 West Hill Cemetery Sherman, Texas  William Foster Blanton 6 May 1874 - 27 February 1962 Jennie Wrenn Blanton 31 August 1974 - 27 December 1964 Wed 19 November 1896 Sherman Democrat February 27, 1962 FORMER GRAYSON TAX ASSESSOR W.F. BLANTON DIES Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in Dannel Funeral chapel here for W.F. Blanton, 88, of 310 W. Middleton, a former Grayson tax assessor-collector, and retired manager of the Kay Kimball farms. He died at 6:30 a.m. Tuesday in a Sherman hospital. Rev. Daniel J. Barron, pastor of the First Methodist Church, and Rev. Darold Morgan, pastor of the First Baptist Church officiated, burial was in West Hill Cemetery. E.J. Miller, Willard Tuttle, Frank Thompson, Leon Foshee, J.E. Jamison, and Forrest Peveto were pallbearers; C.F. Douglas, Joe Davenport, A.B. Case, G.M. Hennen, Joe O'Hagan were honorary pallbearers. Mr. Blanton was born May 6, 1874 near Whitewright. On November 19, 1896, he married Miss Jenny Wrenn in Ector. He had been manager of the Kimball farms for 20 years, and tax assessor for six years. He has been a city counselor. He was a member of the Methodist Church and the Woodmen of the World. Survivors are his wife; two sons, Tom R. Blanton of Sherman and O.L. Blanton of Fort Worth; two daughters, Miss Nadine Blanton and Mrs. W.W. Lay, both of Sherman; a brother, Ben F. Blanton of Denison; a sister, Mrs. Charlie Layman of Whitewright; two grandchildren, Bob Blanton of Sherman and Mrs. Charles Crabtree of Fort Worth; and four great-grandchildren. (Researcher's note: William Foster Blanton was the son of Thomas Jefferson Blanton and Elizabeth Jane Locke. His paternal grandparents were Josiah Blanton and Lucy Westbrook. Josiah was the son of Jeremiah Blanton and Sarah Rebecca Womack of Rutherford Co., NC.)  Sherman Democrat December 28, 1964 MRS. W.F. BLANTON, OLD SAVOY COLLEGE PUPIL, DIES AT 90 Funeral services were held at 2:30 p.m. Tuesday in the First Methodist Church here for Mrs. W.F. Blanton, 90, of 310 W. Middleton, one of the remaining students of Savoy College, who died at 9 a.m. Sunday in a Sherman hospital after a 2-1/2 year illness. Dr. Ed Barcus of Waco, formerly pastor of the church here, conducted the services. Burial was in Memorial Park Cemetery, directed by Dannel Funeral Home. Leon Foshee, Coy Wrenn, Johnny Morris, W.J. Tuttle and J.E. Jamison, all of Sherman, and Marvin Wrenn of Dallas were pallbearers. Mrs. Blanton was born August 31, 1874, in Savoy, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. R.W. Wrenn. On November 19, 1896, she married Mr. Blanton in Ector. He died in 1962. She was a member of the First Methodist Church, Woman's Society of Christian Service, the Garden Club and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Survivors are two sons, Tom Blanton of Sherman and O.L. Blanton of Fort Worth; two daughters, Miss Nadine Blanton and Mrs. W.W. Lay, both of Sherman; a brother, R.W. Wrenn and a sister, Mrs. W.M. May, both of Savoy; two grandchildren, Bob Blanton and Mrs. Charles F. Crabtree; and four great-grandchildren. (Researcher?s note: Rebecca Virginia Wrenn was the widow of William Foster Blanton, son of Thomas J. Blanton and Elizabeth Jane Locke.)  West Hill Cemetery Elaine Nall Bay ©2013 If you find any of Grayson County TXGenWeb links inoperable, please send me a message. |