Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Fairfield Recorder newspaper
April 30, 2009 



Versie Ann "Pretty" (Stidom) Thomas

Funeral services were held Wednesday for Versie Ann "Pretty" Thomas, 67, of 
Mexia who died Thursday, April 23, in her home.

Mrs. Thomas was born in Branchville on July 30, 1941 to Coley and Inez Stidom.

She attended school in Branchville, Gause and Hearne before marrying Elder 
Sammie Dee Thomas on June 28, 1958.

Mrs. Thomas worked as a certified nurse's aide in several nursing homes in 
Limestone county including Manor Nursing Home in Mexia.

For over 50 years, Mrs. Thomas held the office of "First Lady" at Mexia's Sandy 
Church of God In Christ where her husband served as pastor.

Services were held at 11 a.m. on Wednesday, April 29, at the First Baptist 
Church in Mexia.

The services were officiated by Elder C.D. Washington with the eulogy given by 
Superintendent O.Z. Hall.

Interment followed at Sandy Creek Cemetery with Floyd King, Jr., Lewis Thomas, 
Jr., Christopher Davis, Christopher King, Deron Clayton and Curtis Clayton, Jr. 
serving as pallbearers.

Mrs. Thomas is survived by husband, Elder Sammie Dee Thomas, Sr. of Mexia; 
children, Fitzgerald Thomas and wife Jewel of Kerens, Sammie Dee Thomas, Jr. and 
wife Aurora of Arlington, Trecia Smith and husband Will of Fort Worth, Tanya 
Thomas of Irving, Mary Anderson and husband Anthony of Grand Prairie, Sheneika 
Smith and husband Carl of Mexia;

Brothers, Fred Dunn and wife Marie of McKinney; MacArthur Stidom and wife 
Shirley of Plainview; Willie Charles Bryant and wife Debra of Hearne, and Robert 
Stidom of Los Angeles, California; sisters, Christine Gilmore of Calvert and 
Elsa Mae Lewis of Norman, Oklahoma; 11 grandchildren and two great-
grandchildren.

She was preceded in death by her parents, Coley and Inez Stidom; brother, Joe 
Bill Stidom; grandson, JaMarcus Younger; and her aunt, Robbie Moore, who raised 
her as a child.

Arrangements were made under the direction of Moore's Angelic Funeral Home in 
Teague.