Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries

Mexia Daily News
Jan 8, 2010 issue

Obituary
Mattie Allen Chambers 

Funeral services for Mrs. Mattie Allen Chambers, 91, of 408 West Bowie Street-
Mexia, will be 1 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 26, at Union Baptist Church in Mexia. The 
Rev. Mack Walker and the Rev. Elizabeth Jones will officiate. Burial will be 
in Wortham Cemetery, with nephews and friends of the family serving as 
pallbearers. Dorsey-Keatts Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Mrs. Chamber was born in Freestone County on Jan. 16, 1918. She died on Dec. 
22, in Limestone County. She was a member and usher at Union Baptist Church 
and had been employed as a Resident Trainer at Mexia State School.

Surviving are three sisters: Ester L. Green of Corsicana, Malilda Tippens of 
Butler and Julia Hillis of Dallas; a brother, Leroy Allen of Dallas, and a 
host of nieces, nephews and other relatives. Her special friends were Annie 
Calhoun, Maxine Spivey and Mary Chatham.