Denton County, TX - Obituary - R.W. Denton


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Denton Record Chronicle
January 20, 1939

R. W. Renfro
Dies in Denton

Ross W. Renfro, 59, 721 South Elm Street, died in his home at 5:30 p.m. 
Thursday of paralysis.  Funeral services were to be held Friday at 4 p.m. 
in the home conducted by Rev. R. E.  Ford of Denton and Rev. E. J.  Rogers 
of McKinney, with burial in the I.O.O.F. cemetery.

Renfro was married to Miss Dena Jones Feb 4, 1912, who with two children, 
Joe B. Renfro of Denton and Mrs. Lois Trice of Haskell, survive.  He is also 
survived by seven sisters and brothers, Mmes.  Myrtle Durham and Lorena 
Blue of Alvarado, Mrs. Della Murphy of Crosbyton, Mrs. Mattie Jacobs and 
Bill Renfro of Sweetwater, Oscar Renfro of Kerens, and Sam Renfro of 
Holtville, Calif., and his mother Mrs. S.J. Renfro of Denton.

Renfro, a native Texas was born Aug. 31, 1879 in Bristol, and had lived in 
this county since 1907.  He had been an employee of Texas State College 
for Women, Denton, Texas for the past 20 years.