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| Tuscola Cemetery, Taylor County, Texas |
| Abilene Reporter-News, Tuesday, 1965 |
| Rites in Tuscola for Mrs. Hancock |
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TUSCOLA (RNS) - Funeral will be held at 2:30 p.m. Friday in Tuscola's First
Baptist Church for Mrs. Jack W. Hancock, 49, of Rt. 1, Ovalo, killed about 4
p.m. Wednesday in a two-vehicle collision seven miles northeast of Lawn on a
county road. Officiating will be the Rev. Jackie Mints, pastor, assisted by Dr. Albert Lunday and Dr. Billy P. Smith, both of Hardin-Simmons University. Burial will be in Tuscola Cemetery under direction of Fry Funeral Home of Tuscola. Mr. Hancock, who was driving the pick-up, is president of the Taylor County Farm Bureau. he was released from Hendrick Memorial Hospital Thursday after being held overnight for observation. Driver and lone occupant of the second vehicle, Roy Edgar Grant, also of Rt. 1, Ovalo, was treated and released at Hendrick. Mrs. Hancock was born Frankie Lee Straley Aug. 14, 1915, in Oplin. She married Mr. Hancock June 8, 1940 in Abilene. A graduate of H-SU and a former area school teacher, she had lived six miles east of Ovalo for the past 18 years. She was a member of the First Baptist Church of Tuscola. Survivors are the husband, two daughters, Joy Kay, a student at H-SU, and
Jackie Sue, a Jim Ned High School senior who was on her class's senior trip in
Galveston at the time of the accident; her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Straley;
a sister, Mrs. Elsie Durham, and a brother, Charley Tom Straley, all of Oplin. |
