OBITUARY:  Cora Lois Craddock Perkins, 20 Nov 1983 - Coke Co, TX

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Robert Lee Observer, Nov. 1983

Services Held Nov. 22 For Mrs. Perkins

Cora Lois Craddock Perkins died on Sunday, Nov. 20, 1983, in Wichita
Falls.

Memorial Services were held Tuesday, Nov. 22, in the First United
Methodist Church with burial following in a Wichita Falls cemetery.

Mrs. Perkins, 96, was born on Feb. 8, 1887 in McLennan County.  She
came to Coke County in 1890 with her parents, the late S. S. (Uncle
Sink) and Mary Elizabeth (Scarborough) Craddock, who pioneered at
Sanco.

She was an early day school teacher in the area and was married to 
J. J. Perkins in Midland on March 27, 1918.  He pre-deceased her on
Sept. 15, 1960.

Mrs. Perkins was a well-known philthropist.  Two of her favorite
projects were the Theological Seminary at SMU and the Methodist
Children's Home in Waco.

Her husband and son-in-law were the founders of the Perkins-Prothro
Gas & Oil Properties near Silver.

Her survivors include one daughter, Mrs. Charles (Elizabeth) Prothro
of Wichita Falls; four grandchildren; ten great-grandchildren; one
great-great-grandchild; one sister, Mrs. Charles (Vela) Briscoe of
Grandview; and many nieces and nephews, including Mrs. T. M. Wylie
Jr. of Robert Lee.