MRS. FANNIE LEE LOCKHART - Obituary - 15 September, 1969, Coke County, TX

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The Robert Lee Observer, 25 September 1969, Robert Lee, TX

Mrs. Fannie Lee McCutchen Lockhart, 86, died Sept. 15, in 
Alpine hospital after a long illness. Funeral services were held
at the First Baptist Church in Alpine last Wednesday, with burial
in Dreamland Cemetery at Canyon, on Thursday morning.
She was born Fannie Lee McCutchen, Nov. 5, 1882 at Camp
Colorado in Coleman County. She was the daughter of William Wiley
McCutchen and his wife, Hannah Elazabeth McCallister. The McCutchen
family had come to Texas from Larkinville, Ala., prior to settling
in Coke County where Mrs. Lockhart spent her girlhood.
She kept tax records for her father during his four years as
county tax assessor and was a bank employee prior to her marriage
to Edgar Lockhart, a teacher.

After marriage, Mrs. Lockhart and her husband lived in Sherwood,
Robert Lee, Bronte, Slyvester, Brownwood, Greenville, Marshall and
Canyon as well as spending four years at Haskell Institute in Lawrence,
Kans. Mr. Lockhart taught at West Texas State University in Canyon
from 1921-1941. He died Aug. 30, 1942, at Fort Sill, Okla., while
serving as a captain in the Finance Department, U. S. Army.
Mrs. Lockhart was a Baptist and a member of the American Legion
Auxiliary.

All of Mrs. Lockhart's four children survive her, including 
Mrs. Charles W. (Fay) Mays of Austin; Dr. William Edgar Lockhart, Jr.
of Alpine, with whom she had made her home the past 20 years; Col.
Vincent McCutchen Lockhart, presently serving in Saigon; and Mrs.
Lynna Lee Pettitt of Alpine. Also one brother, William Madison
McCutchen of Robert Lee; two sisters, Mrs. Claude Murtishaw of Bronte
and Mrs. Dean Childress of Mesa, Ariz., ten granchildren and 12 great
grandchildren.

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