TOM GREEN COUNTY TEXAS - OBITUARY: LESLIE ARNOLD HAZEL

Contributed by:  Linda Lane    [thelanegang.or@verizon.net]

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San Angelo Standard Times 

Sunday morning, December 6, 1931


Hazel funeral Set For Today

War Veteran Died Here Yesterday; Served Overseas

Funeral services will be conducted at3:30 o'clock this afternoon
From the Robert Massie Chapel for Leslie Arnold Hazel, 33, World War
veteran, 
who died here yesterday.

Wounded twice and gassed in the St. Mihiel and Argonne offensives
during the 
war, Mr. Hazel had been ill for some time.  He had joined Company B,
11th 
Infantry of the American forces shortly after war was declared in
1917.  In 1930 
he was married to Miss Mary Marberry, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. A.J.
Marberry, of 
this city.

Members of the American Legion will act as pallbearers.   The Rev.
J. Grady 
Timmons will officiate at the services.  Burial will be in 
Fairmount.

Surviving are the wife and small son, Jack, the mother, a Mrs. W. L.
Black of 
Moro, Ark., a sister,  Mrs. Sam Polk of San Angelo, and three
brothers, Clarence 
and Edward Hazel of St. Louis, and  W.L. Hazel of San Angelo.



My notes:

Leslie enlisted in the U.S. Army, Co. D, 11th Infantry, 5th Division

The surviving mother of Leslie Arnold Hazel is Mrs. Nora 'Ollie'
Collins Hazel 
Black, 1st married to Hiram Benjamin Hazel of KY  2nd to Mr. W.L.
Black. Sr.  of 
AR.

The three brothers of Leslie are listed incorrectly as Hazel's -
They are Black's, Leslie's half brothers.