(Mrs Frances Mitchell - Oplin Cemetery

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Abilene Reporter-News, Saturday, December 22, 1956 Abilene, Texas

Mrs. Mitchell Dies at 90, Funeral Set at Lawn Sunday

Mrs. Frances Mitchell, 90, died at 2:45 p.m. Friday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Pollie Chambers of 1282 Oak St., after an illness of several months.

She had been seriously ill for two months.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Sunday at the Lawn Primitive Baptist Church with Elder Jesse Bass of Tuscola and Elder L. M. Handley officiating.

Burial will be at Oplin Cemetery under direction of Bowles-Fry Funeral Home of Tuscola.

Born in Nebraska on April 21, 1886, Mrs. Mitchell came to Fort Worth later that same year with her family. In 1879, they moved to Coleman County. She married Ellard Mitchell in 1883. Mr. Mitchell died Dec. 28, 1932.
The couple moved to Coleman in 1903, from Silver Valley. They operated the Mitchell Wagon Yard in Coleman. Later they owned and operated the Oplin Hotel at Oplin 17 years. In 1920, they came to Lawn and built the Lawn Hotel which they operated until his death.

For the past 12 or 13 years Mrs. Mitchell had been living at the home of another daughter Mrs. Delia Griffin, in Lawn. She had been in Abilene about a month.

She is survived by two daughers, Mrs. Pollie Chambers of 1282 Oak St. and Mrs. Delia Griffin of Lawn; two sons, Needham H. Mitchell of Hamby and King S. Mitchell of Ovalo; two brothers, Hugh S. Needham of Ranger and Newt Needham of Coleman; three sisters, Mrs. Lizza Sanders of Irving, Mrs. Winnie Hudson of Waco and Mr. Aley Sanders of Dallas; nine grandchildren, 21 great-grandchildren and five great-great-grandchildren.
Grandsons will act as pallbearers. They are: Rogers Chambers of Fort Worth, Clifton Esman of Abilene, Shelby Chambers of Amarillo, Edwin Griffin, Willard Chambers, Alex Koenigsberg, Joe Mayfield, N. H. Mitchell Jr. and Bob Cook, all of Abilene.