Dollie Fannie L. Butler

Notes:

Could she have been listed as Fannie, in error, on the 1930 census?

The Sabine County Reporter
September 2, 2009, Page 9

Dollie B. Ponder

Mrs. Dollie B. Ponder, 92, of San Augustine, passed away Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2009.

Mrs. Ponder was born April 23, 1917, in San Augustine County as a daughter of the late Homer Leon and Millie Blanch Butler. She was a member of the Antioch Church of Christ and retired after working several years as a clerk at a local business.

Survivors: daughters, Treva Gray of Nacogdoches and Kay Davis and husband Buddy of Broaddus; seven grandchildren, Valarie Harrell and husband Jeff, Christy Wood and husband John, Sabrina Delaney and husband Michael, Molly Brown, Milton Gray Jr., Jason Pike and wife Pam, and Melanie Abshire and husband Percy; eight great-grandchildren, and three great-great granchildren.

She was preceded in death by her husband, Jesse Ponder; a grandson, Clark Cortines; her parents; four brothers; and a sister.

Funeral services were conducted Saturday, Aug. 29, at Wyman Roberts Memorial Chapel in San Augustine with Alton B. Shaw, Church of Christ minister, officiating. Interment followed at Antioch Cemetery in San Augustine County.

Services were under the direction of Wyman Roberts Funeral Home in San Augustine.

(Transcribed by Melinda McLemore Strong, September 2009)

A nearly identical obituary was also published in the September 3, 2009 issue of the San Augustine Tribune.

Dollie married Jessie Berry Ponder on 22 Dec 1941. Jessie (son of Berry Ponder and Lillie Eppes) was born on 21 Nov 1917 in San Augustine County, Texas; died on 26 Aug 1996 in Angelina County, Texas; was buried in Antioch Cemetery (Caucasian), San Augustine County, Texas. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]