Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Fairchild, Rev. Robert Royal
{Jan. 11, 1968}

REV. FAIRCHILD DIES AT AGE 56
Plainview Minister Was Injured in Car Accident
SOUR LAKE (Spl) – Funeral services for the Rev. Robert Royal Fairchild, 56, of
Plainview will be held at 1 p.m. Monday in the Magnolia Assembly of God Church
in Houston. The Rev. E.M. Yates, pastor will officiate, assisted by the Rev. 
H.G. Byars, superintendent of the District of Pentecostal Church, and the Rev.
Bennis Heard, general superintendent of the Pentecostal Church of God of 
America. Burial will be in Rosewood Park Cemetery under direction of Houston 
Funeral Home. The Rev. Fairchild, pastor of the First Assembly of god Church 
in Plainview and a native of the Friendship Community near Roganville, died 
Thursday in the Freestone County Hospital shortly after an automobile accident 
on US 75 near Fairfield. Pallbearers will be Ben Parker, Don Ansohn, Dwain 
Fairchild, Gene Warnecke, and John and Charles Eddins. Honorary pallbearers 
will be all ministers of the East Texas and North Texas districts of the 
Pentecostal Church of God. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Jo Fairchild of 
Plainview; two daughters, Mrs. Janelle Warnecke of Los Angeles, Calif., and 
Mrs. Dana Ramirez of Houston; two stepdaughters, Mrs. Margaret Ansohn and Mrs.
Winona Parker of Houston; his father, J.W. Fairchild of Jasper; three brothers,
J.C. Fairchild of Athens, Luther and E.A. Fairchild, both of Kirbyville; five 
sisters, Mrs. Mary Hawthorne of Port Arthur, Mrs. Annie Bell Stringer of 
Orange; Mrs. Johnnie Hawthorne of Kountze, Mrs. Bernie LeVaire of Sour Lake 
and Mrs. Corinne Matson of Oklahoma, and seven grandchildren.