Chessie Olivia Cole

Notes:

She was not living with her husband or son as of the 1910 census. Melba Gene McLemore notes that she was a daughter of Dr. John Wallace COLE and Anna Zoella DAVIS, and that she married second William Clifton NEWMAN.

Obituary
Chessie Newman
Chessie O. Newman, 83, mother of Lt. C. C. (Pat) Newman of the Sheriff's Department, died this morning at Parkview Baptist Hospital. She lived at 801 Fourteenth Street.

Born Jan. 30, 1887 in Weatherford, Tex., she moved to Yuma in 1918. She was a member of the Eastern Star and St. Paul's Episcopal Church.

Funeral services will be Thursday at 10 a.m. at St. Paul's Episcopal Church with Canon Charles Crawford officiating. Burial will be in Desert Lawn Memorial Park.

Survivors include three son, C. C. (Pat) of Yuma, George of Indio, and Stillman McLemore of Porterville, Calif.; seven grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.

In lieu of rememberances the family requests donations be made to the Crippled Childrens Society in care of Johnson Mortuary.

(Yuma Daily Sun, Tuesday, April 21, 1970, courtesy of Melba Gene McLemore)

Chessie married Felix Haywood "Sam" McLemore on 16 Feb 1902 in Parker County, Texas. Felix (son of Felix Harrelson McLemore and Clarisa Isabell "Isabella" Batey) was born on 18 Jan 1879 in McDade, Bastrop County, Texas; died on 10 Oct 1936 in Tacoma, Pierce County, Washington. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Stillman Harrison "Jack" McLemore was born on 1 Aug 1904 in Texas; died on 6 Jun 1986 in Tulare, Tulare County, California.