Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



Fairfield Recorder
unknown issue in Aug 2007


Sarah Goolsby Nettle

Funeral services were held Monday, August 6 in Kirvin for Sarah Goolsby Nettle,
94, who died Friday, August 3.

Mrs. Nettle was born August 29, 1912 in Kirvin to W.J. Goolsby and Ella Teer 
Goolsby. She was a lifelong Kirvin resident.

Services were conducted at 2 p.m. at Kirvin Baptist Church, with Rev. Johnny
Layton, Dr. Dick Sisk and Rev. James Huffstetler officiating.

Burial was at Woodland Cemetery. Her grandson and great-grandsons served as 
pallbearers.

Mrs. Nettle is survived by her son and daughter-in-law, Donald and Shirley 
Nettle of Helotes; a daughter and son-in-law, Sarah Evenda and Johnny Layton of
Lake Limestone; eight grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren; two sisters, 
Tina Christian of The Woodlands and Nora Mitchell of Pasadena.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Batchelor Nettle; a son, John D. 
Nettle; and two brothers, Valstine Goolsby and William Goolsby.

Arrangements were made by Griffin-Roughton Funeral Home in Fairfield.

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Griffin-Roughton Home website

Sarah Goolsby Nettle, Fairfield
[born August 29, 1912     Died August 3, 2007]

Sarah Goolsby Nettle, 94, of Kirvin passed away Friday, Aug. 3, 2007, in 
Fairfield. Services were held at 2 p.m. Monday at Kirvin Baptist Church with 
the Rev. Johnny Layton, Dr. Dick Sisk and the Rev. James Huffstetler 
officiating. Interment followed at Woodland Cemetery in Kirvin.