Collin Co., TX - Obits: L.J., Mrs. Lois Kathryn, Patricia Kathryn Wallis
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        McKinney (Collin Co., TX) Courier Gazette 19 Aug 1954 pg. 6
L.J. Wallis, Mrs. Lois Kathryn Wallis, baby daughter, Patricia Kathryn Wallis

Funeral Services Friday for Victims of Climax Shooting. Funeral services for
L.J. Wallis, Mrs. Lois Kathryn Wallis and baby daughter, Patricia Kathryn
Wallis, will be held Friday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the Baptist Church at
Princeton, conducted by the pastor, Rev. Arthur L. Fineout.

Burial for Mr. Wallis will be in the Princeton Cemetery while Mrs. Wallis and
infant will be buried in the Thompson Cemetery at Copeville. Turrentine-Jackson
Mortuaary has charge of arrangements.

The three met their deaths Wednesday morning when Wallis fired a shot from a
.22 calibre pistol which killed his daughter-in-law, Mrs. Wallis and her baby
daughter. He then turned the gun on himself.

Wallis is survived by his wife, Mrs. L.J. Wallis of Route 1, Princeton; two
sons, Earl Ray Wallis of Princeton; J.W. Wallis of McKinney; two daughters,
Mrs. Earl Nix and Mrs. Sammy Dotson, both of Princeton; a brother, Oscar Wallis
of New Mexico; a sister, Mrs. Jewel Turner of Ft. Worth, and six grandchildren.

Mrs. Wallis was a native of Collin County. She is survived by her husband, Earl
Ray Wallis and a 2-year-old son, Michael Earl Wallis, both of Princeton; her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Arch Nall of Arlington; four brothers: Chester Nall of
Arizona; Aubrey Nall of Venus; Cecil and Douglas Nall of Arlington; and five
sisters, Mrs. S.E. Vansickle and Mrs. W.M. Claxton of Arizona; Mrs. R.Q. Boyd
of Dallas; Mrs. L.E. Warren of Venus and Miss Jeanette Nall of Arlington.