 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas  Cecil Bivins R.O.T.C. 25 September 1900 - 13 May 1946 Pearl B. Marks 8 February 1872 - 30 November 1952 The Whitewright Sun
Thursday, May 16, 1946 pg. 5 CECIL O. BIVINS Sherman - Cecil O. Bivins, 46, of 14 West Jones, an invalid the past 28 years of a spinal injury suffered in a football game at Burleson College, Greenville, died Monday at 5:10 a.m. at Muskogee, Oklahoma, where he was visiting relatives. Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at the Waldo Funeral Home chapel, Rev. Claud Johnston, pastor of the North Park Baptist Church, officiating, assisted by Homer Thompson, assistant pastor of the First Baptist Church. Burial was in Memorial Park. Bivins was born September 25, 1899 [sic], at Bells. He attended Sherman High School; Austin College; and Burleson College in Greenville. The football tragedy that left him an invalid occurred while he was in ROTC training during the first World War. A number of benefit football games have been played in Sherman in his honor. Surviving are his mother, Mrs. Pearl Bivins Marks; and a half sister, Mrs. Pauline Marks of Dallas. West Hill Cemetery Elaine Nall Bay ©2018 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message |