Submitted by Lena Stone Criswell

WHATLEY, IRENE

Marlin Weekly Democrat - Thursday, January 21, 1988

Irene Whatley, 64, of Marlin, died Tuesday in a Waco hospital. Funeral services were at 10 a.m. Friday at Adams Funeral Home. The Rev. Curtis Holland officiated. Burial was in Hi11crest Cemetery . Mrs. Whatley was born April 6, 1923 in Goose Creek, the daughter <i Mr. and Mrs. William Elza Jolmson. She married Oscar James Whatley Jr. April 22, 1939 in Bremond. The couple moved to Marlin in 1954 when Mr .Whatley was em- I ployed with Dresser Minerals at Kosse. Mr .Whatley died April 24, 1979. Mrs. Whatley was a Baptist. Survivors include two sons, Jim Whatley of San Antonio and Tonuny Whatley of Marlin; three daughters, Ida Lois Wegwerth of Marlin, Joyce Faye Haverkamp of Waco and ! Beverly Ann Coffman of Hewitt; 14. ' Igrandchildren; and eight great- grandchildren.

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