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- Harry Lammons, of Wills Point, native of Athens and resident of this town for many years, died of a heart attack Tuesday morning at 12:30 o'clock in a local hospital.
Mr. Lammons was born in Athens on August 4, 1891, and operated a drugstore here for about twenty-five years. He resided in Athens until 1940, when he moved to Mt. Pleasant to work for the Hinson Pharmacy as a druggist. He went to Wills Point from Mt. Pleasant and resided in that town until his death.
Mr. Lammons was the son of Mr. and Mrs. M.D. Lammons of Athens. He was a lifelong member of the Baptist Church and a member of the Masonic and Knights of Pythias lodges. He was married to Miss Mattie Spencer of Athens, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Spencer, on February 2, 1912 in Athens.
Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Mattie Lammons; one son, Pete Lammons of Grapeland; one daughter, Mrs. Jake Gould of Blessing; one brother, Col. Frank B. Lammons of Camp Pickett, Va.; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Black and Miss Tex Lammons of Houston, and five grandsons.
Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock at the First Baptist Church, with the Rev. Jarred I. Cartlidge, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Corsicana, and the Rev. S.H. Maples, pastor of the local church officiating. Burial was in the City cemetery. Hassell and Foster Funeral Home of Palestine was in charge.
The funeral was held on what would have been Mr. and Mrs. Lammons' thirty-second wedding anniversary.
Pallbearers were: Johnson Cone of Palestine, Edwin McCain, Jack Anderson and Lloyd Hurley of Wills Point,and Winfield Stirman, Will Paul Jones, Joe Lamb, Page Spradling, Bennett Smith and Owen Killingsworth of Athens.
Published in the Athens Review February 3, 1944
- General Notes:
B-1900 Athens, Henderson co., Texas Census, ED 55, sheet 4, line 70.
B-SLC #1398560: Cemeteries of Henderson Co., Texas, p. 39.
M-SLC #1481020: Henderson Co., Texas Marriages, Vol. 8, p. 260 1910 Athens, Henderson Co., Texas, ED 12, sheet 6A, page 92/9151.
Probates: ibid.
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