Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Corsicana Daily Sun - Aug 30, 1997 issue

Annie Belle (Horton) McConnico
Oct 6, 1910 - Aug 27, 1997

Graveside services for Annie Belle Horton McConnico, 86, of Sulphur Springs, 
formerly of Grand Prairie, will be held today at 2 p.m. in Birdston Cemetery 
near Streetman, Freestone County.

Honorary pallbearers will be the nurses and aides of Hopkins County Memorial 
Hospital Home Health.

Mrs. McConnico died Wednesday at the home of her daughter's family after an 
extended illness.

She was born Oct. 6, 1910, near Streetman, the daughter of William Virgil and 
Mary Cross Weeks Horton. She married Robert D. "Mike" McConnico on Dec. 25, 1933, 
in Normangee. He preceded her in death on Jan. 5, 1986.

Mrs. McConnico was a homemaker and a member of First Baptist Church, Sulphur 
Springs.

She is survived by her daughter and son-in-law, Mary Ann and Don O'Neal of 
Sulphur Springs; grandsons, Scott O'Neal and Steven O'Neal; a sister, Rena 
Kilgore of Baytown; two brothers, O.O. Horton of Baytown and E.F. Horton of La 
Porte; and many nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by one son, Robert D. "Bob: McConnico, Jr.; one sister, 
Virgie Mae Tunks; and four brothers, Bradley Horton, Alton Horton, Doyle Horton, 
and Joel Horton.

Memorials may be made to the Library Building Committee of the Sulphur Springs 
Public Library.

Arrangements by Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home of Sulphur Springs.