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Funeral Rites Held, For Pioneer Womanof County SundayFuneral rites for Mrs. I. Wimberley, aged 80, were held from the Hardin Chapel on North Graham street Sunday afternoon at 2:30 o’clock, her death having occurred suddenly Thursday, Dec. 8, at 7:15 p. m. at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Earl Savage, in the Rocky Point community.Although Mrs. Wimberley had been in declining health for the past several months due to the infirmities of old age, her death was entirely unexpected and came as a great shock to her family.The funeral service, conducted by Rev. W .C. Bramlett, Baptist minister and friend of the family, was attended by a large concourse of friends and relatives of the deceased. Interment was made in the Allard cemetery, beside the graves of her children and her husband who preceded her in death 21 years.Mrs. Wimberley was a devoted Christian, having been converted early in life. She was was a member of the Baptist church with which she united twenty years ago.She was born Sept. 13, 1852, in Missouri, and lived there until several years after her marriage when she and her husband came to Texas. They first settled on a farm on the Paluxy River near Rock Church, later moving to the Rocky Point community a few miles east of StephenviJle where she made her home until a year ago when she went to live with her daughter.Mrs. Wimberley had been in thecounty 60 years, 84 years of which time she had spent on the Rocky Point farm which her husband bought when they left the Rock Church community.She was the mother of fifteen children, six of whom, died in infancy and one at the age of seven years. The eight surviving children are Mrs. George Hinton. En-cino, N. Mex.; Mrs. John Norris. Afton: Mrs. J. S. Britton and Mrs. T. Earl Ravage, Steubenville; J Alonzo Wimberlev. Dallas; E. S. Wimberley, Washington, D. C.;Grover Wimberley, Brawley, CaL; Lewis Wimberley, Stephenville.Besides her children Mrs. Wimberley is survived by thirtv-six grandchildren and nineteen great grandchildren.Only four of the children, Mrs. Savage, Mrs. Britton, Lewis Wimberley, all of Stephenville, and Grover Wimberley of California,were here for the funeral.•With the football season over the hot stove baseball league will go into session. Any time of the year is a good time for a baseball trade.Geraniums grown experimentally in Florida were found to yield oils as fragrant for perfume purposes as those produced abroad.There' is a man in New York who makes a living selling sawdust to be used as bar-room dust in homes with speakeasy rooms in the cellar.Mrs. 'La Pe Bahda—Such an exquisite gown! How much is it? Clerk—Fifty dollars.Mrs. La De Bahda—It’s exactly what I have been looking for. I believe I will take it, although the price—Clerk—Pardon roe. madam, I’vemade a mistake—this is marked $15 instead of $50.Mrs. La De Dahda—Oh, I see. Well, the gown doesn’t suit me. Show me something better.Mr, and Mrs. Harry Benson were Fort Worth visitors Monday.Use This Laxativemade from plantsThedford’s Black-Draught la made from plants that grow In thaground, like the garden vegetables you eat at every meal. NATURB has put Into these plants an activemedicine that stimulates the bowels to act—Just as Nature put the materials that sustain your body Into the vegetable foods you eat.In Black-Draught you have a natural laxative, free from synthetio drugs. It* us* does not make you have to depend on cathartic chemical drugs to get the bowels to act daily. Note vou ran net Mack-Draupht It the ferrn of a SYRUP, for Ckildbsm.
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Stephenville Empire Tribune
Stephenville, Texas, US
Fri, Dec 16, 1932
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