Obituaries:  Dessie Bea McElroy, Sabine Parish       M-246
Source:  Sabine Index, Many, La., Feb 22, 1995
Submitted by: Carl Dilbeck
              carlrad@earthlink.net




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Dessie Bea McElroy

  Graveside services for Dessie Bea McElroy, 87, will be held at 2
p.m., on Feb. 17, at Progress Cemetery, Cumberland Presbyterian
Church, under the direction of Warren Meadows Funeral Home.

  Ms. McElroy was the daughter of the late John and Jimma McElroy
of Pleasant Hill.

  Ms. McElroy passed away of Feb. 6, in Dallas. She was born in
Mitchell, and was the fifth of nine children.

  Ms. McElroy was a graduate of Pleasant Hill High School, and
Draughn Business College. She worked in Minden, and Shreveport,
and Kansas City, Mo., before moving to Dallas in 1953. She
retired in 1974, from E. B. Germany & Sons, an oil and gas firm,
where she was an accountant for 17 years. Ms. McElroy was a
member of Highland Park United Methodist Church, Dallas.

  Ms. McElroy is survived by three sisters, Loraine Weedon of
Austin, Willa Mae Simpson, and Margaret Phillips of Dallas; one
brother, Walter L. McElroy of Tyler; and twenty nieces and
nephews.