Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Fairfield Recorder newspaper
December 25, 2008   	





James Milford McIlveen

Funeral services were held Saturday for James Milford McIlveen, 92, who died 
Monday, Dec. 15.

Mr. McIlveen was born Aug. 25, 1916, the first of four sons to William "Billy" 
Lorenzo and Evalena McIlveen.

He graduated from Palestine's Lincoln high school in 1934 and was a member of 
Jones Chapel United Methodist Church.

Mr. McIlveen married Eva Lois Manning and together the couple had two children, 
James Wendell and Carolyn Lynette.

Several years after the death of his first wife, he married Dorothy McBay 
Jackson.

In 1946, Mr. McIlveen opened Mac's Gasoline and Grocery Store in Fairfield which 
operated for eight years.

During this time he also opened a snack bar at the Dogan School.

Mr. McIlveen had a variety of jobs in addition to his two businesses including 
driving the Dogan school bus, cutting hair at his father's barbershop, working 
as a night cook, cutting grass at the Aztec Motel, changing oil and fixing flats 
at the Humble Gas Station, butchering cows for the Utley Ranch, and delivering 
groceries.

In 1954, he was employed by the Texas Highway Department Maintenance Division 
where he worked for 24 years before retiring in 1978.

Services were held at 1 p.m. on Saturday, Dec. 20, at the First United Methodist 
Church of Fairfield with Rev. Elnora Nunnally officiating.

Interment followed at Fairfield Methodist Cemetery.

Mr. McIlveen is survived by his children, James Wendell McIlveen of Texas City, 
Barbara Malone and husband Lewis of Dallas, and Dr. Carolyn Yarbro Smith and 
husband Jim of Houston; brother, Clifford Lincoln McIlveen and wife Clara of 
Fairfield;daughters-in-law, Barbara McIlveen of La Marque and Julia Horton of 
Fort Worth; grandchildren, Deanna Moore of Kathleen, Georgia and Gerald Lewis of 
Fort Worth; and seven greatgrandchildren.

He was preceded in death by his wives, Eva Manning and Dorothy McBay; parents; 
brothers, Garland and William McIlveen; grandson, Adrian Lewis; and 
granddaughter, Chelsea Duan McIlveen. Arrangements were made by Moore's Angelic 
Funeral Home of Teague.