Ochiltree County Texas Archives Obituaries.....Moon, Rolland E. March 26, 1939 ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/tx/txfiles.htm ************************************************ File contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by: Jane Slaughter emilyjane262@hotmail.com April 19, 2006, 8:33 pm Perryton, TX Newspaper "Last Rites are Held"....Services at Baptist Church Wednesday for R.E. Moon, Resident of County Twenty Years: Sorrowful last rites were held Wednesday afternoon, 2:30 o'clock at the Baptist Church for R. E. Moon, a resident of Ochiltree County for twenty years. Rev. P. E. Yarborough, Methodist pastor, conducted the services and interment was in the Ochiltree Cemetery. A mixed octet, composed of Mrs. Howard Holt, Mrs. R. P. Hurn, Mrs. W. E. Foglesong, Miss Marjorie Yarborough, I.R. Buchanan, Robert Lawrence, Harold Witt and S. S. Mallett, sang "Pass Me Not, O Gentle Savior," "Beautiful Isle of Somewhere" and "Abide with Me" with Mrs. A. P. McCelvey, Jr. at the piano. Pallbearers were W. G. Yeary, Chas. R. Cudd, C. J. Frantz, John Overton, A. C. Nies and S. B. Lewis. OBITUARY Rolland E. Moon was born May 14, 1875 at Stilwell, Kansas and lived to be 63 years, 10 months and 12 days old. He moved to Texas and located eighteen miles northwest of Perryton in 1919, moving into Perryton during the past year. He was united in marriage to Miss Leona Furnish and to this union seven children were born. Mrs. Moon and one son, Roy, have passed on. Survivors are five daughters, Mable, Louise, Ella Mae, Oleta Fay and Bertha Ray; one son, Billie of Colona, Colorado; and two sisters, Mrs. Flora Medaris, Stilwell, Kansas, and Mrs. Myrtle Noble, Kansas City, Missouri. All were present for the funeral services except Oleta Fay, who is living with Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Berry, Carlton, Oregon and Mrs. Medaris. Mr. Moon who had been in poor health for seven or eight years but the end came very suddenly Sunday afternoon about 3:30 o'clock in the Dr. J. C. May home, where he had gone for medical attention." This file has been created by a form at http://www.genrecords.net/txfiles/ File size: 2.3 Kb