Herald Democrat
Friday, March 4, 2005 

Denison – J.T. Draper, 80-year-old Denison resident, died Wednesday, March 2, 2005, at his residence.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, March 5 at Bratcher Funeral Home Chapel in Denison. Burial will follow at Cedarlawn Memorial Park.
Mr. Draper was born on Oct. 25, 1924, in Pilot Point, Texas, son of Cyras James and Gertha Capps Draper. On Oct. 9, 1943, he married Pauline Gregory in Colbert, Oklahoma.
He was a member of Calvary Baptist Church in Denison. He was a World War II U.S. Army veteran. He retired from Phillips Petroleum after 25 years of service. He then started Draper Electric Company in Fritch, Texas, and retired in 1984, moving to Denison that year. While in Fritch, Texas, he was on the city council, fire chief and ambulance driver for 20 years. He worked in Little League in Fritch and was a member of the Fritch Lions Club. He was a tireless worker in Meals on Wheels in Denison and a deacon in the Baptist church for more than 50 years.
Pallbearers will be Roy Woods, Paul Spears, Troy Edmiaston, Walter Knight, Clyde Todd and Bryan Draper.
Surviving are his wife, Pauline Draper of Denison; two sons, Larry Draper and wife, Debbie and Kenny Draper and wife, Lori, all of Coppell; three sisters, Retha Faye Duckworth of Weatherford, Gertha Lee Sears of Denison and Margaret Clark of Victoria; daughter-in-law, Lyncia Langdon of Waxahachie; six grandchildren and three great-grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by a son, J.T. Draper Jr.  
Memorials may be made to Home Hospice of Grayson County, P.O. Box 2306, Sherman, Texas 75091. 

Pauline Draper, 95, of Denison, Texas passed away on Monday, December 14, 2020.  She was born May 9, 1925 in Achille, Oklahoma, Services were held at Bratcher Funerl Home in Denison, Thursday morning, December 17, 2020. Graveside services followed at Cedarlawn Memorial Park in Sherman.