Matt Drake

Lubbock Avalanche -JULY 26 (1941)

CROSBYTON - Last rites for Matt Emmitt Drake, 54, who died unexpectedly of a heart ailment last night in Nichols sanitarium at Spur, will be read at 2:30 o'clock Sunday afternoon in the Church of Christ here.

Curry Funeral Home will direct burial in Crosbyton Cemetery.

Mr. Drake had gone to the sanitarium to obtain medicine and was not a patient there. He suffered the heart attack as he walked into the sanitarium.

Surviving are the wife; two sons, Orville of Crosbyton and Ray of Shamrock; eight daughters, Mrs. Eva Pearl Mullins of Ralls; Mrs. Velma Stone of Cone; Mrs. Cordelia Wallace of Artesia, New Mexico; Mrs. Bessie Wright of Houston; and Jessie Drake of Houston; Buna Lee Drake, of Crosbyton; Georgia Nell Drake of New Mexico and Martha Maxine Drake of Crosbyton.

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