Obituaries:  Willie J. Aten, Sabine Parish       A-350
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 25, 1949
Submitted by: Tammy Larche-Smith
              tammy@cp-tel.net


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The Sabine Index - Willie J. Aten

  25 Feb 1949 - Funeral rites for Willie J. Aten, age 75 years,
who died in Montgomery hospital, Conroe, Texas Sunday, Feb. 14 at
8 p.m. after a lengthy illness, were held from First Methodist
church, Converse, at 2:30 p.m. with Rev. H. T. Isgitt, pastor,
officiating assisted by Rev. Jerry Schmucker, pastor Converse
Baptist church, and Rev. S. M. Mullkey, pastor Zwolle Baptist
church.

  Mr. Aten, a native of Sabine parish, was the son of the late
W. M. Aten and the late Mrs. Nan Tyler Aten. He was a member of
Bayou Scie Methodist church and was loved by all who knew him.

  Surviving are his wife, Mrs. Ada Chandler Aten; four sons,
Woodrow W. Aten, Waynesboro, Miss., Rayford of Conroe, Texas,
Bill of Slaten, Texas, Rufus of Hobbs, N. M., six daughters, Mrs.
Katie Clary, Clovis, N. M., Mrs. Pearl Jordon, Conroe, Texas,
Mrs. Ida Russell, Herlong, Calif., Mrs. Thelma Tatum, Converse,
Mrs. Opal Shoalmire, Waynesboro, Miss., Mrs. Lois Hill, Cleburne,
Texas, three sisters, Mrs. Ellen Russell, Bayou Scie, Mrs. Mary
Brown, Mrs. Burt Reid, Lamesa, Texas; four grandchildren and six
great-grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were nephews; Wilbert Russell, Hearold
Russell, Tilmon Russell, Jack Brown, Riley Brown, Harmon Brown.

  Interment was in Bayou Scie cemetery under direction
Drewitt funeral home, Mansfield.