Typed by: Kay Ward


STONE, JAMES ELMER                Jan 7, 1987

Surnames: STONE, BRATCHER, MILLS, HEFELFINGER, WALTS, CADDELL, SMITH

James Elmer (Spot) Stone, 76, of Marlin died today in a local hospital.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. Thursday at Adams Funeral with the Rev. A.A. Bratcher officiating. Burial will be in Criswell Cemetery. Grandsons will be pallbearers.
Mr. Stone was born Jan. 29, 1910, in Limestone County, a son of William H. Stone and Alice Smith Stone. During his adult life, he engaged in farming and for several years he worked for the Falls County Road and Bridge Department. He was a Baptist.
He is survived by his wife, Ruth Stone; a daughter, Vernell
Mills of Mart; two sons, Gene Stone of Lorena and Nelson Stone of Mart; two stepdaughters, Rene Hefelfinger of New
Caney and Laverne Hefelfinger of Frankston; a stepson, Joe Walts Jr. of San Antonio; one brother, Kirby Stone of Del Rio; four sisters, Lillian Caddell of Sundown, Nettie Smith and Shirley Mae Stone, both of Mart, and Ola Fay Walts of
Bosqueville; 21 grandchildren and 22 great-grandchildren.
The Daily Democrat, Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, Jan 7, 1987
Page 10, column 1

Reprinted with permission, of The Marlin Democrat
Lois Cooper
P.O. Box 112
Marlin, Texas
76661