Mrs. Mollie Nix, 81, dies Thursday Night After Long Illness
The rest that comes to a well spent life of love, service, usefulness, devotion to her family, service and loyalty to her friends and usefulness to her community, come in the passing of Mrs. Mollie Nix, 81, last Thursday night, Oct. 31, at 10:00 o'clock, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. W.T. Wilson in Spur, after a two months illness.
At her bedside during her illness were her three daughters, Mrs. W.T. Wilson, Mrs. W.J. Carter, and Mrs. Lodie Herbst, who administered to her in loving kindness.
Funeral services were held at the Methodist chuch last Friday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock, with Rev. H.L. Thurston officiating.
Pallbearers were Medford Carter, Clint Pyron, Norman Wilson, B.C. Stapleton, Joe McDaniels, Arthur Hones.
Flower bearers were: Mmes. Arthur Hones, Emmett Burchett, Joe McDaniel, Leonard Culbert, Reginald Lindsey and Miss Grace Boothe.
Chandler Funeral Home had charge of arrangements with interment in the Spur Cemetery.
Mrs. Mollie Nix was born in Arkansas Feb. 8, 1862, and was married to John Nix, Jan. 26, 1879, in Harrisonburg, Ark. where they lived for 13 or 14 years before moving to Greenville, Texas, where they made their home for 31 years and where their children grew to manhood and womanhood. They moved to Dickens county in 1934 where she resided until the time of her death.
Grandmother Nix, as she was affectionately called by her friends, was converted early in life and joined the Methodist church where she was a loyal and dependable worker during the more active days ofher life. Mrs. Nix leaves a rich heritage of goodness and usefulness for those who come after. Those surviving are three daughters, Mrs. W.T. Wilson, Spur; Mrs. Lodie Herbst, Dickens; and Mrs. W.J. Carter; Hamlin; one son, Bert Nix, Spur; one brother, W.J. Thrower, Healdton, OK; 10 grandchildren, 10 great grandchildren and one great great grandchild.
Out of town relatives attending the funeral were Mr. and Mrs. Wanda Honea, Sundown. Mr. and Mrs. Birdie Pyron and family, Tahoka; Mr. and Mrs. Medford Carter and family, Hamlin, and Mrs. Erma Lindsey, Hamlin.
©The Texas Spur, October 28, 1942
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
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