Submitted by:
Lena Stone Criswell

SISSOM, ALBERT R. (BERT)

Surnames:  SISSOM, DOWD, CARLISE

MARLIN WEEKLY DEMOCRAT
Ninety-Eighth Year - Number 18
Marlin, Texas, Thursday, June 20, 1989

ALBERT R. (Bert) SISSOM

Albert Reeves (Bert) Sissom of Waxahachie died June 21 in a Corsicana hospital.

Funeral services were held Friday in Waxahachie with the Rev. John Dowd officiating.  Interment was in the Italy Cemetery.

Mr. Sissom was born Dec. 29, 1900 in Avalon and was raised on a farm there.  He attended Thorps Spring College and Terrell Military Academy.

While working for Lone Star Gas Company, he married Mary Carlise of the Ellis County community of Italy in 1927.

In 1940, he moved his family to Blooming Grove in Navarro County where he owned and operated the Variety Store.

Mr. Sissom was scout master and with his wife was sponsor of the Methodist Youth Fellowship for many years.

"Education is too important to twiddle our thumbs while the courts come in and take over the Legislature and the executive's function of policy-making for that critical, critical function of state government," he said.

He subsequently owned Dairy Queen in Marlin, Corsicana and Temple before retiring in Waxahachie where he was a member of the First United Methodist Church.

He was also a long-time member of the Lions Club in Waxahachie.

On Saturday, June 10, 1989, he served as host of the largest reuinion (sic) of the Sissiom Family with over 100 people attending, literally from coast to coast.

The gathering was held in Waxahachie at the Ellis County Women's Building.

At the age of 88, he was the patriarch lof (sic) the family.

The family suggests that memorials may be made to the Memorial Foundation Trust of the First United Methodist Church in Waxahachie.

Survivors include his wife Mary; son, Joe, and daughter-in-law, Jeanine, of Irving; three grandchildren; and a great granddaughter; a brother, Stanley of Italy; numerous nieces and nephews; a grand and great-grand nieces and nephews.

Services were under the direction of the Boze-Mitchell Funeral of Waxahachie.

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