Robertson County, Texas - Obits: Miss Patricia (Pat) Maris
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        Robertson Co., Texas Genealogical Records, #0964224

                     Maris, Miss Patricia Nell

       A gloom and sadness was cast over Franklin Tuesday, March 7, 1944, at
noon when the sad news was announced that Miss Patricia (Pat) Maris, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Maris, had died at a Marlin hospital that day at 12:30
after a brief illness. Funeral services were held Wednesday afternoon at 3
o'clock at the family residence with Rev. J. L. Wallace conducting the
religious services. Interment was made in the Franklin Cemetery under the
direction of the Fred Peters Funeral Home.
      Pat, as she was affectionately known by her many fiends, graduated with
honors from the Franklin High School with the class of 1943, after attending
high school only three years. She entered the State University at Austin in
July and completed her freshman year last week and would have started her
sophomore year Monday if she had not taken ill. She was born January 14,
1927, thus only 17 years of age and was one of Franklin's most popular young
ladies.
      As soon as the death of Miss Maris became known, throngs of friends and
relatives from this and adjoining counties began pouring into the home to do
what loving hands could to comfort the bereaved parents. The stream ebbed and
flowed constantly until the hour of the funeral.
     A most beautiful service was conducted by Rev. J. L. Wallace, pastor of
the Franklin Baptist Church and was attended by a great throng of friends of
the family and their hearts were stirred to their deepest emotions as Pastor
Wallace gave a resume of her life in his most eleborate language, rehearsing
her early life and through her schooldays. The home was filled and heaps of
flowers were piled about the casket and on stands and tables in the beautiful
drawing room of the Maris home.
   When time's relentless march bends the form which once was erect, totters
the step, dims the sight, furrows the bow, and calls from labor to reward one
grown hoary with age, we have no cause to wonder, as such is in obedience to
the edicts of nature and the laws of God, but when the angel of death closes
the eyelids of one so young, so pretty, so gentle as Miss Maris, we stop and
ponder and wonder why.
    The mysteries of death enshroud us with never ending perplexity, we do
not know, we can not understand.
     Standing in the midst of those perplexities with a deep consciousness
that we shall miss this young lady's radiant personality which won for her a
host of friends and we gather comfort in the thought that "there is a realm
where the rainbow never fades, where the stars will be spread out before us
like islands that slumber in the ocean, and where the beautiful beings which
now pass before us like shadows will stay in our presence forever."
     The large attendance at the funeral and the beautiful floral offerings
spoke in no uncertain terms of the high esteem in which the deceased was held
by her many friends throughout this section of the state. Many friends,
bereaved parents at the home and at the grave, and those who did not have the
opportunity will join in with the Texan in extending our most sincere
condolence in this sad hour.
     The deceased is survived by her heartbroken parents, Mr. & Mrs. C. E.
Maris, grandparents Mrs. & Mrs. W. E. Maris of Franklin, three uncles R. E.
Maris of Austin; W. D. Maris of Franklin; Frank White of Austin; one aunt
Mrs. Nell Lloyd of Bremond; and by six cousins, Miss Lucy Jane Lloyd of
Bremond, Mrs. Glennie D. Martin, Jr. of Hearne, Wylie Thomas Maris II of
Franklin, Frank White, Jr. of Bremond, Lt. Jack White of San Angelo, and Hill
C. White of the U.S. Navy.
     Active pallbearers were R. M. Hooker, R. P. Metcalfe, A. D. Rhodes, A.
H. Poatter, H. N. Gilland, Tom Rhodes, H. Hamilton, and O. C. Crane.