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Robert Lee Blanton - James Odell Hall - Vera Robinson
A.B. Hall -Ruby Lee Blanton -Ila F. Blanton-Bessie May Kearney

From Ruth Walsh

OBITUARY: Sherman Democrat, December 7, 1995, p. A-8
ROBERT LEE BLANTON - Graveside service for Robert Lee Blanton, 77,
of Bonham who died Dec. 6, 1995 at Wilson N. Jones Memorial Hospital, will
be held 2 p.m. Friday at Willow Wild Cemetery, under the direction of Wise
funeral Home. The Rev. Gary Gibbs will officiate. //Survivors include two
sons, Jimmie Blanton of Carthage and Billy Joe Blanton of Bonham; two
daughters, Nell Daniels of Telephone and Robbie Harris of Sherman; a
brother, Bill Blanton of Southmayd; 10 grandchildren and nine great-
grandchildren. // The family will receive friends at Wise Funeral home from
7-8 p.m. Thursday.

Herald Democrat, Monday, November 3, 1997
JAMES ODELL HALL - DESOTO - James Odell Hall, 8 of DeSoto died at
Methodist Medical Center in Dallas. // A funeral service will be at 10
a.m. Tuesday at First United Methodist Church in DeSoto. Dr. Bart Smith will
officiate. // Burial will be at 1:30 p.m. Tuesday at Arledge Ridge Cemetery in
Bonham. West/Hurt Funeral Home of DeSoto is in charge of arrangements. //
Survivors include his wife Frances Edward Hall of DeSoto, daughters
Charlotte Hamilton of Houston and Sheryl Hall of Nashville, Tenn., sister
Lucille Latimer of Duncanville and brother Floyd Hall of Bonham. // The
family will receive visitors from 5 to 7 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

(Unidentified newspaper)February 1998
VERA ROBINSON - Leonard - Services for Vera Robinson, 95, of Leonard
will be held at 2 p.m. Friday in the First Baptist Church in Leonard.
She died Wednesday, Feb. 18, 1898 at Gardendale Nursing Home in
Jacksonville, Texas. // The Rev. Chris Cowen will officiate with burial in
Leonard Cemetery. // Surviving are her daughter, Mary Frances Holden of
Jacksonville; sister, Mildred Broach of Grand Prairie; four grandchildren, 10
great-grandchildren and seven great-great grandchildren. // The family will be
at Taylor Funeral Home in Leonard from 7 to 8 p.m. Thursday. (Vera
Robinson was the former Troy Vera Owens. Her first husband was Milton
Francis Hall, son of John F. Hall and Josephine Evaline Blanton, who died at
Leonard, Fannin Co., TX on 3-9-1920.

Herald Democrat, Sherman, TX February 17, 1999
'RED' A.B. HALL - "Red" A.B. Hall was born March 27, 1913, in the
Leonard area and died Jan. 29, 1999 at a San Antonio Hospital. He was
formerly from this area and retired from Pillsbury in Denison. / He was
preceded in death by his wife, Effie Beatrice Hall; son Joe Charles Hall;
and Great-grandson Paul Lalley, Jr. // He is survived by his brother Richard
Hall of Sacramento, Calif; two sisters, Onita Norwood of Fort Worth, Texas,
and Retha Rushing of Leonard, Texas; daughter, Edna Lauraetta Stowe of
San Antonio, Texas; three granddaughters, Shelly Yong of Sherman, Texas,
Twila Metcalf of Platter, Okla and Sylvia Stogsdill of Tyler, Texas; eight
great-grandchildren and one great-great-granddaughter. // Graveside services
will be held at 11: a.m. Saturday, Feb. 20th in Colbert, Okla Cemetery. Pastor
Cletus Stogsdill of Savoy will officiate. (Alvin Bryan Hall was the son of
Joseph Franklin Hall and Edna Ann Latimer and the grandson of John F. Hall
and Josephine Evaline Blanton.)

OBITUARY DALLAS MORNING NEWS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1999 p.4A
BLANTON, RUBY LEE - Born February 16, 1927 in Ector, TX. Passed away
November 30, 1999 in Wills Point TX. She is survived by her husband, Elbert
Ophell Blanton; sons James Blanton, Bert Blanton; daughter Sherry Harris
and a host of other relatives. Services will be 1:00 PM Friday, December 3,
1999 at Restland Abbey Chapel.

Sherman Democrat, May 1991
BLANTON TURNS 93 - Leonard - Ila Blanton of Leonard was honored by
family and friends on her 93rd birthday Aug. 27. The gathering was held in the
home of her nephew and his wife, Blanton and Martha Hancock. // Miss
Blanton was born in the Blanton Chapel community west of Leonard, in 1898.
Her birthday guests enjoyed listening to her reminiscences of Leonard in the
early 1900's, life on the old Blanton homeplace, friends and neighbors of long
ago and of church revivals. According to the honoree, the revivals were so
well-attended that all the people could not gather in the Blanton Chapel
Church. // Miss Blanton has one surviving brother, Lois Blanton, a resident of
the Whitewright Nursing home and one surviving sister, Juanita Hancock of
the Blanton Chapel community.

Herald Democrat, Sherman-Denison, TX 5-27-1999
ILA F. BLANTON
Graveside services for Ila F. Blanton, 100 year-old Leonard resident will be
held at 10 a.m. Friday in Leonard Cemetery. She died Wednesday, May 26,
1999, at the Fairview Nursing Home in Bonham. The Rev. David Riley will
officiate. Surviving are her sister, Juanita Hancock of Leonard; and brother
Lois Blanton of Whitewright. The family will be at Taylor funeral Home in
Leonard from 7-8 p.m. Thursday.
(Researcher's note: Most records do not reveal that Ila was once married and had
a deceased child. She married Dennis Kearney 6-11-1917 in Fannin Co., TX and had a child
born within the next few years. After the death of the baby Ila divorced Mr. Kearney.
Dorothy Latimer of Leonard, TX recently told me that during the 1980's Ila tried to
find the grave of her long deceased child; however, Ila was unable to find the baby's grave
because the tree the baby had been buried near was no longer standing. The baby is buried
in the Burns Cemetery, Trenton, Fannin Co., TX. The baby was named Bessie May Kearney

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