Ellis County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Stickeny, L M 1960 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Lynn . .@. August 2, 2006, 9:53 am The Dallas Morning News Dallas Morning News June 02, 1960 Last Rites Slated For L.M. Stickney Funeral services for Lewis M. Stickney of 6350 Saratoga Circle, vice-president and business manager of the Buckner Orphans Home and an active civic and church leader in Waxahachie before coming to Dallas six years ago, will be held at 2 pm Thursday n the Weiland-Merritt Funeral Chapel 2909 Live Oak Dr. W.A. Criswell will officiate. Burial will be in the Grove Hill Memorial Park. Mr. Stickney, 56, died Tuesday at his home after a brief illness. A native of New York, he was a 1920 graduate of the Westbrook Commercial Academy at Olean, Olean, NY. Later, through extension work, he earned a degree in accounting and was a member of the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants. Mr. Stickney came to Texas as an employee of The Texas Company of Port Arthur. The majority of his life was spent in Waxahachie where for eight years he was in the oil production and refining business. This included four years as US District Court receiver operating properties of the Waxahachie Gas Company. For four years he was a member of the Waxahachie City Council. Later he served as chairman of the City Charter Commission which was instrumental in winning approval of a council-manager form of city government. Mr. Stickney was a charter member of the Waxahachie Lions Club, organized in 1925. He served as secretary and president of the club and later as district governor of Lions District 2X, covering Northeast Texas. He was vice-president of the Texas Council of Governors of the club in 1941-42 and, in 1942, was acting chairman of the Texas delegation to the annual Lions convention in Toronto. At the time of death, Mr. Stickney was a member and life-time director of the Downtown Lions Club of Dallas. He was president of the Waxahachie Chamber of Commerce in 1936 and during World War II, was chairman of one of Ellis County's ration boards. He was also treasurer of the Ellis County chapter of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, director of the community chest, chairman of the Ellis County chapter of the American Red Cross, director of the Waxahachie Retail Merchants Association, a member of the Southern Gas Association and the American Gas Association and precinct chairman of the Republican Party. At the time of his death he was Ellis County Chairman of the OP/ In Waxahachie, where he was a member of the First Baptist Church, Mr. Stickney was church treasurer, president of the Men's Downtown Bible Class four years, general superintendent of the Sunday School for 16 years and president of the Men's Brotherhood. For more than 20 years he was a member of the board of deacons of the church and was board chairman at the time of his death. He also served as a member of the building committee during erection of two units of the educational building and as a member of the mission committee which assisted in organizing and developing two mission churches in Waxahachie. A member of the First Baptist Church of Dallas since 1954, Mr. Stickney was a deacon there and assistant superintendent of the adult Five Sunday School Department. He was also a director of the Buckner State Bank. Survivors are his wife; his mother, Mrs. Nora Stickney of West Clarksville, NY and a brother, Guy B. Stickney of Great Valley, NY. Pallbearers will be Joe Naughton, Ed Burleson, Jack Eastham, W.M. Hutton, C.J. McManus and Jake Rowland. File at: http://files.usgwarchives.net/tx/ellis/obits/s/stickeny204gob.txt This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.org/txfiles/ File size: 4.0 Kb