Morris Co., TX - Obits: Miss Mary Katherine Wardlow ***************************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb by: John Wardlow USGenWeb Archives. Copyright. All rights reserved http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm ***************************************************** Cason Woman Dies of Cancer April 22, 1959 Cason Miss Mary Katherine Wardlow, 29, former WAF and employee of Thiokol Chemical Corp., died of cancer at 6:30 a.m. Saturday at Hospital in the Pines, Lone Star. She had once done benefit performances on radio, television and the stage, for cancer fund drives. Miss Wardlow was to have been married in February to Eugene Kretschmar of Austin, but the marriage was postponed due to her illness. Funeral services are to be held at 3 p.m. Sunday from the Cason Baptist Church with Brother J. D. Boren officiating. The Rev. Hulen Jones, and the Rev. H. W. Koenig will assist him. She was a member of the Church of Christ. Burial will be in Blevins Cemetery, Cason. Reeder Watson Davis Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements. Miss Wardlow was a drum major at Daingerfield High School where she graduated. She attended Northwestern College at Natchitoches, La. In 1951 she enlisted in the Women’s Air Force, and served seven years. She was discharged with the rank of staff sergeant in 1958. While at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, she was active in that city’s Little Theater works. She represented the WAF’s at the Orange Bowl football game in 1957, at Miami. In 1957-58 Miss Wardlow was a WAF recruiter in Shreveport, where she also participated in Little Theater work and appeared in the Shreveport production of “Chalk Garden.” Survivors include her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O E Wardlow, Cason; two sisters, Mrs. H E Edwards, Cason, and Mrs. C D Plummer of Hearne; two brothers, Jimmy Wardlow of Longview and Pete Wardlow of Cason. Active pallbearers are Kendrick Key, Thomas Freeman, Edward Hooton, Walter Richardson, Johnny Richardson and Jimmy Wardlow. Honorary pallbearers are Noel Gibson, Jeff Montgomery, Russell Montgomery, Robert Kelly Hamm, Hermann Childree, Jim White and Morris Henderson.