Hunt Co., TX - Obits: Carl Weldon Ross ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: Sarah Swindell USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Carl Weldon Ross Funeral services fro Carl Weldon Ross, 64, of RR 2, Celeste, were at 2:00 PM, Friday, September 14, 1973, in the First United Methodist Church with the Rev. Bob Layman, Bob Renfro, and Harold Staats officiating. Burial was in Memoryland Memorial Park under the direction of Coker-Mathews- Peters Funeral Home, Greenville. Pallbearers were G. W. Tillerson, Gerald Williams, Bo Lipsey, Billy Mulkey, Albert Granberry, and Carl Lacy. Mr. Ross died on Thursday, September 13, 1973, at his home. Born in Hunt County on January 10, 1909, he was the son of Charlie A. Ross and Purnia Shanks Ross. He was married to Imogene Browning on September 6, 1936, in Royse City. A retired E-Systems supervisor, he was a member of the First United Methodist Church of Celeste and member and Past Master of the Celeste Masonic Lodge. Surviving are his wife and mother, both of Celeste; a son, Bobby Carl Ross of Sherman; a daughter, Mrs. S. L. Fuller of Lilburn, Georgia; four grandchildren, Gay Lynn Ross and Robert Ross and Felicia Fuller and Candace Fuller; aunts, uncles, and cousins. He was preceded in death by his father in 1956. (September 21, 1973, The Celeste Courier)