Violet Evaline Stanley

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VIOLET E. (Evaline Stanley) STRONG

Services for Violet E. Strong, 83, of Gainesville, are set for 2 p.m. Saturday at Grand Avenue Baptist Church with the Rev. Bill Black officiating. Burial will follow in Fairview Cemetery under the direction of the Geo. J. Carroll & Son Funeral Home of Gainesville.

Mrs. Strong died Oct. 14, 2004, at her residence.

She was born Feb. 22 (sic), 1921, in Duncan (sic, actually she was born in Arthur, east of Duncan, in Stephens County), Okla., to Marion and Zona Peoples Stanley. On Jan. 27, 1946 she married Barney F. Strong in Lawton, Okla. Violet Strong was a homemaker and a member of the Grand Avenue Baptist Church. During her working life, she was employed at Street Pharmacy, J.C. Penney, and at Sunbelt Savings.

Survivors include her husband, Barney F. Strong of Gainesville; daughter, Jeanie Gootas; son and daughter-in-law, Bennie (sic) F. and Pam Strong; grandchildren, Chris and Todd Kuhn, Juli Metzler, Jennifer Barna, and Alyssa and Amber Strong; great-grandchildren, Tyler and Chance Kuhn, Dalton, Luke and Jake Metzler, Bailey and Addey Kuhn, and Sydney and Megan Barna; sisters, Winell Gaidaroff, Willie Mae Landis, and Edna Lee Richardson; and several nieces and nephews.

She was preceded in death by her parents; brother, M.C. Stanley; and sister, Florence Thompson.

Pallbearers are: Chris and Todd Kuhn, Fred and Steve Stanley, and Tommy and Charles Lewis.

Visitation will be at the funeral home from 7 to 8:30 p.m. today.

From the Gainesville, Texas Daily Register, Friday, October 15, 2004

Violet married Barney Frank Strong on 27 Jan 1946 in Lawton, Comanche County, Oklahoma. Barney (son of Walter Winfield Strong and Terezie Rose "Tessie" Soukup) was born on 5 Jan 1914 in Prague, Lincoln County, Oklahoma; died on 3 Jan 2011 in Gainesville, Cooke County, Texas; was buried in Fairview Cemetery, Gainsville, Cooke County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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