Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


The Teague Chronicle - Feb 4, 2010 issue

ALICE ERWIN HALLUM CHILDS

Funeral services for Alice Erwin Hallum Childs, 97, of Fairfield, Texas, were 
conducted on Tuesday, February 2, 2010, at Capps Memorial Chapel with 
Evangelist Don Thornton officiating. Interment followed the services at 
Fairfield Cemetery.

Mrs. Childs was born on March 18, 1912, in Athens, Texas, to John and Edna 
Woodson Hallum. She graduated from North Texas State Teachers College in 
Denton, Texas, with a teaching certificate. She also graduated from Jefferson 
Davis Hospital Nursing School in 1930 with a Registered Nurse degree. She was
an Ensign in the United States Navy Nurse Corp stationed at the United States
Naval Hospital in Long Beach, California. It was there following the attack on 
Pearl Harbor that she met Chief Petty Officer Tilden Robert Childs who was 
wounded while serving aboard the U.S.S. Vestal which was tied up to the U.S.S. 
Arizona during the attack. Alice and Tilden were married on October 29, 1943. 
In 1952 Alice continued her education and graduated from East Texas State 
University in Commerce with a BS in Sociology. She worked as a nurse in Houston,
Teague, Wortham and Fairfield. She passed away on Saturday, January 30, 2010, 
in Fairfield, Texas.

Mrs. Childs was preceded in death by her husband Tilden in 1992 after 49 years 
of marriage; her brother John Hallum, and her sisters Elizabeth Workman and 
Grey Dillard.

Survivors include her children Sara Nelson and husband Terry of Corsicana, 
Tilden Robert Childs, Jr. of Fairfield; her sisters Ruby Miller and Doris 
Bridge both of Athens; her grandchildren Brandon, Brooke and Blaire Nelson; 
numerous nieces and nephews.

To view an online obituary, send a personalized sympathy card, or leave the 
family a personal tribute, please visit www.cappschapel.com. Capps Memorial 
Chapel of Fairfield was in charge of the arrangements.