Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries



The Fairfield Recorder - January 13, 2011

WILLIAM EDWARD PITTMAN

Graveside services were held last Saturday at Fairfield Cemetery for Mr. 
William Edward Pittman, 86, of Fairfield who died Jan. 5 at East Texas Medical 
Center in Athens.

Mr. Pittman was born Nov. 2, 1924 to Robert Lee Pittman and Fannie Sue Manahan 
Pittman and he grew up “in the middle of a cotton patch” in the Grange Hall 
Community, in the Pleasant Grove Baptist Church, and under the leadership of 
Superintendent P. D. Browne in the Fairfield Public School.

He served in the U.S. Navy during World War II as a Navy Medical Corpsman and 
graduated from The University of Texas in 1951.

Mr. Pittman was an active petroleum landman for forty-seven years, having been
an employee of Pure Oil Company, Hunt Oil Company, Gold King Production 
Company, and then an independent landman for seventeen years.

He was a member and past member of Landmen’s Association in Houston, Dallas, 
Tyler, New Orleans, LA and Lafayette, LA and the American Association of
Professional Landsmen.

Mr. Pittman was past president of Dallas Association of Petroleum Landmen, 
1975 recipient of Distinguished Service Award from the American Association of
Petroleum Landmen.

He loved God, his country, family, friends, good books, music, flowers, dogs 
and most creatures, hos home, the land, and life.

He was preceded in death by his two wives, Mary Frances McMaster and Sara 
Elizabeth Thompson Skipper.

Mr. Pittman is survived by daughter Marianne Pittman Elder and husband Robert;
sons Christ, Mark, and Don Skipper; grandchildren India, Austin, Collin, and
Linton Travis Skipper; cousin Clovis Price and wife Melissa; and a number of 
other family members and friends.

Pallbearers were Robert Elder, Clovis Price, Daniel Chamblee, Roland Sledge, 
David McMaster, and Mark Mitchell.

Honorary pallbearers were Wayne Pittman and Ruth Davis.

Officiating services was the Reverend Brooks Taylor of the First United 
Methodist Church of Murchison.

Making arrangements was Griffin-Roughton funeral home of Fairfield.