Sidney Armstrong
1869
- 1940
Maggie Armstrong
1864
- 1938
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Denison--Mrs. Sidney Armstrong,
74, wife of Engineer Sidney Armstrong
of the Missouri-Kansas-Texas railroad, died at 11:30 p.m. Monday at the
family home, 809 West Chestnut, where she had resided for 39 years. She
had been ill six months.
Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m.
Wednesday at the Short and
Murray chapel, the Rev. Ben F. Hearn officiating, followed by interment
at Fairview cemetery.
Surviving relatives include besides the
husband, a son by a former
marriage, Ted Robinson of Dallas, a daughter, Mrs. B. B. Simms of
Denison;
two sisters, Mrs. W. J. Stanford of Denison and Mrs. Fannie Purdy of
Albuquerque,
N.M., and two grandchildren, Martha Jane and Virginia Ann Simms of
Denison.
Born in Wellsville, Mo., Jan. 31, 1864, as
Margaret Waters, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Waters, she was reared and educated in Grayson
County.
She was married first in Sherman to Mr. Robinson and later to Mr.
Armstrong
at Sherman Sept. 21, 1896. The couple lived a number of years in Fort
Worth,
where Mr. Armstrong became connected with the railroad. They came to
Denison
in 1899.
Mrs. Armstrong was a member of the First
Christian church and the
auxiliary to the engineers.
June 15, 1938 Sherman Democrat