Hunt Co., TX - Obits: Tom M. Mooney
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      (Does anyone have any records of the Mooney Bus Company?)

Tom M. Mooney
    Greenville--Tom M. Mooney, 58, known throughout Texas and Oklahoma as a
rancher and civic leader, died at 8:00 AM in a Greenville hospital.  Mr.
Mooney is said to have suffered a heart attack earlier in the week.
    Funeral services will be held at 2:30 PM Friday in the Washington Street
Baptist Church.  The Rev. George Sagen, Granite City, Illinois, will officiate
and burial will be made in Forest Park Cemetery.
    The arrangements are being made by Gray-Sorrells Funeral Home and the body
will remain there until time for the services.
    Born in Brashear, Hopkins County, Texas, on February 22, 1899, Mr. Mooney
was the son of R. W. Mooney and Rosalie McNeely Mooney.  He was reared in
Brashear and on December 24, 1921, he was married to Naoma Bowden.  They moved
to Dallas in 1926.  In 1931, the family returned to Greenville and since that
time had maintained a home at 2211 Stanford Street.  He was a member of
Washington Street Baptist Church.
    Surviving are his wife; one son, Bruce Mooney, Oklahoma; a daughter Mrs.
Buster Little, Greenville; one grandchild; two brothers, William J. Mooney,
Dallas and Haywood Mooney, Lufkin; four sisters, Mrs. Zula Bridges, Dallas,
Mrs. Allen Sanders, Sulphur Springs, Mrs. Gennie Heath, Emory, and Mrs. Gil D.
McKay, Greenville, and other relatives.  (December 4, 1957, The Greenville
Herald Banner)

Tom M. Mooney
    Greenville--Funeral services for Tom M. Mooney, 58, retired bus operator
and rancher who died Wednesday, December 4, 1957, in a Greenville hospital
will be held at 2:30 PM Friday afternoon at Washington Street Baptist Church
where he held membership for many years.
    The Rev. George Sagen, Granite City, Illinois, and a former pastor will
office.  Burial will be made in Forest Park.
    Arrangements are being made by Gray-Sorrells Funeral Home.
    Pallbearers will be M. D. Abernathy and Jim Mooney, Dallas; Billy Edwards
and Leonard Denton, Greenville; Burley E. Denton and C. P. Wiggs, Garland;
Clyde Moseley, Cumby; and Dawson Blount, Tyler.  (December 5, 1957, The
Greenville Herald Banner)