BREMOND — Services for Calvin Garvis Morehead, 77, of Bremond are set for 3 p.m. Sunday [September 14, 2003] at First Baptist Church in Bremond.

The Rev. Stan Ortner of First Baptist Church and Howard Vann of Bremond will officiate. Burial will be in White Rock Cemetery near Bremond.

Visitation will be from 4 to 8 p.m. Saturday at Bremond Funeral Home.

Mr. Morehead died Thursday [September 11, 2003] in St. Joseph Regional Health Center.

He was born [December 25, 1925] in the Bald Prairie community and was a lifelong resident of Bremond. He was a retired farmer and rancher and was a member of the Masonic Lodge. He attended Bremond schools and was a member of First Baptist Church. He served in the U.S. Army during World War II.

Survivors include his wife, Syble Slaughter Morehead of Bremond; a son and daughter-in-law, Charles Ray and Mozell Morehead of Bremond; two sisters, Juanita Brantner of Houston and Christine Freeman of Bremond; three grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and numerous nieces, nephews and other relatives.

Source: The Bryan-College Station Eagle. Submitted by Sally Pinkos Brantner.

Funeral services were held in the Spur Church of Christ Tuesday at 2 p.m. for James Carl Morin, 53, Douglas Cohre, Brownfield, officiated.

Mr. Morin was a contractor and laid brick on several buildings and homes in Spur. He died Dec. 16 in a Ft. Worth hospital. He had made his home in Brownfield and later in Germany. He served as a missionary from the Glen Garden Church of Christ, Ft. Worth and was a elder in the Church. He was a World War II veteran of the U.S. Army.

He is survived by his wife, Eurene Morin, Ft. Worth; two daughters, Mrs. Rotha Cloyd, Midland and Miss Carrol Morin, LCC, Lubbock; five brothers, Ben Morin, Oklahoma; Glenn and Art Morin, both of Ft. Worth; Clarence Morin, Lyle, Washington and Merle Morin, Mountainlake, Terrace, Washington.

Three sisters, Mrs. Mamie Henry, Waynesville, Mo.: Mrs. Verda McCleary, Sullivan, Mo.; and Mrs. Hazel Randolph, Marion, KS; two grandchildren.

Burial was in Spur Cemetery.

Source: The Texas Spur, Thursday, December 21, 1972, page two.

Death Notice - Juanita Morehead Brantner

Juanita Morehead Brantner, 91, of Houston, passed away on Sunday, April 12, 2009.

Visitation will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, April 14, at Bremond Funeral Home.

Services are set for 10 a.m. Wednesday, April 15, at First Baptist Church Bremond.

Interment will follow at Hurds Prairie Cemetery near Bremond. Bremond Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.

Source: Published in The Bryan-College Station Eagle on 4/14/2009 (online). Thanks to Jason Brantner, great nephew.

Obituary - Juanita Morehead

Funeral services for Juanita Jesse Morehead Brantner, age 91 of Houston, were held on Wednesday, April 15, at the First Baptist Church in Bremond. Rev. Paul Brantner was the officiating minister. Burial was in Heard's Prairie Cemetery at Petteway.

Serving as pallbearers were Rex Jackson, Charles Morehead, Gary Freeman, Ricky Brantner, Corky Brantner and Jonathan Brantner.

Mrs. Brantner passed away on Sunday, April 12, 2009. She was born on April 5, 1918 to Sidney and Lela Davis Morehead.

Juanita was precended in death by brothers, Garvis Morehead and Durwood Morehead and a sister, Sedora Mae Jackson.

Survivors include her husband, Carl Brantner of Houston; her daughter and son-in-law, Candace and Joe Johnson of Houston; a sister, Christine Freeman of Bremond; grandaughters, Aimee and Ashlee; and numerous nieces and nephews.

Source: The Bremond Press, Friday April 17, 2009, transcribed by Gerrie Jones Yates.

(Note: Also surviving is Juanita's sister-in-law, Syble Fay Slaughter Morehead, wife of Calvin Garvis Morehead.)

Funeral services for Butler S. Manning, 89, the first white child born after Dickens County was organized, were held at 4 p.m. Feb. 1 [1974] in Campbell's Funeral Chapel. David Coats, minister of the Girard Church of Christ, officiated.

Mr. Manning died in the Kent County Nursing Home, January 30. He was a retired farm laborer. He had resided in Dickens County all of his life, and was a member of the Church of Christ.

Survivors include two cousins, Mrs. Mollie Goss, Hawley and Mrs. Weltha Goss, Austin.

Pallbearers included Robert Hahn, Harry Martin, Ben Loe, Nig Wyatt, D. E. Woodward and Donnie Pace. Burial was in Red Mud Cemetery.

Source: The Texas Spur, February 7, 1974 via Dickens County RootsWeb.

Note: Butler never married.