Ellis Co., TX - Obituaries - Walter Lee Cauthen *********************************************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Dorman Holub Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm *********************************************** The Abilene Reporter Newws Friday, December 5, 1960 Waxahachie Rites For Former Jones County Official WAXAHACHIE - Funeral for Walter Lee Cauthen, 79, former Jones County Commissioner, will be held Tuesday in the Rudolph Funeral chapel here. Rev. Herman Price, pastor of Ferris Ave. Baptist church, will officiate, with burial to be in Italy cemetery. Mr. Cauthen died Sunday in Waxahachie. While a county commissioner, he lived in Lueders and was a deacon in the Baptist church. He moved from Lueders to Lubbock in 1944 and to Waxahachie in 1946. He was born 17 January 1881 in Italy, Texas. Surviving: his wife, Minnie; 1 son - W.L. Cauthen of Midland; 2 daughters - Mrs. B.E. Louder of Dallas, Mrs. C.M. Trotter of Lubbock; 3 sisters - Mrs. Dell Wimberly of Bynum, Mrs. Bert Price of San Antonio, Mrs. Raymond Taisely of Italy; half-brother - Ervin Spence of Waxahachie; 2 grandchildren; 2 great-grandchildren.