West
Hill Cemetery
Sherman, Texas
 Margie Kretsinger Shankles
21 July 1902 - 22 August 1994
Lee Musgrove Shankles
25 July 1901 - 31 March 1988
Lee M. Shankles, 86 year-old retired farmer and rancher and life
long resident of the Sherman area, died Thursday, 31 March 1988, at a Sherman
hospital.
Graveside services will be held at 11 a.m. Saturday in West Hill
Cemetery. The Rev. James W. Garrard of St. Stephen's Episcopal Church will
officiate and arrangements are by Dannel Funeral Home.
Mr. Shankles was born in Grayson County on July 25, 1901, a son of
James Marion and Ella Dunning Shankles, attended Oak Grove schools, and
married Margie Kretsinger on July 20, 1930 in Durant, Oklahoma.
He was a former director of Grayson County Farm Bureau and Sherman
Lions Club. For many years, he was a member of the Woods Street Church
of Christ, but at the time of his death he belonged to the St. Stephen's
Episcopal Church.
Surviving are his wife; sons, Douglas Shankles and James Shankles
both of Sherman; seven grandchildren and two great grandchildren.
Pallbearers will be Isaac Maxwell, T.L. Taylor, Pat Patterson, P.O.
Lawrence, Pete Hudgins and Bob Corely. Members and former members of the
Grayson County Farm Bureau directors will be honorary pallbearers.
The family will be at the funeral home from 7 to 8 p.m. Friday and
other times at the residence, 732 Westwood Drive.
Graveside services for Margie Kretsinger Shankles, 92 year old retired
Sherman educator, will be held at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday in West Hill Cemetrey.
She died Monday, 22 August 1994 at Heritage Country Manor.
The Rev. Francis Raffalovich of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in
Bonhan will officiate.
Dannel Funeral Home has charge of arrangements.
Mrs. Shankles was born, 21 July 1901, in Grayson County, the daughter
of Douglas and Mamie Bothe Kretsinger. She was a 1919 graduate of Denison
High School. She received a bachelor of arts degree from Southeastern and
a master of arts degree from Austin College. On July 20, 1930, she married
Lee Shankles in Durant, Oklahoma.
She taught school for more than 30 years in Denison, Southmayd and
Sherman. She was a member of Delta Kappa Gamma, St. Stephen's Episcopal
Church and Texas A&M Aggie Mother's Club. She was past president of
the Retired Teacher's Association. She was a member of the Wilson N. Jones
Ladies Auxiliary and served as a pink lady.
Pallbearers will be David Bell, Judd Bell, John McCullogugh, Vic
Penton,Jr., Jimmy Shankles Jr., Isaac Maxwell, Bob Corley and Clayton Fulton.
Among her survivors are her sons, Douglas Shankles and James Shankles,
both of Sherman; brother, Jack Kretsinger of Sherman; sisters, Sara Williams
of Sherman; Mary Fogelman of Irving and Irene Shatto of Montrose, Colorado;
seven grandchildren and three great grandchildren.
Memorial may be made to the Wilson N. Jones Auxiliary, 500 N. Highland,
Sherman 75090; or to St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, 401 S. Crockett, Sherman,
75090.
The family will be at the funeral home from 7 to 8 p.m. Tuesday.
 Bettty Shankles21 January 1935 - 15 April 1950GIRL, 15, DIES IN AUTO CRASH
~ BETTY SHANKLES
McKinney, Texas
April 15, 1950
Miss Betty Shankles, 15 year old student at Southmayd School was
killed Saturday afternoon in an automobile accident one mile south of Anna.
She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Lee Shankles of Route 3 Sherman.
Miss Shankles was riding in a car which collided with a truck. Others
in the car were Mrs. V.W. Pinton of Sherman, Mrs. C.N. McAlister of Southmayd
and Miss Doris Fox of Dorchester. None were seriously injured.
Funeral services for Miss Shankles were held Monday at 2 p.m. at
the First Baptist Church at Sherman. The Rev. Don Bergeron, pastor of the
Hagerman Baptist Church,conducted. The Rev. W. I. Barnett of Ector assisted.
Pallbearers were Bobbie Ferguson, Albert Hames, Roy Hames, Ray Hill,
Augustine Esquabel, Lawrence Terry, Lavelle Terry and Junior Gill. Burial
was in West Hill Cemetery, directed by Waldo Funeral Home of Sherman.
Her parents Mr. and Mrs. Lee Shankles and two brothers, Douglas
and James M. Shankles survive.
Nelson's case will come before the grand jury session which opens
at McKinney next Monday.
West Hill Cemetery
Susan Hawkins
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