Freestone County, Texas Obituaries The Texarkana Gazette newspaper Nov ?, 1979 edition Nora E Gannon - Linden, Texas Nora E Gannon, 78, of Linden died Saturday afternoon at a local hospital. Services will be 2 p.m. today at Bates-Rolf Funeral Home in DeKalb, Texas with the Rev. Ralph Briggs officating. Burial will be in College Hill Cemetery south of DeKalb. Born in Freestone County, Texas. Mrs. Gannon was the wife of the late James H Gannon. She was a Methodist. Survivors include three sons, Vernon Gannon of Hughes Springs, Texas, Guy Gannon of Dallas, Texas and Leroy Gannon of New Boston, Texas; two daughters, Ruby Beard of Linden and Dorothy Powell of Vickesburg, Miss., a step son Theodore Gannon of Santa Paula, Calif., four step daughters, Lorene Johnston of Garland, Texas, Edith Spence and Zulene Obenosky both of Naples, Texas and Helen Bass of Simms, Texas; a sister Carrie Moorman of Texarkana, Texas, 22 grandchildren and a number of great grandchildren.