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Barbara (Caddell) Fox

The Groesbeck Journal
Thursday, January 6, 1972

Funeral Rites For C. C. Stone Held Saturday

 
    Funeral rites for Charlie C. Stone were held at the Marlin Church of Christ on Saturday, January 1, at 2 p.m.  Mr. Stone, a prominent farmer, stockman and landowner in the Odds vicinity of southwestern Limestone County, died suddenly December 30 at 6:40 p.m. in a Temple hospital after having been carried there a short time before for an examination of a sudden respiratory attack.  It is believed that his death was due to heart failure.
     Though Mr. Stone had been in ill health for the past several years, he had stayed active for most of the time in managing the affairs of his farm and livestock interests.  He had particularly seemed in good health during the Christmas season when all of his children and most of his twenty-six grandchildren had been for the Christmas Eve family gathering.
     The Marlin Church of Christ was filled to overflowing with the friends and neighbors of the many years that the Stone family had resided in the Odds - Criswell and Ben Hur areas.  Some were present neighbors but many were neighbors of past years who came back from their present homes elsewhere to join in final tribute and to mourn with the family the passing of a fine and good man who had always been a good neighbor and friend.
     Born February 25, 1900, in Callahan County, Texas, the son of the late Newton A. and Mary Elizabeth Williams Stone, he took as his wife Miss Shirley Ann Stone in Waco on August 21, 1922, and the couple had made their most of the ensuing forty-nine years of life together in the Odds vicinity, where they reared their large family of six sons and three daughters.
     Besides Mrs. Stone, the survivors are Charles Stone, Jr. of Otto, Marshall Stone of Wilmer, G. Z. Stone of Odds, Billy Kyle Stone of Groesbeck, W. N. Stone of Mexia, Jack Stone of Corpus Christi, Mrs. Johnny Ray of Marlin, Mrs. Travis Smith of Coolidge and Mrs. Blanchard LeNoir of Cleveland.
     He is also survived by three brothers, R. C. Stone of Frosa and A. C. and W. N. Stone, both of Marlin; two sisters, Miss Lula Stone and Mrs. Lois Warneke, both of Otto, and 26 grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.
     A stalwart member of the Church of Christ for many years, funeral rites for Mr. Stone were conducted by Minister Bennie Lucas of Mexia.  Burial was in Criswell Cemetery in behalf of which Mr. Stone had been a benefactor and an official for many years.
     Adams Funeral of Marlin was in charge.  The following served as pallbearers:  W. D. Wolf, R. V. Hale, John Deen Rader, Lester Ray, Billy A. Stone, James Robert Stone, Charles Edward Stone and W. H. Shehorn.