Obituary: Milton Eugene Lasswell, Feb. 4, 1958

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
July 2015
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The Bronte Enterprise, Coke County, February 7, 1958

Funeral Services Held Wednesday for M. E. Lasswell                                                

Funeral services for Milton Eugene Lasswell were conducted at 4 p.m. 
Wednesday at the First Methodist Church in Bronte.  Mr. Lasswell died 
at 11:50 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 4 at his home here. 

The Rev. Lin Loeffler, pastor of the local Methodist Church conducted 
the funeral services.  He was assisted by the Rev. Douglas Brown, pastor 
of the First Baptist Church here.  Burial was in Fairview cemetery 
under direction of Clift Funeral Home of Bronte.

Pallbearers were grandsons, Royce Fancher, Bobby Lasswell, Keith Lofton, 
Lonnie Forman, Binks McCutchen, Edsel McDaniel, Lee Craig and 
Kenneth Bradbury.                                                                                                                          

Survivors include his wife; two sons, Lum Lasswell of Bronte and 
Melvin Lasswell of Sweetwater; three daughters, Mrs. Rome (Laura) Richards, 
Mrs. Floyd (Elsie) Fancher and Miss Myrtle Lasswell, all of Bronte; eight 
grand children and 3 great great grandchildren, three sisters, 
Mrs. Anna Breedlove of Lubbock; Mrs. Fannie Calloway of Maybell, Colo., 
and Mrs. Elsie Greathouse of Sweetwater.               

Mr. Lasswell was a pioneer of the Bronte area, and remembered many 
incidents of early day life in Coke County.  He was born October 15, 1877 
in Bosque county, the son of the late George Columbus and 
Margaret Allen Lasswell. He was married Feb. 22, 1899, to Miss 
Mary Elizabeth Pruitt.  Mr. Lasswell was a stock farmer and enjoyed 
gardening as a hobby.

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