Freestone County, Texas
Obituaries


Teague Chronicle
October 25, 2007 issue


WILLIE ODESSA WARD


Graveside services for Mrs. Willie Odessa Ward, 89, of Mexia, were held on 
Tuesday, October 23, 2007, at the Mexia Cemetery with Rev. Brad Brittan, 
Pastor of First United Methodist Church officiating.

Mrs. Ward was born on January 22, 1918, in Trinidad, Texas to William Jarret
and Minnie Pearl Stephens Stanfield and passed away on October 22, 2007, in 
Mexia. She was a retired telephone operator for Southwestern Bell Telephone 
Co. and Mexia State School. She was a member of the First United Methodist 
Church in Mexia.

She is survived by her step-daughter Rita Jo Burleson and husband Don, her 
granddaughter Brenda Pailes and husband William, her grandson Jim Burleson and 
wife Evie, her sister Marie Mayo, her nephews Jimmy Mayo and wife Judy, Jerry
Don Mayo and wife Teresa Gwendel Stanfield, her niece Linda Griffin and 
husband Ray and great granddaughter Lacey Pailes.

She was preceded in death by her parents, her step-mother Maude Taylor and her
nephew Tillman Stanfield.

Blair-Stubbs Funeral Home of Mexia was in charge of the arrangements.