Obituary: Mary Ellen "Mae" Eads,  November 19, 1983

Contributed by Brenda Scott Hines
July 2015
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The Bronte Enterprise, Coke County, November 25, 1983

Services for Mrs. Eads Held                                                                                                   

Mary Ellen "Mae" Eads, 94, of Bronte, a Comanche County native, died at 
9:30 a.m. November 19, 1983 at West Coke County Hospital in Robert Lee.  
Services were at 2:30 p.m., Monday at Bronte Church of Christ.                                                     

Ron Exum, minister, officiated assisted by A. D.  McCarty of the 
Primitive Baptist Church in Tennyson.  Burial was in Old Fort Chadbourne 
Cemetery in Coke County directed by Shaffer Funeral Home.                                                           

Born Mary Ellen Keith, May 15, 1889 in Comanche County, she married 
W. J. Eads Dec. 6, 1909 in Comanche. She moved to Coke County in 1925, 
and to Bronte in 1952. She was a member of the Primitive Baptist Church.                                                

Her husband, William Jesse Eads died Sept. 24, 1947.                                 

Survivors include a son, Jesse Jr. of Robert Lee; two daughters 
Mrs. Oscar (Pearl) Renshaw of Bronte and Mrs. Merle Barrett of Bronte; 
a brother, George Keith of De Leon; a sister, Mrs. Earl (Bessie) Clark 
of De Leon; two grandchildren, Jesse Eads III, Robert Lee, 
Mrs. Arnold (Jessie) Stout, Odessa; great-grand-daughter, Tara Stout, Odessa; 
daughter in Law, Willie Eads, Robert Lee, son-in-law Oscar Renshaw; 
and grandson-in-law, Arnie Stout.                                                                       

Pallbearers were; Royce Eads, Borger; Bob Eads, Fritch; J. Edward Eads, Austin; 
Bill Keith, Eastland; Ike Keith, De Leon, and Billy Joe Luckett, Bronte.

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