Final rites for J.D. Travis, 62, Cone pioneer, were held at 4 p.m. Sunday in First Methodist Church at Cone with Mr. Ray Forbes, pastor, officiating. Assisting were Mr. E.C. Armstrong, Abilene, Mr. Harold Bostwick, pastor of Cone First Baptist Church and Joe Jackson, Cone.
Travis died Saturday in a Lubbock hospital following a stroke.
Burial was in Ralls Cemetery under direction of Carter Funeral Home.
Travis, a native of Bell County, had lived at Cone since 1907. He was a retired farmer.
Survivors are his wife, Roxie, and a brother, R.D. Travis, Ballinger.
Nephews served as pallbearers.
©Ralls Banner, March 3, 1962
photo courtesy of Tommy Forbes
Services for Roxie Zelma Davis Travis, 93, of Hereford and formerly of Crosby County, were held at 2 p.m. Saturday, June 20, 1987 in the Ralls First United Methodist Church with Rev. David Ray, pastor and Rev. Al Jennings, pastor of the Morton First United Methodist Church officiating.
Burial followed in the Ralls Cemetery under direction of Carter-Adams Funeral Home.
Mrs. Travis died at 10:45 p.m. Wednesday, June 17, 1987 in the Westgate Nursing Home in Hereford following a lengthy illness.
She was born August 14, 1893 in Dawson, Texas and moved to Crosby County in 1918 from Dawson. She had been a resident of Hereford's Westgate Nursing Home for a number of years.
She was a Methodist. She attended Texas Women's College in Fort Worth and was a retired school teacher, having taught at one time in McCoy and Cone schools.
Survivors include 2 brothers, Kermit B. Davis of Deming, NM; Hugh L. Davis of Truth or Consequences, NM; 1 sister, Roleta Teal of Eads, Colorado.
She helped raise several nieces and nephews.
©Crosby County News & Crosbyton Review, June 23, 1987
Record provided by Crosby County Pioneer Memorial Museum
transcribed by Linda Fox Hughes
Crosby County TXGenWeb Project
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