Funeral services will be held this afternoon at the First Baptist Church at 2:30 p.m. for W.F. Neaves, 79, who died in a Lubbock hospital at 10:25 p.m. Tuesday.Mr. Neaves had been ill about one week. He was a retired farmer.
Rev. W.L. Kite will officiated; he will be assisted by Rev. J.E. Lee former pastor of the Bethel Baptist Church.
Born in Alabama in 1883, Mr. Neaves first came to Dickens County in 1926. He was married in 1911. He was a member of the First Baptist Church and also served as a deacon.
Survivors include his wife; five daughters, Mrs. L. McJunkin, Mrs. Dillard Williams, Mrs. J.B. Morrison, Jr., Mrs. J.F. Ballard, and Mrs. Don Elliott; two sons, W.H. Neaves and Fred Neaves, Jr.; four sisters, Mrs. Irma Rowe, Mrs. Edith Mitchell, Mrs. Saidah Bettis and Mrs. Niva Kelley; two brothers, Roy and Gilmer Neaves . Twelve grandchildren and four great grandchildren also survive.
Pallbearers will be Olney Walker, Jesse Morrison, Wayne Richardson, Fletcher Rich, Mansell Bragg and Norton Barrett.
Interment was in Spur Cemetery.
©The Texas Spur June 14, 1962
Transcribed by Becky Hodges, September 2004
Funeral services were held Saturday, December 24 at 2 p.m. in the First Baptist Church here for Mrs. W.F. Neaves, 76, who died at 6 p.m. Friday at Haskell, following an extended illness.Born in Tupelo, Mississippi in 1890, Evva Turner moved to Texas and was wed to W.F. Neaves in Hunt County in 1911. Moving to Dickens County in 1926, the family has resided in Spur for 41 years. She was preceded in death by two sons, Ralph (1932) and Claude (1955) and by her husband, the late W.F. Neaves in 1962.
Mrs. Neaves was a member of the First Baptist Church in Spur.
Rev. Norris Taylor officiated. Favorite hymns were sung by the First Baptist Church quartet under the direction of Bill Glenn.
Mrs. Neaves is survived by five daughters, Mrs. Imogene McJunkin, Mrs. Nina Faye Williams; Mrs. Doris Morrison, Mrs. Elaine Ballard and Mrs. Mildred Elliott; two sons, W.H. Neaves and Fred Neaves; three sisters, Docia Potts, Mrs. Lora McKay, and Mrs. Tressie Fox; one brother, Roy Turner; 12 grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Buck Ballard, Norton Barrett, Frederick Dalby, Russell Williams, Cecil Hagar, Lloyd Hindman, Jesse Morrison and Earnest Kearney.
©The Texas Spur January 5, 1967
Transcribed by Becky Hodges, September 2004
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