Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Mrs. Minnie A. Speed

Corsicana Semi-Weekly Light Tuesday, May 12, 1936 - Page 8

MRS. MINNIE SPEED BURIED FREESTONE COUNTY MONDAY 

Funeral services for Mrs. Minnie A. Speed, aged 64 years, who died at the home 
of her son, Jess Speed, Exall Heights addition, Monday morning at 3 o'clock, were 
held at the Steward's Mill church in Freestone county Monday afternoon at 4 
o'clock with interment in the Steward's Mill cemetery. The rites were conducted 
by Rev. Joe E. Glenn, pastor of the Eleventh Avenue Baptist church. Mrs. Speed 
had resided in Navarro county for the past 50 years. Surviving are her husband, 
E. A. Speed, Corsicana; two sons, Jesa Speed, Corsicana, and Jim Speed, Los 
Angeles; one daughter, Mrs. Ethel Edmondson, San Angelo; several grandchildren, 
a brother, Henry Await, Steward's Mill, and four sisters, Mrs. Sybil Lamb, 
Wortham; Mrs. Mattie Bass, Steward's Mill; Mrs. Bell McAdams, Steward's Mill and 
Mrs. Laura McLeod, Phoenix, Ariz. The funeral arrangements were directed by the 
Corley Funeral Home. Pallbearers were Dave Wiley, Tommie Blissette, Elbert 
Beasley, Bob Mills, porter Holloway and E. W. O'Daniel.