OBITUARY: Edith Avant Calcote: HENDERSON COUNTY, TEXAS Copyright © 2004 by Bunny Freeman. This copy contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives. ************************************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ************************************************************************ Obituary of NAME: Edith Avant Calcote AGE: 101 ADDRESS: Athens Henderson Co., TX DIED: Aug. 15, 2002 PLACE: Athens Henderson Co., TX BIRTH: Oct. 26, 1900 BIRTH PLACE: Tennessee Colony Anderson Co., TX PARENTS: Marcus Eugene Avant and Mary Tennie Campbell SPOUSE: Charles Riley Calcote SURVIVORS: daughter, Jeanne Helms; daughter-in-law, Roberta Calcote; four grandchildren; six great-grandchildren; and several nieces and nephews PRECEDING IN DEATH: parents; husband, Charles Riley Calcote, in 1954; daughter, Rosemary Kendrick; son, Charles Richard Calcote; grandson, Michael Kendrick; sons-in-law, Melford Holms and Charles S. Kendrick; sister, Alma Avant Wofford; brothers, Homer, Sam, Frank, Albert, Milton, Bruce and Shelton Avant SERVICES: 3 p.m. Saturday at Bailey & Foster Funeral Chapel BURIAL: Tennessee Colony Cemetery OFFICIATING: Dr. Tom Rosseau PALL BEARERS: Bruce Calcote, A.B. Calcote, Ryan Cummings, Todd Dugan and Alec Wofford. FUNERAL HOME: Bailey & Foster Funeral Home COMMENTS: Mrs. Calcote was a homemaker. She was a member of First Christian Church of Palestine. She was a life member and past worthy matron of the Tennessee Colony Chapter No. 102 of the Order of the Eastern Star. She was also a former member of several local clubs. SOURCE: Athens Review