VAN ALSTYNE -  Services for Joseph Hugh Lovera of Tom Bean, 22-year-old Plano Post Office employee who died Saturday in McKinney as a result of an automobile accident, will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday in the Van Alstyne Catholic Church.
Rev. Speiser of Sherman will officiate and burial will be at Whitemound Cemetery, under the direction of Flesher Funeral Home.
Mr. Lovera was born in Texas, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Joseph Lovera, and was a member of St Mary’s Catholic Church in Sherman.
Surviving are his parents of Tom Bean; sisters, Charissa Lovera and Kim Lovera of Tom Bean; grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A.L. St. Clair of Sherman and Mrs. Joe Lovera of Strawn; and great grandparents, Mrs. Jewel St. Clair of Ardmore, Oklahoma and Mrs. Viola Bodisch of Durant, Oklahoma.
Pallbearers will be Jody Fraizer, Dale Brasher, Dudley St. Clair, Larry St. Clair, Robert St. Clair, Terry Jarvis, Dean Beaver and Rodney Ball.
Rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home chapel.
The family will be at the residence.
Published in the Sherman Democrat, 30 May 1988, Page A-15.

MARY LORETTA ST. CLAIR LOVERA
19 DECEMBER 1944  -  26 DECEMBER 1995

 

TOM BEAN – Mary Loretta Lovera of Tom Bean, 51, died 26 December 1995, in Wilson N. Jones Hospital.
Services will be held at 25:00p.m. 28 December 1995, in Holy Family Catholic Church, in Van Alstyne. Father Vogel will officiate and burial will be at White Mound Cemetery under the direction of Fletcher Funeral Home.
Mrs. Lovera was born 19 December 1944 in Tishomingo, Oklahoma. She was the daughter of Austin St. Clair and Dudley Mae Moon St. Clair and married Patrick Lovera on 5 October 1963 in Straw. She was a technician at Folgers and a Catholic.
Surviving are her husband, Patrick “Pat” Lovera of Tom Bean; daughters Charissa Burkhead of Denison and Michele Taylor and Kimbrly and Michelle Taylor of Sherman; parents of Sherman; sisters Brenda Sammann of Denton and Chiquita Poff of Carrolton; brothers, Robert St. Clair of Calera, Oklahoma, Dudley St. Clair of Sherman; and four grandchildren.
Rosary will be said at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Flesher Funeral Home Chapel.
The family will be at the residence in Tom Bean, Highway 2729.
Published in both the Sherman Democrat and Denison Herald on 27 December 1995