OBITUARY: Mrs. Fannie Lee McCutchen Lockhart, 15 Sept 1969 - Coke County, TX Submitted by Becky Rogers 30 November 2004 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ***************************************************************** 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 Elizabeth McCallister. The McCutchen family had come to Texas from Larkinsville, 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, Sylvester, 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 grandchildren and 12 great grandchildren.