Obituary:  John F. Hamilton, 25 January 2002, Coke County, TX

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Submitted by Mary Love Berryman - marylove@tyler.net
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The Observer/Enterprise, 8 February 2002, Robert Lee, TX

HAMILTON

John F. Hamilton, 82, of Fredericksburg, died Friday, January 25, 2002
at Hill Country Memorial Hospital

Funeral services were held Tuesday, Jan. 29, at 2 pm in the Beckmann 
Funeral Home chapel with the Rev. D. G. McCoury officiating.  Marilyn
Jenkins was the organist and Kay Hamilton, the vocalist.  Interment
was in the Hill Crest Cemetery at Morris Ranch.

Hamilton was born on April 27, 1919 at Ranger, the son of John F.
Hamilton Sr. and Mollie Bertha Wilson Hamilton.  He married Dala Owen
in Robert lee in 1942 and she survives.

He was a retired electrician for a petroleum company and a U. S. Army
veteran of World War II.

In addition to his wife, he is survived by a son and daughter and 
their spouses, Ronnie and Melinda Hamilton and Linda and Hugh Wallace,
all of Fredericksburg.

Also surviving are six grandchildren and four great grandchildren;
two brothers and a sister, Claude B. Hamilton and his wife, Leona of
Roswell, NM; Melvin Hamilton and his wife, Sandy of Dexter, NM, and
Doris Shandley of Robert Lee.

He was preceded in death by a brother, Donald Hamilton and four sisters,
Jessie Mae Hurley, Faye Eubanks, Louise Gaddy and Lois Adams.

Pallbearers were Jerry Holden, Allan Hamilton, Dennis Davidson, 
Jonathan Wallace, Donald Holden and Terry Hamilton.

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