Hunt Co., TX - Obits: Odes A. Roach ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sarah Swindell USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Odes A. Roach Odes A. Roach, 67, Celeste, died in a Greenville hospital on Friday, October 24, 1958, at 8:15 PM, after a brief illness. Mr. Roach was born on October 5, 1891, in Ardmore, Oklahoma. He was a retired section foreman for the Santa Fe Railroad and had lived in Celeste since 1939. He was a member of the Baptist Church in Celeste and of the Masonic Lodge. In 1917, he was married to Elizabeth Walton in Purcell, Oklahoma. She survives. Other survivors, include one son, W. R. Roach of Fort Worth; one daughter, Mr. J. E. Lanier, Richardson, Texas; two grandchildren, Sandra Lanier and Fred Roach; one sister, Mrs. Laura Kilmer, Blanchard, Oklahoma. Funeral services were held at 2:30 PM Sunday at the Baptist Church in Celeste with the pastor, the Rev. H. G. Gideon, officiating. Burial was in the Celeste Cemetery under the direction of James-Coker-Peters Funeral Home of Greenville. (October 31, 1958, The Celeste Courier)