Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries




Mexia Daily News - Sunday, September 4, 1955 - Page 1

Mrs. Ara Hunter Funeral Rites In Mexia Sunday 

Funeral services will be held at the Grace Island A. M. E. Church at 4:3 p.m. 
this Sunday for Mrs. Ara Hunter, 70-year old Mexia Negro woman who died in a 
Teague hospital Friday. Services will be conducted by the Rev. R. C. Culbuson, 
pastor of the Antioch Primitive Bap list church of Teague. Burial will be in the 
Grove Island cemetery with the Dorsey-Keatts Funeral Home in charge of 
arrangements. Mrs. Hunter was born in Mexia on Oct. 15, 1884, and lived here all 
of her life. She was a member of the Union Primitive Baptist Church. She is 
survived by her husband, Sam Hunter, Mexia; two daughters, Mrs. Eddie Mae Brooks 
and Mrs. Gladys Mae Walker, both of Mexia; a sister, Mrs. Jessie Livingston, 
Mexia; two sons, Ruben J. Hunter, Houston, and Willie James Hunter, Dallas; 21 
grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.