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GARRETT, GLENN WILLIS

Surnames: GARRETT, HARGROVE, RAY, DIXON, FRANKS, THOMAS, JONES, SCOTT, MCKELROY

Glenn Willis Garrett, b. September 28, 1906 at Stranger, Falls County, Texas, d. March 19, 1979 and buried in Stranger Cemetery-was a son of Leonard Lenore and Lucy Carrol ("Carl" Hargrove) Garrett. On October 21, 1929 in the Garrett at Stranger, Glenn was married by Reverend Robert R. Crockett, Cumberland Presbyterian minister, to Ruby Elnora Ray, b. October 12, 1915 in Alabama-a daughter of Andrew Jackson and Fannie Emma (Dixon) Ray of Alabama who had settled in Stranger, Falls County, Texas.

Glenn and Elnora lived on the farm at Stranger all their lives, moving in with his parents after his father suffered a stroke. The two-story burned in 1953, and the couple built a new bungalow on the site of the older home. Glenn and Elnora were the parents of five children-four living to adulthood.

Garland Ray Garrett, b. October 28, 1933, moved to Clute, Texas where he married Sue Franks.

Donald Glenn Garrett, b. February 15, 1935, d. December 7, 1935 and buried in Garrett Cemetery at Stranger.

Janniece Carolyan Garrett, b. February 12, 1937-married John Edward Thomas, had four children, and now resides in Temple, Texas.

Linda Gale Garrett, b. June 17, 1942-married first to Stephen Hardy Jones of the Fairview Community, Limestone County, Texas, and had three children: Rhonda Gayle Jones, b. August 28, 1962; Stephen Randall Jones, b. November 7, 1963; and Brian Keith Jones, b. June 11, 1970. Linda has been employed by the Marlin National Bank for many years. She married second to G. L. Scott, and they reside in Marlin, Texas.

Jerry Lynn Garrett, b. November 20, 1944 in Marlin, Texas-married Janis McKelroy-a daughter of James McKelroy of Kermit, Texas. Jerry worked at Marlin Mills, and farms and ranches at Stranger, where he resides in his own near his mother. They have two children: Leonard Ray Garrett, b. April 16, 1969 in Waco, Texas; and Mistie Lynn Garrett, b. February 2, 1983.

Glenn Willis Garrett was reared in the Presbyterian denomination, while Elnora (Ray) Garrett continues in the Baptist denomination in which she was reared. She remains at the Garrett at Stranger.

Copyright Permission granted to Theresa Carhart for printing these bio of these Falls County Families to this Web page.
"Families of Falls County," compiled and edited by the Falls County Historical Commission, page 170, column 2.

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