Foy Addison, Former Sheriff, Dies Monday
Funeral services for Foy M. Addison, 55, former Crosby Co. sheriff, were held at 4 p.m. Tuesday in First Baptist Church of Lorenzo. Rev. Cecil Foster, pastor, officiated, assisted by Rev. Noel Brooks of Quannah.
Mr. Addison died suddenly in Lubbock Monday morning following a heart attack. Burial was in Lorenzo Cemetery.
Employed as security patrolman at Texas Tech for the past five years, Addison first moved to Lorenzo from Denton in 1933. He served first as a deputy sheriff of Crosby County in 1948, and one term as sheriff from 1949 to 1951. While sheriff he lived in Crosbyton.
After leaving Crosbyton he was with the police departments at Slaton and Tahoka, and later became assistant police chief in Lovington, NM. He was city marshall of Lorenzo for two years, and in 1956 he joined the security patrol.
Survivors include his wife, Floyce; two sons, Foy Mack Jr. and Jack Adren, both of the home; his mother, Mrs. D.C. Addison, Denton; two brothers, Otis G. of Fort Worth, and John, Canton; five sisters, Mrs. Ottie Cox, Mrs. Mackie McBride and Mrs. Donia Grissom, all of Denton, Mrs. Hollie Dee Andrews, Dallas and Mrs. Homer Collins, Whittier, Calif.
©Crosbyton Review, July 13, 1961
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
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