Kimble County, TX - Obituaries:  Chenault, Mrs. Clarence F., 1948
Monday, July 31, 2000

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    Found in the scrapbook belonging to the late Margaret Griffen Harrison, Junction, Texas
                                  (Name of paper not given)

                            MRS. CHENAULT FUNERAL RITES HELD FRIDAY

  Funeral services for Mrs. Clarence F. Chenault, 63, who was killed instantly on May 12
when the car in which she and her husband were riding was struck by a freight engine
on the outskirts of Boerne, were held Friday at 4 p.m. from the Junction Baptist
Church with the Rev. Olen D. Welch, minister, officiating.  The Hodges Funeral Home had
charge of arrangements.  Burial was made in the Junction cemetery.
  The sedan in which Mr. and Mrs. Chenault were riding was demolished when it was struck
by a S. P. freight engine at the Sisterdale crossing in Boerne.  Mr. Chenault was taken
to a Fredericksburg hospital.  Mrs. Chenault's body was brought to Junction Wednesday
evening.
  Mr. and Mrs. Chenault, who were married in the Junction Baptist Church in 1906, and 
spent most of their married life here, had been living near Boerne for about a year.
They were employed on the J. C. Worchester ranch five miles from town.
  Mrs. Chenault, nee Laura Burt Hodges, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Hodges, pioneer
settlers, was born April 25, 1885, on the Hodges ranch on Main Llano about five miles below
town and spent most of her life in Kimble.  She was a member of the Baptist Church.
  Survivors include the widower; two sons, N. H. of San Antonio and Blake, four daughters,
Mary Helen, Joyce and Rayola, all of San Antonio, and Mrs. Bernice Kindrick; one sister, 
Mrs. Ran Davis; one half-sister, Mrs. D. B. Hodges, Gonzales; and six grandsons.
  Pall bearers were John Munn, J. O. Wright, Debs Boone, J. D. Baker, Howard Ragsdill,
Ernest Randle, Roy Blackburn and Barney Ragland.
  Among the out of town relatives attending the services were Mr. and Mrs. Bill King and
Edgar Burrows, San Antonio; Mmes. Hilton Turney, Robert Kelley, Glen Reeves, and Rex Baker,
Mr. and Mrs. Tate Jarvis, and Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Caldwell, all of Sonora; Mr. and Mrs.
Francis Kidd, Menard; Mrs. Penn Gove, Austin; Mr. and Mrs. Douglas Jarvis, Brownwood, and
Miss Margaret Ann Wright, San Marcos.
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