Odus Carlton Eppars
Posted on Thursday, August 5th, 2004

Funeral services for Odus Carlton Eppars, 80, of Cumby were held at 3 p.m.
Friday, July 30, at West Oaks Funeral Home Chapel with the Revs. David Burns
and Tim Mabe officiating.  Burial followed at the Cumby Cemetery.

Mr. Eppars died at 1:30 p.m. Wednesday, July 28, at his residence.

He was born on May 28, 1924, in the Dike community of Hopkins County,
to Felton Odus and Edith Lucille Bartley. He married Billie Dove Patton
on Feb. 7, 1948, in Dallas.

Mr. Eppars was a retired farmer.

He was a member of Brashear Baptist Church.

Other survivors include three daughters, Quita Slaton of California,
Cherri Ethridge of Brashear and Brenda Gardner of Arlington;
three sons, Jimmy Eppars of Houston, and Wade Eppars and Michael Eppars,
both of Cumby; one brother, Wayne Eppars of Dike; one sister, Wanda Roberts
of Sulphur Springs; nine grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

Mr. Eppars was preceded in death by his parents and two grandchildren.