Wise Co., TX. - Obits - Catherine Alice Gonzales
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Catherine Alice Gonzales
1917-2000

Service for Catherine Alice Gonzales, 82, of Rhome was to be Wednesday,
May 3, at the First United Methodist Church in Rhome. The Rev. Jim 
Spencer was to officiate. Burial was to follow at the Aurora Cemetery.
Gonzales died May 1, 2000, in Decatur.

She was born Dec. 28, 1917, in Rhome.
Gonzales was the daughter of Jim Troxell and his wife Rena Morris 
Troxell. She was a graduate of Texas Tech University and of North Texas
State College, now the University of North Texas. She retired after 35 
years as a public school teacher. 
She was an author of 17 historical fiction and historical books. Her 
favorite was "History of Rhome." 

She was a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution, Daughters
of the Republic of Texas, Daughters of the Confederacy, the Wise County
Historical Commission and the First United Methodist Church of Rhome.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her granddaughter, Cynthia
Ann Hastings.

Gonzales is survived by a son, David Hastings and his wife, Elizabeth 
Ann.