Submitted by:

Robert L. Haddock

 

 

 

Surnames: STEWART, HALE, KILLEN, WRIGHT

 

 

 

TEMPLE DAILY TELEGRAM

Temple, Bell Co., Texas

Friday, April 11, 1947

 

 

TINA STEWART MEETS DEATH IN ACCIDENT

                                                                            

 

     Swift tragedy struck the Extension Service headquarters staff on April 8, when District Agent Tina Stewart was killed almost instantly by a freight train near the Missouri Pacific Railroad station, College Station, shortly before 8 p.m. She was born at Eddy, Falls County, April 25, 1905, and had been in the employ of the Extension Service nearly 11 years.

 

     Miss Stewart, with two companions, had driven to the station to pick up a passenger from the Southern Pacific Sunbeam, arriving at 7:54. They parked eastward, but near, the Missouri Pacific track. As nearly as events can be reconstructed, Miss Stewart, who was sitting in the front seat of the automobile, opened the door and stepped out as the Sunbeam entered the station. It is believed that the noise of the approaching train prevented Miss Stewart from hearing or observing the freight which was running parallel with the passenger train.

 

     Miss Stewart received her B. A. degree at Southwest State Teachers College, San Marcos, in 1936, after teaching school for 11 years. She also served as assistant superintendent in Falls County for the school year 1935-36. On September 1, 1936, she was appointed county demonstration agent for Bell Co., serving until March, 1944, when she was called to Extension Service headquarters at A. and M. College to serve for four months as emergency state was food assistant. Returning to her former position in July of that year, she was recalled to the headquarters staff on March 1, 1946, and assigned as assistant district agent. On September 1, she was promoted to district agent and assigned to Extension District 12, comprising a group of counties in the Rio Grande Valley area. On April 1, last, she was transferred to the corresponding position in Extension District 10, with headquarters at College Station.

 

     She was a member of the Temple Business and Professional Women’s Club; Delta Kappa Gamma; American Economics Association, and the American Association of University Women.

 

     Miss Stewart was survived by her mother, Mrs. L. L. Stewart of Temple; two sisters, Mrs. Alma S. Hale, of Bay City, Matagorda County demonstration agent; and Mrs. Geo. Killen, Lampasas; and three brothers, Todd, of Temple; Grady, of Seguin; and Major L. L. Stewart of Carlisle, Penn.  Funeral services were heldat the Baptist Memorial Church in Temple, Texas, April 10.