Funeral services wereheld Tuesday afternoon at 3 p.m. in the Spur Church of Christ for Ivey Julius McMahan. Mr. McMahan, 73, died Sunday in Spur Memorial Hospital following a lengthy illness. Vernon Williams, local minister, officiated at the service.Mr. McMahan was born in Harrison, Arkansas in 1888. He first came to Texas in 1903, and made his was to Dickens County in 1921. He resided in the Dry Lake Community. He married the former Mary Ann DeLisle in 1917, and they made their first home in Woodvine, TX. Mr.McMahan owned a farm in the Dry Lake Community.
Survivors include his wife, one daughter, Mrs. Virgie Powell, Spur, and one son, Bill McMahan, Sacramento, CA. Two brothers also survive. They are Coy McMahan, Levelland, and Charley McMahan, Lubbock.
Pallbearers were nephews. Interment was in Spur Cemetery.
©The Texas Spur, September 21, 1961
Funeral services were held Sunday at 4 p.m. in the Spur Church of Christ for Mrs. Mary A. McMahan, 81, Gary Williams, officiating, assisted by Rev. H.T. Harris, Childress.Mrs. McMahan died Sept. 19. She was born in Arkansas in 1889 and came to Dickens County in 1921. She was a member of the Church of Christ. Her husband preceded her in death in 1961.
Suvivors include one son, Bill McMahan, Mocksville, NC; one stepdaughter, Mrs. Archer Powell, Spur; 4 sisters, Fern Proffer, Lona Orsburn, and Pearl Loyd, all of Gainsville; Melessa Utley, Whitesboro; two brothers, Lee DeLisle of Grand Junction, CO; and Tom DeLisle, Gainsville; five grandchildren and six great grands.
Pallbearers included Robert Fielder Dalton Proffer, Calvin Cunningham, Gerald Utley, William C. McMahan, Gordon Orsburn, Joe Kidd, Lloyd Hindman, E.O. McElyea and Arner Watson.
©The Texas Spur, September 16, 1971
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