Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


(Submitted by Mike Pruitt on 16 May 2006)

Mexia Daily News newspaper - dated March 19, 1953: 
[Death Date: March 11, 1953]

Arrena "Irene" (Hall) Black

Funeral Services will be held at the Riddle Chapel in Mexia tomorrow at 3 p.m.
for Mrs. Arrena "Irene" (Hall) Black, 81, who died at the home of her son,
Elijah Black, in the Tehuacana Valley yesterday morning. The services will be
conducted by the Rev, L.W. Shivers, pastor of the Maybank Methodist Church, and
the Rev. J.C. Douglas, pastor of the Shiloh Baptist Church. Burial will in the
Mexia Cemetery with the Riddle Funeral Home in charge of arrangements.
Grandsons will serve as pallbearers. Mrs. Black was born at Lovelady in Walker
County on March 12, 1872, and had lived in the Tehuacana Valley for the past 66
years. Widow of the late G.D. Black, she was a member of the Methodist Church.
She is survived by seven sons, Lee, Dee, John, and Elijah Black, all of Mexia:
Dan Black, Mart; Allen Black, Teague; and George Black, Houston; and four
daughters as follows: Mrs. Cecil McDonald, Shiloh; Mrs. Jack Kelly, Houston;
Mrs. Irene Ellis, Sweeney; and Mrs. Cleonia Campbell, Fairfield. Also surviving
is a brother, Almer Hall, of Midway; 24 grand-children, and 23
great-grand-children.