Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



ELEANOR GRACE SPEED CANNON

Services will be held at 9 a.m. Thursday at First Baptist Church of Rogers for 
Eleanor Grace Speed Cannon, 90, of Temple, formerly of Rogers and Fairfield who 
died last Friday in a Temple living center.

Interment will begin at 3 p.m. in Stewards Mill Cemetery.

Mrs. Cannon was born January 2, 1920 in Fairfield to Clarence Speed and Jessie 
Pearl Renfrow Speed.

She married Millard H. Cannon on September 4, 1037. Together they lived in 
Temple from 1944 to 1967 during which time they were members of Memorial Baptist 
Church.

In 1967, the couple moved to Rogers where Mrs. Cannon was an active member of 
the First Baptist Church and the FCE (Family and Community Education) Club of 
Rogers.

She is survived by her husband of 73 years; son Don Cannon of Temple; daughters 
Karon Collier of Richardson and Sherry Cannon of Grand Prairie; four 
grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren; and sisters Jean Bonner of 
Fairfield and Wynema Hoeinghaus of Waxahachie.

Memorial contributions can be made to First Baptist Church of Rogers, PO Box 
296, Rogers, TX 76569.

Officiating services is Will Passmore.

Making arrangements was Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home of Temple.