Grayson County, Texas - Obituary of William P. Brigance =================================================================== This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Teri Tighe Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ==================================================================== Obituary: William P. Brigance, September 5, 1969: Sherman, Grayson County, Texas Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Teri Tighe William P. Brigance Services will be held at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Forest Avenue Baptist Church for William P. Brigance, 73 of 207 E. Wilson, retired paint contractor, who died at 8:45 a.m. Thursday, at a Sherman hospital. Services will be conducted by Rev. Roy Jerrell, pastor of the Forest Avenue Baptist Church, with burial at West Hill Cemetery, under the direction of the Waldo Funderal Home, Military honors will be accorded at graveside. Mr. Brigance was born May 6, 1896 at Pierce City, Missouri, the son of the late Mr. and Mrs. John Brigance. He was married to the former Miss Marie Larimont, on March 25, 1919 at Nogent, France. He received his schooling at Pierce City, Missouri public schools and had lived in Sherman since April 1920. He was a paint contractor and decorator all of his life, retiring in 1961. He was a veteran of World War I, serving in France with the United States Army. Mr. Brigance had been business agent and financial secretary for the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers of America, Local No. 492 for many years and was quartermaster for VFW Post No. 2772 for the past 12 years. He was a member of the Disabled American Veterans Post No. 22 and one of the Sherman Barracks of World War I Veterans of the United States. He was a longtime member of the Forest Avenue Baptist Church. Survivors are his wife of Sherman; one son, John Brigance of Lamarque, Tex.; one daughter, Mrs. Dorothy Walton of Dallas; two sisters, Mrs. Charles Johnson and Mrs. Ruby McQuary, both of Riverside Calif.; five grandchildren and a number of nieces and nephews. Palbearers will be L. H. Young Sr., R.E. Jackson, O. H. Hazelip, Claude A. Morrison, L. McMillan and F. L. Walling. Honorary pallbearers will be W. H. McClure, Carl Johnson, Carl Alexander, L. C. Reeves Jr., A. G. Davenport, and all members of the Brotherhood of Painters, Decorators and Paper Hangers Local No. 492. The family will be at the Waldo Funderal Home from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. Friday and at other times at the family residence, 207 E. Wilson. Memorials may be made to the local chapter of the American Cancer Society.