Fort Worth Star Telegram, September 11, 1942ELBERT HAMILTON
Funeral services for Elbert Hamilton, 55, WW veteran who died Thursday at
his home, 4121 Parrish Road, will be conducted at 2 p.m. Saturday at
Riverside Church of Christ.
J. Willard Morrow, minister, will officiate and burial will be in Garden
of Memories Memorial Park (sic Mount Olivet).
At the time of his death, Mrs. Hamilton was enroute home from New Mexico,
where she had attended funeral services for her brother.
Other survivors are a daughter, Mrs. Harrell Anderson, Fort Worth; a granddaughter, two brothers, Charles Hamilton, Weatherford, and Robert
Hamilton, Abilene and a sister, Mrs. May Humphrey, Abilene.(researcher's note: In this obit, Elbert's first born daughter, Lawana Juanita, was not mentioned. Lawana Juanita's mother, Gertrude Womack, Elbert's first wife.
Following their divorce both Elbert and Gertrude remarried. After her
parents divorce, Lawana Juanita grew up in the household of her mother and
step-father. She chose to use McAnich as her surname. McAninch was the
surname of her step-father, George Edward McAninch. Gertrude Womack, born in
Fannin Co., TX, was the daughter of Fannin Co., TX pioneers Stephen Fletcher
Womack and Sarah McDaniel.)