Ellis County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Whitfill, Martin Robert 1940
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Ennis Daily News  
From Scrapbook of Helen Louis Whitfill Fowler

(14 FEB 1941)

M.R. Whitfill
Age 80, Died at
Alma Friday

Martin Robert Whitfill, 80, died at his home in Alma Friday afternoon at 4:40
o'clock, following a brief illness.  Mr. Whitfill was born July 15, 1860 at Big
Clifty, KY and came to Texas with his parents William and Margaret Durbin
Whitfill in 1875.  They first settled in Johnson county, but in two years moved
to a farm at Alma.  Mr. Whitfill was engaged for a time in farming and married
Miss Margaret Lena Curlin also a member of a Texas pioneer family,  July 29,
1884 at the Immaculate Conception Church in Corsicana by Father Theon.

He later owned and operated a store in Alma for fifty years until he moved to
Lockney, Floyd county, where he became a large land owner.

Mr. Whitfill returned to Alma in 1930 and made his home there until his death. 
He is widely known throughout the state and is survived by his wife, three sons
and five daughters.  Seven of them were with him and a son, Festus Whitfill of
Lockney, who has been ill, will arrive.

The children are J. R. Whitfill of Pottsboro,   J.W. Whitfill of Phoenix, AZ, 
Festus Whitfill,  Mrs. J.R. Langley, and Mrs. R. C. Wilson of Lockney,  Mrs.
C.L. Simmons of Kermit and Mrs. S.A. Whitfill and Mrs. R.M. Whitfill of Alma. He
is also survived by two brothers, Ben Whitfill of Lockney and Louis Whitfill of
Ardmore, OK; three sisters, Mrs. Rebecca Newman of Washington DC,  Mrs. Mary
Rutherford of Rice and Mrs. Druscilla Harrell of Alma.

Mr. Whitfill is also survived by forty-five grandchildren and fifteen
great-grandchildren. Funeral services will be held at the St. Vincent de Paul
Church in Alma at 9 o'clock Monday morning with Monsigner V. Graffeo officiating.

Burial will be in St. Joseph's cemetery in Ennis with H.C. Wippern in charge of
arrangements.

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Last Sad Rites
For M. Whitfill
Held This Morning

Funeral services for M. Whitfill were held at Alma at 9
o'clock at the St. Vincent de Paul Church on Monday morning
with Monsignor V. Graffeo officiating.

Interment was made in the St. Joseph's cemetery at Ennis
with H.C. Wippern in charge. Pallbearers were Mr. Whitfill's
grandsons, Kenneth Whitfill of College Station, Leslie
Whitfill of Phoenix, Ariz, James Simmons of Kermit, Linton
Whitfill, James Whitfill, and Wendell Whitfill of Alma.

Out of town relatives and friends here for the funeral were
Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Whitfill of plainview; Mrs. Mary
Rutherford of Rice; J.W. Whitfill and Leslie Whitfill of
Phoenix, Ariz; Mr. and Mrs. C.L. Simmons, James and Kenneth
Simmons of Kermit,  J.R. Whitfill, Billie Joe, Ray and Jerry
of Pottsboro; Mr. and Mrs. Ted Romain of Denton, Mrs. R.C.
Wilson, Mrs. J.R. Langley and Cecilia Langley, Festus
Whitfill and Mr. and Mrs. D.V. Whitfill and Margaret of
Lockney; Elisha Durbin of Rice, Miss Adele Whitfill, Mr. and
Mrs. J.W. Whitfill of Fort Worth, Mrs. J.C. Dale, Mrs. Joe
D. wright, Mr. and mrs. Chester Berry and Mrs. Nina Worthy
of Dallas, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Breeding and Julian Curlin of
Ada, Okla; Mrs. Roxie Davis, Vashti and Arthur Reed of
Dallas, Mrs. INa Mays, Zeldon Brock of Tool, Mrs. Robert
McManus of Emhouse, Mrs. W.M. Williams of McKinney, Mr. and
Mrs. Hunter Carnes, Mrs. M. Harrison, Mrs. Joe Massengill,
Mrs. Eugene Besse, Mrs. Burls, Mrs. Myers, Mrs. Mary Patton,
Claude Langley, Mrs. W. Stewart and Mrs. M.B. Williams of
Ennis, Jim Kelly, Ed Kelly, Miss Gertrude Kelly and Charles
Kelly of Sherman, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Chenosky of Corsicana,
Mr. and Mrs. C.B. Fraze of Garrett, Mildred Baker, Mrs.
Raymond Busse of Ennis, Mr. and Mrs. W.T. Langley of Ennis,
Mrs. J.D. Page of Rice, Mr. and Mrs. Proctor Hines of
Alsdorf, Mr. and Mrs. W.M. Cave of Garrett.


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