The Bryan - College Station Eagle  - November 25, 2001 edition

Joe Davis Withers
March 22, 1920 — Nov. 23, 2001

FRANKLIN — Services for Joe Davis Withers, 81, of Ridge are set for 11 a.m.
Tuesday at the McCauley Funeral Home Chapel in Franklin.

Burial will be in Holly Cemetery in the Ridge community.

Visitation will be from 1 to 8 p.m. Monday at the funeral home.

Mr. Withers died Friday in Humble.

He was born in Teague and lived in Ridge most of his life. He received his
education in Teague. He was retired from the Cameron Iron Works after 29 and a
half years of service as a carpenter. He served in the U.S. Army during World
War II, where he was a P.O.W., and was a member of VFW Post No. 9873 in
Franklin.

He was preceded in death by his wife, Alma Withers.

Survivors include four daughters and sons-in-law, Lynda and Carl Douthey of
Scappoose, Ore., Mary and Ronnie Franklin of Pasadena, Texas, Sylvia and Norman
Murff of Splendora, Texas, and Patricia and Frank Clark of Houston; a son and
daughter-in-law, Joe and Betty Withers of Stockdale, Texas; a step-son, James
Currie of Maybank, Texas; 26 grandchildren; and numerous great-grandchildren.