Burt Flowers and wife, Faye Walkup of Collinsville, Grayson County, came to settle in Crosby County in January, 1924, and Dee Flowers had preceded him by arriving in December of 1923. Burt and Dee began farming and broke out a sod pasture on the John and Lish English place. They tied a rag on the spoke of a wagon wheel and counted the times the wheel turned over to estimate the number of acres broken out. Dee Flowers married Miss Vera Lamb, June 6, 1925. Dee and Vera have two children, Billie and Jack.
Services Slated Today For Victim Of Wreck
RALLS (Special) - Services for Mrs. Faye Flowers, 63, who was killed in a traffic mishap in Lubbock Saturday, will be at 3 p.m. today in the Emma Church of Christ here.Clark Johnson of Lubbock and Elba Hall, a Ralls minister, will officiate with burial in Ralls Cemetery under the direction of Carter Funeral Home.
Mrs. Flowers and her husband moved to the Ralls area from Collinsville 46 years ago.
Survivors include her husband of Ralls; four daughters, Mrs. Grady Martin of Dallas, Mrs. Don Krall of Odessa, Mrs. S.C. Jones of Wichita Falls and Mrs. Helen Michael of 3109 Aberdeen; a son, Clyde Flowers of 2606 82nd St.; three brothers, Frank Walkup of Collinsville, R.A. Walkup and R.N. Walkup, both of Houston; seven sisters, Mrs. Bess Box of Houston, Mrs. Emma Ballard, Mrs. Charles Goodman, Mrs. Bob Neeley, and Mrs. Joe Pilcher, all of Collinsville, Mrs. Dasha Pitcher of Dallas, and Mrs. J.T. Thomas of Bells.
Four other persons, including Mrs. Flowers´ 66-year-old husband, were injured in the accident Saturday night at Acuff Road and Loop 289, officers said. Flowers was treated at Methodist Hospital and dismissed, Billy Fuller, 42, Mrs. Doris Fuller, 31, and their 12-year-old son Dennis were treated at West Texas Hospital where Mrs. Fuller was admitted overnight. She was released from the hospital Sunday.
Pallbearers will be Doyle Berry, Jess Hall, Orville Lee Campbell, Guy Thompson, T.W. Stockton Jr. and Ross Cash.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, Monday, January 26, 1970
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
Flowers Funeral Scheduled Today
RALLS (Special) - Services will be at 3 p.m. today at the Emma Church of Christ of Ralls for Burt Flowers, 69, of Crosbyton. He died Tuesday night at Lubbock´s Methodist Hospital after a short illness.Flowers was manager of the Crosbyton Farmers Coop Gin at the time of his death.
Lay ministers Paul Keele of Big Spring and Clark Johnson of Lubbock will officiate at the funeral. Burial will be at Ralls Cemetery by Carter Funeral Home of Ralls.
Flowers was a former resident of Cone and Lorenzo, moving to the South Plains in 1924 from Collinsville. He had owned and operated a cotton gin at Lorenzo at one time.
Flowers was a member of the Cone Church of Christ and of Crosbyton Lodge No. 1020 of AF&AM.
He is survived by a son, Clyde Flowers of Sudan; four daughters, Mrs. Grady Martin of Memphis, Tenn.; Mrs. Don Krall of Odessa, Mrs. Tom Suite of Lubbock and Mrs. S.C. Jones of Abilene; two brothers, Lee Flowers of Gainesville and Vic Flowers of Collinsville; a sister, Mrs. Vera Haralson of Sherman; and seven grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Jesse Hall, Doyle Berry, Arvil Lee Campbell, T.W.Stockton Jr., Guy Thompson and Ross Cash.
Lubbock Avalanche Journal, October 4, 1972
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
 |
Crosby County TXGenWeb Project
|
This site may be freely linked to but not duplicated in any fashion without my consent.
The information on these pages is meant for personal genealogical research only and is not for commercial use of ANY type.