Tarrant County - Obituaries - Harry Matthew Tracy

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Mansfield News Mirror
May 12, 1983

Funeral services for longtime area resident, Harry
Matthew Tracy, 87, of Mansfield were held at 2 p.m.,
Saturday, May 7 in the First Baptist Church of
Mansfield, with interment following in Mansfield
Cemetery.

Rev. James Moore of the church officiated. 
Blessing-McInnis Funeral Home was in charge of
arrangements.

He died Thursday, May 5, 1983, in a Fort Worth
hospital.

Pallbearers were Mike Shaw, James Tipps, Wesley
Seeton, C. L. Glass, Truett Casstevens, Glen Harmon,
and Danny Ray.

Tracy was born April 28, 1896, in Mason, Texas, the
son of James and Nellie Alice Johnston Tracy.  He
married Edna Brougher, Dec. 27, 1947, in Waxahachie. 
He was a member of the First Baptist Church and
Mansfield Masonic Lodge No. 331, and a veteran of
World War I.

Tracy was a farmer in the Venus area from 1928 to 1955
when he moved to a farm near Mansfield.

Survivors include his wife, Mrs. Edna Tracy of
Mansfield; three daughters, Mrs. Jo Aline Cain of
Grandview; Mrs. Elwin Christine Crow of Fort Worth;
and Mrs. Billie Juanita James of Corpus Christi; one
son, Paul Newton Tracy of Fort Worth; 12
grandchildren; 22 great grandchildren; and one great
great-granddaughter.