Don Claude "D. C." Gellatly

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name: Don C Gellatly
event: Death
event date: 19 Sep 1976
event place: Houston, Harris, Texas, United States
gender: Male
marital status: Married
birth date: 21 Jun 1898
birthplace: , Texas
father's name: Claude Gellatly
mother's name: Ola Mason
certificate number: 76615
film number: 2243981
digital folder number: 005165872
image number: 00335
Collection: "Texas, Deaths (New Index, New Images), 1890-1976," Don C Gellatly, 1976

Don married Bena Norine Harris about 1918. Bena (daughter of Robert Earl Harris and Susan L. "Sudie" Pratt) was born on 24 Jul 1901 in Texas; died on 5 Jan 2000 in San Augustine, San Augustine County, Texas; was buried in New Hope Cemetery, Milam, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Family/Spouse: Ruby Laverne Speights. Ruby (daughter of Mermond Leon Speights and Rutha Elvie McLemore) was born on 3 May 1919 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas; died on 20 Jun 2014 in Texas; was buried in Hemphill City Cemetery, Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Obituary

Claudia Jeanette Polley, 93, of Sexton, Texas passed away Sunday, July 26, 2020 in San Augustine, Texas.

Claudia was born in Milam, Texas on November 14, 1926 to Don C. Gellatly and Bena Norine Harris Gellatly.

Claudia was a superior homemaker and excellent cook. She was a member of the Hemphill High School Class of 1944 and also of Liberty Springs Methodist Church. She liked antiquing with her sister, she loved her family and she loved children. She saw the good in everything and everybody.

She is survived by her son, Don Polley of San Augustine; and sister, Bobbie Pratt of San Augustine. She is also survived and loved by her nieces, nephews, and many friends.

She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband, Dan B. Polley, Jr.; infant son, John Mason Polley; brother, Robert Earl Gellatly; and sister, Merle Huff.

Graveside services will begin at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, July 28, 2020 in New Hope Cemetery, Milam, Texas under the direction of Starr Funeral Home with Bro. Buddy Pratt officiating.

Serving as pallbearers are Doug Fuller, Cole Fuller, Jerry Burrow, Joel Halbert, Amos Hanzel, and Ray Sheard.

Online condolences can be made and memorial book can be signed at starrfuneralhome.com.

Downloaded from Starr Funeral Home website, also published in The Sabine County Reporter, July 29, 2020, page 4.

(Research):

The Sabine County Reporter
October 22, 1997, Page 7

Class of 1944

Hemphill's Class of 1944 recently held a reunion at the home of Phillip and Loretta Sterle in Hemphill. Shown are, from left: Claudine Gellaty Polley, Philip Sterle, Onie Bell Grim Williams, Doris Stewart Walts, Eugene Procella, Margie Watson Nellus, LaTrent Walker, Melba Rue Isom Byley, Charlotta Kign Walker, Bertie Scott, Helen Strickland Murray, Betty Mae Ener McGraw and Patsy Pickley Becka. The Class of '44 donated $100 from their treasury to the J. R. Huffman Public Library.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, March 2011)

Claudia married Dan Bussey Polley, Jr. on 28 Feb 1948 in Hemphill, Sabine County, Texas. Dan (son of Dan Bussey Polley, Sr. and Mary Clifton) was born on 24 Sep 1920 in Sexton, Sabine County, Texas; died on 22 Aug 2000; was buried in New Hope Cemetery, Milam, Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

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Sabine County Reporter 8 May 2002

Class of 1948 Members of the class of 1948 attending the (Hemphill High School) reunion included, from left, front; Joann (Hendrix) Alford, Bennie Jean (Chambers) Henderson and Thelma (Bass) Henderson; and back: Elaine (Erwin) Hamilton, Jackie Harris, Merle (Gellatly) Huff, Billie Sue (Ziefler) Chambers, Raymond Mattox and Kathleen (Crowell) Zachery.

Obituary

Merle Gellatly Huff, 82, of Milam, died Wednesday evening in the Twin Lakes Care Center in San Augustine. She was born in Sabine County to Don and Bena Harris Gellatly and has lived in Sabine County all her life. Mrs. Huff was a farmer and rancher and attended the Riverside Church near Milam.

She is survived by her sons; David Huff of Milam, Ted Huff and his wife Janie of Laurel, Mississippi, Tommy Huff and his wife Ashley of Henderson, her daughter Susan Sheard and her husband Ray of Milam, grandchildren; Rylie, Poppy, David and Rachel, and three great grandchildren. She is also survived by her sisters Claudia Polley of Sexton and Bobbie Pratt of San Augustine.

Visitation will be from 5:30PM until 8:00PM, Thursday, Dec. 20, 2012, in the Starr Funeral Home, 510 Starr St., Hemphill, Texas. Funeral services will be at 11:00AM, Friday, Dec. 21, 2012, in the Starr Funeral Home Chapel. Burial will follow in the New Hope Cemetery near Milam.

http://www.starrfuneralhome.com/fh/obituaries/obituary.cfm?o_id=1881157&fh_id=12228

Also published in the Sabine County Reporter, December 26, 2012, page 7

Billie married Oscar Thomas Huff on 15 Mar 1949. Oscar was born on 17 Oct 1921; died on 11 Jul 2001 in Sabine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Notes:

David Alan Huff, 68, of Milam, Texas passed away Thursday, February 18, 2021 at Sabine County Hospital in Hemphill, Texas.

David was born on July 17, 1952 in Center, Texas to Oscar Thomas Huff and Billie Merle Gellatly Huff. He attended school at Hemphill ISD and later served in the United States Air Force. He worked in the construction business.

He is survived by his son, David Alan Huff, Jr.; daughter, Rachel; brothers, Ted Huff of Mississippi and Tommy Huff of Henderson; and sister, Susan Sheard of Milam.

Cremation arrangements were handled by Starr Funeral Home of Hemphill.

Downloaded from Starr Funeral Home, also published in The Sabine County Reporter, March 3, 2021, page 4