Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Mexia Daily News - Sunday, January 31, 1954 - Page 1

Moizie L. Demus Rites Set Sunday At Grove Island 
  Funeral services will be held at the Grove Island A. M.,E. church at 2 p. m. 
Sunday for Vlaizie Lenell Demus, 31-year-old Negro woman who died on Jan. 21 at 
her home on Rt. 2, Mexia. 
  The Rev. Pies Lewis, of Teague will officiate and burial will be at the Grove
Island cemetery. The Dorsey-Keatts Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. 
  Miss Demus was born in Mexia on March 20, 1922, and lived in Mexia most of her 
life She was a member of the Union Primitive Baptist church. She is survived by 
her mother Mrs. Alvis Demus, Mexia, and eight sisters, Mrs. Myrtle Ransom and 
Onnie Lee Demus, both of Norfolk, Va., Helen Demus. Prairie View, and Ida 
Florine Demus, Ada Lorine Demus, Sylvia Demus, Lola Jean Demus, and Azerlean 
Demus, all of Mexia.  Also surviving are eight brothers, William R. and James 
Demus, Los Angleles, Calif.; Mitchell Demus, Pasadena, Calif.; Milton, Floyd, 
Boyd and Benny Demus, all of Mexia, and Lloyd Demus, now in Germany.