Obituary: George Russell, February 1973

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
Feb 2015
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San Angelo Standard Times, Tom Green County, February 13, 1973

Russell Services Set In Blackwell

George Russell, 82 died at Bronte County Hospital at 10 a.m. Monday 
after a long illness.                                                  

Services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday at First United Methodist 
Church in Blackwell with burial in Blackwell Cemetery under the 
direction of Newby Funeral Home of Bronte.                                                     

He was born Feb. 4, 1891 in Coke County. He was married to Willie Reaves 
Nov. 14, 1921 in Sweetwater.  He had lived in Bronte for the past four 
years and in Blackwell 30 years before moving to Bronte.  He had also 
been a resident of Winter's in the 1930's.  He was a retired stock 
farmer and a veteran of World War I.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. George Russell of Bronte; a daughter, 
Mrs. Billy Clark of Greenborough, N. C.; a son, Herman Craft of Temple; 
two brothers, Make Russell of Bronte and J. P. Russell of Sterling City; 
a sister Mrs. Betty McRorey of Blackwell;  three grand-children and 
one great-grandchild.


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