Coryell Co. Tx - Obit for Artie Spiers

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   Gatesville  Messenger  Feb. 12, 1980 ARTIE SPIERS, RETIRED BRICKMASON,
   DIES HERE
   Artie  E.  Spiers,  76, of Gatesville died Sunday evening at the local
   hospital after a lengthy illness. He was a retired brickmason.
   Funeral  services  were  held  at  10 a.m. Tuesday at Marwitz Brothers
   Funeral  Home  chapel  in  Gatesville and were conducted by Rev. James
   Pool.  Graveside  services  were  at 3 p.m. Tuesday in Hanna Cemetery,
   Cherokee.
   Mr.  Spiers,  son of the late Mr. and Mrs. Artie Ward Spiers, was born
   June  6  1904, in Coryell County. At the age of five he moved with his
   parents  to  Cherokee, where he resided most of his life. For the last
   six years he had been a resident of The Rotunda nursing home here.
   He was a member of the Baptist Church in Cherokee.
   Survivors  include  a  daughter,  Mrs. Arte E. Castelli of Tuscaloosa,
   Ala.;  two  sisters,  Mrs.  Zelma  Dean of Buchanan and Mrs. Sammy Lou
   Seah-bailey  of  Kountze;  one brother, Armo Spears of Dallas; and two
   grandchildren.