Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


[Source: Harold N. Womble]


Fairfield Recorder
Paper Date Unknown
June 23, 1953 written on obit

Death Claims
Mrs. J. B. Gordon
Buried Here Wed.

Mrs. J. B. Gordon of Teague died in a Teague hospital Tuesday night following 
an illness of two or three weeks. Funeral services were held from Ham's Chapel 
in Teague Wednesday afternoon. Burial followed at the Fairfield Cemetery.

Mrs. Gordon was the former Miss Bennie Sandifer and was born and reared in 
Fairfield . She was the widow of the late Dr. J. B. Gordon of Teague.

Survivors include one son, Lucian Gordon of Teague, and one sister, Mrs. W. H. 
Miller of Fairfield , nieces and nephews.

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Newspaper Unknown
Paper date Unknown

Mrs. J. B. Gordon,
Pioneer Resident; Is Buried In Teague

(Newspaper Error on Burial Place)

Funeral services were held at Ham Brothers chapel Wednesday afternoon at 4 
o'clock for Mrs. J. B. Gordon, lifelong resident of Freestone county who died 
in the Teague city hospital Tuesday night at 11:45 after a short illness.

The services were conducted by the Rev. William A. Casseday, pastor of the 
First Presbyterian church. Burial was in the Fairfield cemetery with the Ham 
Brothers Funeral Home directing arrangements. Nephews and other members of 
the family served as pallbearers.

Mrs. Gordon, widow of the late Dr. J. B. Gordon who died in 1927, was born in 
Fairfield where she lived until moving to Teague in 1909. Prior to her marriage 
she was Miss Bennie Sandifer.

Mrs. Gordon, a member of the First Presbyterian church, is survived by one son, 
J. Lucian Gordon, Teague; one sister, Mrs. W. H. Miller of Fairfield , and the 
following nieces and nephews:

Mrs. Tom Lindley and Miss Viola Miller, both of Fairfield ; Mrs. Fred Doering, 
Kerrville ; Mrs. Milton Hampton, Itasca ; Mrs. Anne McKeown, Athens; Miss Leila 
Campbell, Gladewater; Mrs. Norman Brown, Dallas; Mrs. Lucas, Dallas; J. C. 
Sandifer, Bryan; Lucian Sandifer, Houston and Edward Campbell, Greenville.

A daughter, Miss Mary Gordon, preceded her mother in death in 1923.