The Herald Democrat
October 10, 2013

WHITESBORO - Katherine Kanaman Tamplen Samples, 89, passed away Tuesday, October 8, 2013 at her home in Whitesboro, Texas, surrounded by her family. She battled scoliosis, congestive heart failure and dementia, but she triumphed in the end by earning her angel wings.

Katherine was born May 10, 1924 in Dallas, Texas to Roy and Maizie Kanaman. She grew up in Frisco, Texas with her two sisters and four brothers. She finished up her working career by retiring from Johnson & Johnson in Sherman. She was a talented seamstress and was excellent at doing needlepoint crafts. She loved working in the yard with her little dog, Dolly, her constant companion.

She is survived by her daughter (and "son") Martha and Wayne Chisum of Whitesboro, her granddaughter Cindy Chisum of Dallas, her brother and sister-in-law Jack and Nancy Kanaman of Campbell, Texas and many, many loving nephews and nieces.

She was preceded in death by her grandson, Jody Wayne Chisum, first husband, Eddie Tamplen, second husband, Wayne Samples, brothers,James Roy Kanaman, Robert Kanaman, Roger Kanaman, and sisters, Jean Kimberlin and Doris Hanis.

Funeral Services will be Friday at the First United Methodist Church at 2 p.m. with Rev. Ken Hildebrand officiating. Interment
will follow at Dixie Cemetery.

Pallbearers serving are Jimmy Bingham, Collin Kanaman, Jerry Hall, Robert Kanaman, J. R. Kanaman, James Chisum.

Meador Funeral Home is in charge of all the arrangements and the online registry may be signed at www.meadorfuneralhomes.com. The family will have a visitation time on Thursday, October 10, 2013 from 7 to 8 p.m. at the Meador Funeral Home in Whitesboro.

In lieu of flowers, the family requests donations be made to the First United Methodist Church of Whitesboro, or Grayson
County Home Hospice in Sherman, Texas.