Funeral services were held Wednesday at 3 p.m. in Campbell's Funeral Chapel for Dexton (Pete) Lee Reese, 63. Rev. Denis Mashburn, Free Will Baptist Church, San Springs, Okla., officiated.Mr. Reese, a retired appliance serviceman, died July 14 in a Sand Springs nursing home. A veteran of World War II, he resided in Dickens County for 3 years. He had resided the past ten years in Sand Springs, Okla. He was a member of the Baptist Church.
Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Elsie Reese, Sand Springs, Okla.; one daughter, Mrs. Jean Boulay, Sapuipa, Okla.; two sons, Herb and Alvie Marr Reese, both of Sand Springs, Okla.; 2 brothers, J.C. Reese, Spur and Carl Reese, Menton, CA; one sister, Mrs. Maggie Garrett, Lubbock; eight grandchildren.
Burial was in the Spur Cemetery.
©The Texas Spur, July 17, 1975
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
Services for Elsie Iona Reese, 76, of Sand Springs, Oklahoma and formerly of Dickens County, were held November 4 at 2 p.m. in Campbell Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. C.L. Atkinson, pastor of the Afton Baptist Church, officiating.Mrs. Reese died November 1. She was born in Haskell on April 24, 1912 and moved from Dickens County in 1965 to Sand Springs, Okla. She was a homemaker and a member of the First Baptist Church.
She married Dexter Lee Reese on October 2, 1934, in Spur; he died in 1975.
Survivors include two sons, Herb Reese, San Bernadino, California; and A.M. Reese, Sand Springs, Okla.; one daughter, Imogene Bouley, Anaheim, CA; a brother, Elmer "Bud" Gunnells of Tahoka; three sisters Velma Clay and Irene Jackson, both of Dickens; Opal Martin, Tahoka; eight grandchildren and six great grandchildren.
Burial was in spur Memorial Cemetery with Campbell Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
©The Texas Spur, November 10, 1988
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
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