ERSKINE, MRS. CLINTON

Surnames:  ERSKINE, SMITH, HARRELL, MOORE, SAXON, JACOBS, CRISWELL, DURHAM.

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MRS. ERSKINE
OF ODDS AND
MARLIN, DIES

       Mrs. Clinton Erskine of Odds died in a Marlin hospital at 11:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 11.  She had been in declining health and she and her husband had moved to 309 1/2 Chambers Street in Marlin last February, in order to be nearer medical treatment.  She was 74 years old.
       Funeral services will be held at 2 p.m. Friday, at the chapel of Adams Funeral with burial in Criswell Cemetery.  The Rev. Jack Smith, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Groesbeck, will officiate.
       She is survived by her husband, one son, J. W. Erskine of Waco; one daughter, Mrs. Charlie Harrell of Houston; three sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Moore and Mrs. Jay Saxon, of Marlin, and Mrs. Wyatt Jacobs of Rising Star; three grandchildren, James Harrell of Houston, Jeanette Harrell of Kountze, and Barbara Erskine of Waco.
       Mrs. Erskine was the former Miss Bessie Mae Criswell, a daughter of T. L. Criswell and Mary Catherine Durham Criswell.  She was married to Clinton Erskine on Nov. 28, 1912, at Odds and the couple continued to live in that community.
       She was a member of the extinct Locust Grove Baptist Church at Odds.

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Note: Date of death was May 11, 1966

Submitted by
Lena Stone Criswell