None submitted
Name: John Winfred RINEHART Sex: M Birth: 29 APR 1897 in Jamestown, Cherokee County, Alabama Death: 12 AUG 1962 in Odessa, Ector County, Texas Burial: Spur Memorial Cemetery, Dickens County, Texas. Father: Isaac S. RINEHART b: 11 FEB 1868 in Jamestown, Cherokee County, Alabama Mother: Cynthia Ann CONAWAY b: 22 NOV 1869 in Cherokee County, Alabama Marriage 1 Celia Myrtle LOW b: 25 SEP 1899 in Lamkin, Comanche County, Texas Married: 23 DEC 1917 in Comanche, Comanche County, Texas Name: Celia Myrtle LOW Sex: F Birth: 25 SEP 1899 in Lamkin, Comanche County, Texas Death: 1 JUL 1982 in Jayton, Kent County, Texas Note: Celia was killed in an automobile accident. She is buried in Spur Cemetery, Spur, Dickens County, Texas. Father: Joseph Marion LOW Mother: Celia Annie HERREN Children of John and Celia: Luther Marion RINEHART b: 31 DEC 1918 in Brownwood, Brown County, Texas Emma Lucille RINEHART b: 25 APR 1921 in Comanche, Comanche County, Texas Loyd Issac RINEHART b: 1 MAR 1922 in Sagerton, Haskell County, Texas Bertha Lorene RINEHART b: 21 JUL 1925 in Coleman County, Texas Myrtle Leona RINEHART b: 4 MAY 1926 in Eliasville, Young County, Texas
Funeral services were held in Bethel Baptist Church for John Winfred Rinehart, 68. Rev. Chester Sassman officiated, assisted by E.O. McElyea.Mr. Rinehart died Sunday in Odessa. He had been ill for about two years. He worked in Spur as a painter and carpenter and made his home on Highway 70 east of twon. He came to Dickens County in 1947, and had previously resided in Kent County.
Survivors include his wife; two sons, Luther M. Rinehart, Midland; Loyd Rinehart, Hobbs, NM; three daughters, Mrs. Lucille Culberth, Mrs. Lorene Parker, and Mrs. Leona Smith; three brothers, Melton, Walter and Brown Rinehart; one sister, Mrs. Emma Lamar. Twelve grandchildren and three great grandchildren also survive.
Pallbearers were J.T. Green, J.J. McDonald, Red Wallace, Elmer Wright, Red Pevehouse and E.E. Higginbotham.
Interment was in Spur Cemetery.
©The Texas Spur August 16, 1962
Transcribed by Becky Hodges, September 2004
Kent County recorded a traffic fatality July 1 when Mrs. Celia Myrtle Rinehart, 82, died as the result of a car accident 2 miles east of Jayton on Highway 380.Funeral services were held Saturday, July 3, at 2 p.m. in the Highway 70 Church of Christ with Rev. George Ivy, Midland Church of God pastor and local minister, Bob Brandon, officiating.
A member of the Church of Christ, Mrs. Rinehart had been a resident of Dickens County since 1947, moving here from Kent County. Her husband died in 1962.
Survivors include her step-mother, Lemmer Low Talley, Comanche; two sons, Luther Rinehart, Midland and Loyd Rinehart, Hobbs, New Mexico; two daughters, Lorene Parker and Leona Smith, both of Odessa; two brothers, J.B. Low, Galveston and Joe Low, Granbury; five sisters, Eva Summers, Bertha Rinehart, Fredonia Brawley and Mary Smith, all of Comanche and Leona Walker, Galveston; 12 grandchildren; 32 great grandchildren and 3 great great grandchildren.
Burial was in Spur Cemetery with Campbell Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
©The Texas Spur, July 8, 1982
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay
© Dickens County Historical Commission 1997-2022
This site may be freely linked to but not duplicated in any fashion without consent. |
