He was a former member of the Spur school board and the Spur Rotary Club.
He married Flossie Hawley, November 21, 1927 in Dickens County. She died on September 24, 1942 and he later married Ruby King in 1948 in Clovis, NM. He was a member of the First Christian Church.
Survivors include his wife, Ruby King Hyatt, Dickens; two sons, Bill Hyatt, Lubbock and Max Hyatt, Brownfield; three daughters, Patsy Jean Smart, Hereford and Susie Laster and Nancy Duvall, both of Dickens; 12 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Pallbearers included Armon Fitzgerald, Eldon Williams, R.J. Bell, William Brown, J.D. McCormick, Charles Daniels and Pat Copeland.
©The Texas Spur, March 15, 1990
Submitted by Lillian Grace Nay
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