Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Corsicana Weekly Light newspaper - Thursday, March 9, 1978 

Neal Blount 

FAIRFIELD — Services for Neal Blount, 61, resident of Tennessee Colony who died 
Thursday in a Palestine Hospital, were held here Saturday in the Capps Funeral 
Home Chapel. Rev. D. Dewey Morgan officiated, and burial was in Lake Chapel 
Cemetery near Fairfield. He was born July 20, 1916, in Fairfield, and had lived 
in the Bethal Community near Tennessee Colony since 1970. He was retired from 
Texaco, Inc. and was a member of the Ward Prairie Baptist Church. Survivors 
include his wife, Mrs. Nelda Blount of Tennessee Colony; two sons, Ben Blount of 
Austin and John Blount of Dallas; a daughter, Mrs. Paula E. Cox of Lancaster; a 
step-son, Billy Darnell of Jacksonville; his mother, Mrs. Pirtle G. (Elizabeth) 
Blount of Fairfield; a brother, Wayne Blount of Fairfield; two sisters, Mrs. L. 
P. (Fannie Ruth) Await of Fairfield and Mrs. Sam (Cloteal) Watson of Madisonville; 
seven grandchildren and one great­grandchild.