No date - no newspaper (but probably Marlin Democrat)

Typed as spelled by Lena Stone Criswell

REV. WILLINGHAM, BAPTIST MISSIONARY, DIES SUNDAY

     Reverend Isaac Hugh Willingham, age 83, died at his home, 306 Potomac

street in Marlinn, at 1:30 o'clock Sunday morning following a prolonged illness which became more acute last November. He was born in Alabama March 5, 1862, and moved with his parents to the Criswell community in Falls County when he was five years of age.

     All of his life has been devoted to Christian leadership work and as a Baptist minister he has held pulpit assignments in a number of different sections in Texas. For more than 60 years he has been active in religious work and has been county Missionary for the Baptist church in Falls county. He has been in Marlin for 23 years.

     Surviving are his wife and seven children. Four daughters, Mrs. Amy Stokes, Abilene; Mrs. Mattie Durham, Mart; Mrs. Elizabeth Patterson, Bryan; Mrs. Mary Jowers, St. Louis. Three sons, Isaac Willingham of the U.S. Navy presently listed as missing in action; J. B. Willingham, Lott; M. H. Turner, step-son, Tyler.

     Funeral services Monday afternoon, February 12th from the First Baptist church at 4 o'clock. Conducted by Rev. J. D. Barnes of Valley Mills, assisted by Rev. W. O. Wright. Burial in Calvary cemetery. The body lay in state at the church from 3 to 4 o'clock, prior to the funerl.

     Active pallbearers: Cliff McCoy, John Erskine, M. M. Allen, T. T. Criswell, Ross Stricklin, Jack Parton, H. B. Stallworth. Honorary pallbearers, Deacons of the First Baptist Church and his host of friends.