Obituaries:  Ray Cowart, Sabine Parish       C-630
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Dec 20, 1989
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net


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Ray Cowart

  Services for Ray Cowart, 83, of Diboll, Texas, were held at 10
a.m., Tuesday, at the Gipson Funeral Home Chapel, with Rev. Dock
Lazarine, Rev. Van Harris, and Rev. Buster Grigg officiating.
Interment followed in the Huntington Cemetery.

  Mr. Cowart was born December 17, 1906, in Many, and died
December 9, in Lufkin, Texas. Mr. Cowart was a truck driver for
Peco Oil Company for fifteen years. He had lived in Diboll for
the past five years, and lived in Huntington most of his life. He
was a member of the First Baptist Church in Diboll.

  Survivors include his wife, Savelia Cowart of Diboll; sons and
daughters-in-law, Charles and Ruth Cowart of Lufkin, Rev. Amos
and Nell Cowart of Elkhart; daughter and son-in-law, Martha and
Truman Hall of Huntington; sister, Beulah Wooley of Lufkin; half
brother, Truman Cowart of San Antonio; nine grandchildren; and
five great grandchildren; step daughters, Maxine Cloudy of
Nacogdoches, Gwen Whitfield of Deweyville, and Yvonne Huff of
Orange; step sons, Billy Ray Marze of Deweyville, and C. V. Marze
of Lufkin; sixteen step grandchildren.

  Pallbearers were his grandsons and grandsons-in-law. Steve
Cowart, Elton Grimes, David Cowart, David Miracle, Richard Hall,
and Harold Kendrick.

  Gipson Funeral Home, directors.