Mexia Daily News - Sept 16, 2003 edition

Elmer Beene, Sr.

Elmer Beene, Sr., 95, longtime and well-known farmer/rancher and Tax
Assessor/Collector for 22 years in the Groesbeck Independent School District,
died Sunday in Parkview Regional Hospital.

Mr. Beene, born in Freestone County on Dec. 23, 1907, was reared in that county
and moved to Shiloh in 1936. He moved in 1941 to Groesbeck, where he lived
until moving to Mexia in 1996.

A member of the Groesbeck Church of Christ, Mr. Beene was preceded in death by
his parents, William Thomas and Mamie Beene, pioneer Freestone County
residents; by his wife of 76 years - Ima Jane Beene, who died in March of this
year; by four brothers - Ovin, Roy, Lester and Ernest Beene, and by two sisters
- Emma Lee Rogers and Ruth Pipkin.

Family visitation is scheduled for this evening from 6 until 8 o'clock at
Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home.

Memorials may be made to the Groesbeck Church of Christ or to the First Baptist
Church's Christian Life Center.

Funeral services will be conducted Wednesday morning at 10:30 in Groesbeck
Church of Christ, with Minister Richard Williams officiating. Burial will be in
Mexia Cemetery, under direction of Blair-Stubbs.

Surviving are a son and daughter-in-law, Elmer and Martha Beene, Jr., of Mexia;
a grandson, Brett Beene and wife Chana of Mexia; great-grandchildren, Blair and
Chet Beene of Mexia, and two sisters, Ruby Day of Fairfield and and Grace
Hester of Grand Prairie.

Pallbearers are Holloway Martin, Harold Nussbaum, Billie M. Beene, Billy Jim
Day, William Lee Hester, Ken Neyland, Horace Prather and Kent Kendall.