Hopkins Co TX - Tribute to Mrs. Blanche McMullan

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From the Historical files of June E. Tuck who does not validate or dispute any
historical facts in the article.

(Edited)

Tribute paid to Mrs. Blanche McMullan

by Rena Bonner Conway, Mineral Wells, Texas, May 15, 1939

Editor, News-Telegram: I enclose a story here that I wrote about one of your
citizens, Mrs. Blanche McMullian, who has been a patient in the Nazareth
Hospital in this city for the past four months. I am sure that many of your
readers will be interested in the article if you care to reproduce it. Mrs.
McMullan is a childhood friend of my sister, Mrs. Mabel Bonner Lewis, and used
to live near our aunt, Mrs. Laura Robertson, when they were both children. We
have visited her often since she has been in the hospital, so Sunday I wrote
the little story about her.

My parents were Mr. & Mrs. Willis Bonner, who married in Sulphur Springs.
Mother’s father was Turner L. Green, and her mother was Delila Russell. Her
sisters were Mrs. Laura Robertson, Mrs. Blanche Milam, Mrs. Emma Gilbert
Bonner, her first husband being Dr. Sam Gilbert, and Mrs. Hallie Proctor who
still lived in your city. So you see we date back in the history of Hopkins
County many years.

Mrs. Blanche McMullan spends Mothers Day in Nazareth Hospital., in her pretty
room, the one that was furnished by Mrs. Minnie Seeligson, surrounded by
flouwers and gifts from her family and friends in her home town.

Raised an only child, she often said that when she married she was going to
have twelve children. She did. One passed away in infancy and another one at
the age of 23 years. Ten children, nine in-laws and twelve grandchildren today
rise up and call her "blessed." All have grown up into fine men and women, and
seldom been a week that some of them have not visited her. Friday several of
her children were here, brought her flowers from her own garden, and gifts.
Since coming here Mrs. McMullan has contributed to the charity fund and joined
the Hospital Auxilliary.