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Funeral Services were held Saturday in Campbell Funeral Chapel for Mrs. Effie Cannon, 89. She died at Nichols' Rest Home March 15, following a lengthy illness.

M.C. Cox, minister of the Girard Church of Christ officiated, assisted by Rev. Wm. McReynolds, pastor of First Methodist Church, Spur.

Born in Bell County in 1873, she first came to Spur in 1960 as a resident of Nichols' Rest Home. She was a member of the Church of Christ.

Survivors include one nephew, Horace Wood, Lubbock; two nieces, Mrs. Ira Mashburn, Copperas Cove, Texas, and Mrs. Charles Goodnight, Killeen.

Pallbearers included J.R. Olney Walker, Jack Rector, John Albin, R.D. Stewart, and D.E. Woodward.

Interment was in Spur Cemetery.

©The Texas Spur, March 21, 1963
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay, transcribed by Becky Hodges, August 9, 2004

Services were held at the Church of Christ for John W. Cannon, aged 66 years, 5 months and 17 days, who died Jan. 17, at the Woods home in Kent County. Mr. Cannon had been in ill health for some two years and he and his wife had made their home with relatives. He was born July 31, 1879.

J.H. Miles, minister of the Church of Christ conducted the services with Ward Funeral Home directing. Interment was made in the Spur Cemetery.

Pallbearers were Cecil Fox, Morris Laine, Marvin Vaughn, Virgil Senn, Lawis Lee an Rev. R. C. Brown.

©The Texas Spur, January 25, 1940
from the records of Lillian Grace Nay, tanscribed by Becky Hodges, August 9, 2004


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