Dallas Morning News
September 5, 1977

Samuel Douglas Purcell
Tioga, Texas - Funeral services for Samuel Douglas Purcell, 82, of Tioga, Grayson County, a retired farmer, will be held at 2 pm Monday in the Beck Funeral Chapel in Pilot Point, Denton County. Burial will be in the Tioga Cemetery. He died Saturday in a Denton hospital.