Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries




Mexia Daily News - Apr. 8, 2005 edition

Mrs. Elector Betts Gatson

Funeral services for Mrs. Elector Betts Gatson, 79, of Fairfield, were held
Saturday morning, April 2, at 11 o'clock in Mount Zion Missionary Baptist
Church of Fairfield. The Rev. E.A. Anderson, pastor, and the Rev. W.C.
Anderson, assistant pastor, officiated. Burial was in Hopewell
Cemetery-Fairfield, under direction of Moore's Angelic Funeral Home of Teague.

Mrs. Gatson, born in Freestone County on July 26, 1925, died March 30 in
Methodist Hospital-Dallas. She had been employed as a cook at several
restaurants, and was a member of Mount Zion MBC of Fairfield.

Surviving are two sons and daughters-in-law, Tyree Gatson, Jr., and Ruby
Gatson, and Arthur Dean and Debra Gatson; two daughters and sons-in-law,
Delilah and Leon Terry, and Ramona Terry and John Tanksley; two brothers, the
Rev. Calvin Washington and wife Louise, and James Campbell, Jr.; 13
grandchildren and nine great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were James Griffin, Billy Jones, Jr., William Cooper, Virgil
Keeton, Stanley Terry and Melvin Solomon.