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Olive
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Friday, April 28, 1944
pg. 6
Funeral services were
conducted Monday from the Short-Murray chapel
for William Gentry McMahan who died in a Dallas hospital
Saturday following an illness of several
months.
Interment was at Van
Alstyne with Rev. James Spivey, assisted by
Rev. John R. Stephens, assisting, officiating. At the
cemetery the Mason Order was in charge.
Mr. McMahan, who
resided at 413 West Heron, was born in
Spartanburg, South Carolina, October 14, 1883, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George McMahan. He moved to
Van Alstyne with his
parents when a small boy and lived there until
a young man. He moved from McKinney to
Denison. He was married to Lina Belle
Painter in Durant, January 13, 1929. He was a
member of the Calvary Baptist Church here and
of St. John's Lodge No. 51, A.F. & A.M., in
McKinney. He has been an operator for
the Texas Electric Railway the past 30 years.
Survivors are the
widow; 2 sons, Bill McMahan and Bob McMahan,
both of Denison; one step-daughter, Mrs. Fay Renfro of Long
Beach, California; 5 brothers, George and
Allen McMahan,
both of Van Alstyne; J.W. McMahan of Denver,
Colorado; J.M. McMahan of Clarksville; and E.B.
McMahan of Bakersfield, California; 2 sisters,
Mrs. J.W. Saunders of Hollywood, California; and Mrs.
Jewell Thompson of New Orleans, Louisiana; and
one grandson.
