Cecil Connally Tatom

1944 - 2016  (72 years)

• Name	Cecil Connally Tatom  [1, 2, 3]
  Birth	26 Jul 1944	Sabine County, Texas   [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	14 Dec 2016	Nacogdoches County, Texas
  Burial	Plainview Cemetery (aka Plainview Family Cemetery), Pineland, Sabine County, Texas
  Notes	Obituary Cecil Connaly Tatom, 72, passed away Wednesday evening in the Nacogdoches Memorial Hospital in Nacogdoches, Texas. Cecil was born on July 26, 1944, in Sabine County, to Claude Tatom and Marie Antoinette McGown Tatom. He retired as an environmental engineer and school teacher. He is survived by his wife Ann Tatom of Pineland, son Cecil Claude Tatom of Pineland, three daughters: Shelia Lowe, Frances Clark and husband Franklin, and April McCauley and husband Chris of Pineland, his two sisters: Nell Butler of Hemphill and Kathy Hutton and husband E.H. of Palacous, her 12 grandchildren and 3 great grandchildren. He is preceded in death by Melanie Tatom. Visitation will be from 5:00PM until 9:00PM, Friday, December 16, 2016, at Starr Funeral Home, 510 Starr St., Hemphill, Texas. Funeral services will be at 1:00PM, Saturday, December 17, 2016, in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the Plainview Cemetery Copied from the Starr Funeral Home website In the August 15, 2018 issue of The Sabine County Reporter, in a column titled "Tales from Sabine County", his son, Cecil Claude Tatom recalled one story that was commom amongst all his father's former students, the "infamous sodiuma nd water experiment, in which he very nearly blew up the school science lab. Every person I've chatted with has had fond memories of him, and I think he's grinning broadly from the other side."
  Person ID	I23324	Strong Family Tree
  Last Modified	20 Aug 2018

  
  

  Father	Claude Tom Tatom,   b. 3 Jul 1908, Pineland, Sabine County, Texas d. 21 Sep 1963, Houston, Harris County, Texas (Age 55 years)
  Mother	Marie Antoinette McGown,   b. 28 Sep 1910, Bronson, Sabine County, Texas d. 1 Dec 1976, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas (Age 66 years)
  Marriage	Bef 1930  [4]
  Family ID	F3649	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Living
  Children	1. Living   2. Living   3. Living   4. Living
  Family ID	F7906	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	8 Jan 2007

  
  

• Event Map		Birth - 26 Jul 1944 - Sabine County, Texas Death - 14 Dec 2016 - Nacogdoches County, Texas Burial - - Plainview Cemetery (aka Plainview Family Cemetery), Pineland, Sabine County, Texas  = Link to Google Earth
  Pin Legend	: Address       : Location       : City/Town       : County/Shire       : State/Province       : Country       : Not Set

  
  

• Sources

  [S266] Ancestry.com - Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997 [database online], (Ancestry.com Provo, UT, USA: The Generations Network, Inc., 2005. Original data: Texas. Texas Birth Index, 1903-1997. Texas: Texas Department of State Health Services. Microfiche.). [S1007] Website "Beaumont (TX) Enterprise" ; www.beaumontenterprise.com, Obituary of Opal Tatom Lee Brown (Reliability: 3). [S336] The Sabine County Reporter, P.O. Box 700, Hemphill, Texas (Published Weekly), (Founded in 1883, The Sabine County Reporter (USPS 474-660) is published once a week on Wednesday. The Reporter is Published by Sabine County Reporter, Inc. Postmaster: Send change of address to P.O. Box 700, Hemphill, Texas 75948-0700. The Sabine County Reporter and The Rambler merged March 1, 1988. Member National Newspaper Association and Texas Press Association.), November 13, 2013, Page 14, obituary for Gerald Dwain Tatom (Reliability: 3). [S1219] McCary, Kay P. "Plainview (aka Crossroads) Cemetery, Sabine County, Texas" Cemetery Index ; http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~txsabine/burials/.