OBITUARY:   Rev. Horace Lee Bloodworth, 27 August 1980 - Coke County, TX

Copied from the Josephine Bird Collection, West Texas Collection, 
Angelo State University - 2 September 2003

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Sep. 5, 1980, Robert Lee Observer, PAGE 3

Service for Rev. Bloodworth Friday

The Rev. Horace Lee Bloodworth, 87, a pioneer citizen of Silver, 
died at 5:30 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 27, at West Coke County Hospital 
where he had been a patient since the previous Friday.

Funeral services were held at, 2 p.m. Friday at Robert Lee Baptist
Church with the Rev. Roy Epperson, pastor, officiating assisted by 
the Rev. Ray M. Sparks, a retired minister of San Angelo and a 
former pastor of the Silver Baptist Church.

Burial was at McKenzieville Cemetery near Silver under the direction
of §haffer Funeral Home.  Lonnie Bloodworth of Silver, a grandson,
conducted graveside rites.
 
Horace Lee Bloodworth was born July 3, 1893, at Sulphur Springs,
(Jackson County) Alabama, son of William and Almeda (Wright) 
Bloodworth.  He came with his family to Texas at the age of three.
In 1908 he came to Coke County and had lived at Silver since except
for four years in Abilene while attending Hardin-Simmons University 
and one year at Woody.

He and Mary A. Walker were married Dee. 15, l912, at Silver.  They 
were active in community organizations.  He was a retired Baptist 
minister and a retired stockfarmer.  Licensed to preach in 1912 and
ordained to the ministry in 1916, he pastored churches at Silver,
Sanco, Buford, Woody, Bethel, Fairview and Spade as well as filling
in at other churches when needed and holding meetings in many 
different places.  He retired from the ministry in 1951.  He was a
member of the Silver Baptist Church, was a former member of the 
Silver School board and served for several years on the Coke County
Hospital Board at Robert Lee.

Survivors include his wife, Mary, of the home: four sons, Allen Blood-
worth, Raymond Bloodworth, and Clayton Bloodworth all of Silver and
Ernest Bloodworth of San Angelo; three daughters, Mrs. Waymon (Ruby)
Robertson and Mrs. J. C. (Jewell) Wallace Jr., both of Robert Lee, 
and Mrs. Willie (Daisy) Price of Akron, Colo.; 21 grandchildren
and 15 great-grandchildren.

He was preceded in death by a son, L. C., March 11, 1930

Grandsons served as pallbearers and included Carl Bloodworth of
Sundown, Charles Bloodworth of Kermit, Ed Price of Littleton, Colo.,
Jacky Wallace of Abilene, Buddy Wallace of Robert Lee and Clay 
Bloodworth of Silver.

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the Coke County TXGenWeb Archives.