From the personal files of

Lena Stone Criswell

 

 

 

 

 

Surnames:  ERSKINE, WAMSLEY, BRATCHER, SPARKS, CRISWELL, STEVENS, MULINGHOUSE

 

MARLIN WEEKLY DEMOCRAT

Marlin, Falls Co., Texas

Thursday, February 11, 1988

 

Willie Mae Erskine

 

     Willie Mae Erskine, 89, of 810 Foster St., died Tuesday in a local hospital.

 

    Funeral services were at 10 a.m. Wednesday in Adams Funeral Chapel.  The Rev. A. A. Bratcher officiated.  Burial was in Calvary Cemetery.

 

    Mrs. Erskine was born Jan. 31, 1899 in the Tidwell-Pleasant Grove community of Thornton, the daughter of William Sparks and Alice Steele Sparks.

 

    She married Thomas Ellsberry Criswell in 1915 and the couple farmed and ranched in the Odds community of Falls County.  Mr. Criswell died in 1948.  In 1955, she married Lycurgus R. (Curg) Erskine.  Mr. Erskine died in 1983.

 

    Mrs. Erskine had resided in Marlin since 1957 and was a member of the First Presbyterian Church.

 

    Survivors include two sons, T. E. Criswell, Jr. of Marlin and Billy Criswell of Yoakum; three grandchildren and four great-grandchildren.

 

    Pallbearers were Earl Lehrmann, Clarence Lehrmann, Aubrey Stevens, Clint Mulinghouse, Thomas Criswell and Thomas M. Criswell, II.

 

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Note: Willie Mae should read Willia Mae –lsc