J. W. Kilcrease

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The Sabine County Reporter
January 24, 1996, Page 12

J. W. Kilcrease

J. W. Kilcrease, 72, of Pineland died at 11 a.m. Monday, Jan. 15, 1996, at a Beaumont Hospital.

Born Oct. 5, 1923, in Shelby County, he had lived in Pineland 38 years and was a member of the Rosevine Missionary Baptist Church. Kilcrease was a retired truck driver for Temple-Inland Forest Products and had served 35 years with the Pineland Volunteer Fire Department.

Survivors: his wife, Joyce BUCKLEY Kilcrease of Pineland; a daugher, Cathy BIRDWELL of Pineland; four sons, Larry L. Kilcrease, Kenneth G. Kilcrease Sr. and Greg Kilcrease, all of Pineland, and Jerald Kilcrease of Jasper County; three sisters, Maggie DEARMAN and Joyce MOTT, both of Pineland, and Lydia HORTON of Rosevine; nine grandchildren, and one great-grandchild.

Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the chapel of Starr Funeral Home Inc. in Hemphill with Bro. Vance R. Purtell and Bro. Don R. Falke officiating. Interment followed at Pineland City Cemetery.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, Janaury 2011)

J. married Joyce Virginia Buckley before 1948. Joyce (daughter of Henry Virgil Buckley and Ollie Hall) was born on 29 Dec 1929 in Houston, Harris County, Texas; died on 21 Oct 2007 in Pineland, Sabine County, Texas; was buried on 23 Oct 2007 in Pineland Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Larry Lynn Kilcrease was born on 17 Mar 1948 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 11 Sep 2015; was buried in Pineland Cemetery, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas.
2. Kenneth Gale Kilcrease, Sr. was born about 1952 in Sabine County, Texas; died on 8 Sep 1982 in Tarrant County, Texas.
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Notes:

He died at the UT Medical Hospital in Galveston, but was a resident of Sabine County, and had worked as a contractor. Birthplace was shown as Shelbyville. His parents were listed as Willie Kilcrease and Emma Walden, both born in Mississippi. FindAGrave shows his parents as William Kennon Kilcrease and Emma Adora Waldrop (versus Walden). Their memorials are linked to his on FindAGrave as well. Both are buried at the Rather Cemetery, Hurstown, Shelby County, Texas.

Howard married Willie Mae Peveto before 1923. Willie was born on 24 Jan 1906 in Texas; died on 14 Jan 1962 in Bronson, Sabine County, Texas; was buried in Gravel Hill Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

Her Texas Death certificate listed her parents as Jeff Pevetoe and Maggie Roberts.