Funeral services for Mrs. Maggie Elam, 72 former Crosbyton resident, were held in Tulia Baptist Church Thursday. Burial was in Crosbyton Cemetery with Rev. Wayland Boyd assisting at graveside services.
Mrs. Elam had been dismissed from a hospital early Wednesday and was preparing for bed when she was apparently stricken with a heart attack and died within a few minutes.
Mrs. Elam was a longtime resident and for the past few years had been living with a daughter, Mrs. D. A. Dawson, Tulia. Mr. and Mrs. Elam moved here in 1909 where she lived until her husband's death in 1946.
Survivors include Mrs. Dawson; two sons, Robert and J.C. of Lubbock and four grandchildren.
Pallbearers were Woodrow Robertson, Dennis Robertson, J.C. Smith, T.W. Stockton, Jr., Floyd McGinnis and Lewis Benton.
The Crosbyton Review, Thursday, November 27, 1958
TULIA, Nov. 20 (Special) — Mrs. Charles F. Elam, 109 S. Collins, died at 9 p.m. Wednesday in the home of her daughter, Mrs. D. A. Dawson of Tulia.
Funeral services will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday in the First Baptist Church of Tulia. The Rev. W. ? Record, pastor, will officiate. Burial will be in Crosbyton Cemetery, with services under the direction of Wallace Funeral Home of Tulia.
Mrs. Elam had lived in Tulia since 1947 when she moved here from Crosby County where she had lived since 1908. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Tulia.
Survivors are two sons, J. C. and Bob Elam, both of Lubbock; the daughter, Mrs. Dawson of Tulia; four brothers, J. C. Stevens, Munday, Tex., Ray Stevens of Tulia, Joe Stevens of Denver and Luther Stevens of San ?, four sisters, Mrs. Annie Taylor of ?, S. E. Taylor of Munday, Mrs. Gladys Wheeler of Long Beach, Calif., and Mrs. Wade Spiller of Tulia; and four grandchildren.
Source: Newspaper unknown, dated November 21, 1958
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