W.F. Blanton & Rebecca Virginia Wrenn Blanton

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W.F. & Rebecca Virginia Wrenn Blanton

Sherman Democrat, February 22, 1962
FORMER GRAYSON TAX ASSESSOR W.F. BLANTON DIES - Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Dannel Funeral chapel here for W.F. Blanton, 88, of 310 W. Middleton, a former Grayson tax assessor-collector, and retired manager of the Kay Kimball farms. He died at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday in a Sherman hospital. // The Rev. Daniel J. Barron, pastor of the First Methodist Church, and the Rev. Darold Morgan, pastor of the First Baptist Church, will be in West Hill Cemetery. // E.J. Miller, Willard Tuttle, Frank Thompson, Leon Foshee, J.E. Jamison, and Forrest Peveto will be pallbearers, C.F. Douglas, Joe Davenport, A.B. Case, G.M. Hennen, Joe O'Hagan will be honorary pallbearers. // The family will be at the funeral home from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Tuesday. // Mr. Blanton was born May 6, 1874 near Whitewright. On Nov. 19, 1896, he married Miss Jenny Wrenn in Ector. He had been manager of the Kimball farms for 20 years, and tax assessor for six years. He has been a city counselor. He was a member of the Methodist Church and the Woodmen of the World. // Survivors are his wife; two sons, Tom R. Blanton ofSherman and O.L. Blanton of Fort Worth; two daughters, Miss Nadine Blanton and Mrs. W.W. Lay, both of Sherman; a brother, Ben F. Blanton of Denison; a sister, Mrs. Charlie Layman of Whitewright; two grandchildren, Bob Blanton of Sherman and Mrs. Charles Crabtree of Fort Worth; and four great-grandchildren. (Researcher's note: William Foster Blanton was the son of Thomas Jefferson Blanton and Elizabeth Jane
Locke. His paternal grandparents were Josiah Blanton and Lucy Westbrook. Josiah was the son of Jeremiah Blanton and Sarah Rebecca Womack of Rutherford Co., NC.)
Sherman Democrat, Dec. 28, 1964
MRS. W.F. BLANTON, OLD SAVOY COLLEGE PUPIL, DIES AT 90 - Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the First Methodist Church here for Mrs. W.F. Blanton, 90, of 310 W. Middleton, one of the remaining students of Savoy College, who died at 9 a.m. Sunday in a Sherman hospital after a 2-1/2 year illness. // Dr. Ed Barcus of Waco, formerly pastor of the church here, will conduct the services. Burial will be in Memorial Park Cemetery, directed by Dannel Funeral Home. // Leon Foshee, Coy Wrenn, Johnny Morris, W.J. Tuttle and J.E. Jamison, all of Sherman, and Marvin Wrenn of Dallas will be pallbearers. // The family will be at 310 W. Middleton Monday evening. // Mrs. Blanton was born Aug. 31, 1874, in Savoy, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Wrenn. On Nov. 19, 1896, she married Mr. Blanton in Ector. He died in 1962. She was a member of the First Methodist Church, Woman's Society of Christian Service, the Garden Club and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. // Survivors are two sons, Tom Blanton of Sherman and O.L. Blanton of Fort Worth; two daughters, Miss Nadine Blanton and
Mrs. W.W. Lay, both of Sherman; a brother, R.W. Wrenn and a sister, Mrs. W.M. May, both of Savoy; two grandchildren, Bob Blanton and Mrs. Charles F. Crabtree; and four great-grandchildren. (Researcher’s note: Rebecca Virginia Wrenn was the widow of William Foster Blanton, son of Thomas J. Blanton and Elizabeth Jane Locke.)

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