The Wellington Leader
June 9, 2005
Lois June (Templeton) Scott was born June 11, 1913 in Wellington, the daughter of Collingsworth County Judge R.H. and Lutie (Gresham) Templeton. She married Lyle Dean Scott on March 23, 1937 in Denton.
She died at 9:30 am, Thursday, May 26, 2005, at Sunny Springs Nursing
Home in Sulphur Springs, at the age of 91, just a couple of weeks before her 92nd birthday.
She was a retired Federal Civil Service employee and a member of the First United Methodist Church in Sulphur Springs. She graduated from Wellington High School with the Class of 1929 along with her sister, Idabel. They attended Texas Tech together.
The Collingsworth Community of Lutie was named for Lois' mother. Lois' uncle, R.L. Templeton was a State Legislative representative as was his nephew and namesake, R.L. Templeton, who was also Collingsworth County Attorney and Lois' brother. Lois' maternal grandfather, Isaac Newton "Newt" Gresham was the founder of the Farmers Union organized in 1902 at Point, where a bronze statue of him is being erected in his honor. Two historical markers adorn his grave. Newt married Ida Mae Peters in Granbury. They had four children: Lutie, Ferris, Nellie Bly, and Pattie.
Lois is survived by one sister-in-law, Travis Templeton of Wellington; five nieces, Bobbie Rhodes of Wellington, Barbara Shields of Grapevine, Mary Ann Pleasant of Pickton, Sally Roushey of Mesquite, and Lois Patterson of Memphis, TN., three nephews, Dr. Joe Minter of Sulphur Springs, Tom Minter of Rowlett, and Lee Templeton of Amarillo, plus other Templeton, Peters, and Benson relatives, many of whom still reside in her beloved Wellington.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1980 and four brothers Robert, John Worth (buried in the US Cemetery Solers, France) R.L., Pat Neff (the first to lose his life from Collingsworth County during WWII, buried in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England), and one sister Idabel Minter.
Bio from Dodson Cemetery Association
June 9, 2005
Lois June (Templeton) Scott was born June 11, 1913 in Wellington, the daughter of Collingsworth County Judge R.H. and Lutie (Gresham) Templeton. She married Lyle Dean Scott on March 23, 1937 in Denton.
She died at 9:30 am, Thursday, May 26, 2005, at Sunny Springs Nursing
Home in Sulphur Springs, at the age of 91, just a couple of weeks before her 92nd birthday.
She was a retired Federal Civil Service employee and a member of the First United Methodist Church in Sulphur Springs. She graduated from Wellington High School with the Class of 1929 along with her sister, Idabel. They attended Texas Tech together.
The Collingsworth Community of Lutie was named for Lois' mother. Lois' uncle, R.L. Templeton was a State Legislative representative as was his nephew and namesake, R.L. Templeton, who was also Collingsworth County Attorney and Lois' brother. Lois' maternal grandfather, Isaac Newton "Newt" Gresham was the founder of the Farmers Union organized in 1902 at Point, where a bronze statue of him is being erected in his honor. Two historical markers adorn his grave. Newt married Ida Mae Peters in Granbury. They had four children: Lutie, Ferris, Nellie Bly, and Pattie.
Lois is survived by one sister-in-law, Travis Templeton of Wellington; five nieces, Bobbie Rhodes of Wellington, Barbara Shields of Grapevine, Mary Ann Pleasant of Pickton, Sally Roushey of Mesquite, and Lois Patterson of Memphis, TN., three nephews, Dr. Joe Minter of Sulphur Springs, Tom Minter of Rowlett, and Lee Templeton of Amarillo, plus other Templeton, Peters, and Benson relatives, many of whom still reside in her beloved Wellington.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1980 and four brothers Robert, John Worth (buried in the US Cemetery Solers, France) R.L., Pat Neff (the first to lose his life from Collingsworth County during WWII, buried in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England), and one sister Idabel Minter.
Bio from Dodson Cemetery Association
The Wellington Leader
June 9, 2005
Lois June (Templeton) Scott was born June 11, 1913 in Wellington, the daughter of Collingsworth County Judge R.H. and Lutie (Gresham) Templeton. She married Lyle Dean Scott on March 23, 1937 in Denton.
She died at 9:30 am, Thursday, May 26, 2005, at Sunny Springs Nursing
Home in Sulphur Springs, at the age of 91, just a couple of weeks before her 92nd birthday.
She was a retired Federal Civil Service employee and a member of the First United Methodist Church in Sulphur Springs. She graduated from Wellington High School with the Class of 1929 along with her sister, Idabel. They attended Texas Tech together.
The Collingsworth Community of Lutie was named for Lois' mother. Lois' uncle, R.L. Templeton was a State Legislative representative as was his nephew and namesake, R.L. Templeton, who was also Collingsworth County Attorney and Lois' brother. Lois' maternal grandfather, Isaac Newton "Newt" Gresham was the founder of the Farmers Union organized in 1902 at Point, where a bronze statue of him is being erected in his honor. Two historical markers adorn his grave. Newt married Ida Mae Peters in Granbury. They had four children: Lutie, Ferris, Nellie Bly, and Pattie.
Lois is survived by one sister-in-law, Travis Templeton of Wellington; five nieces, Bobbie Rhodes of Wellington, Barbara Shields of Grapevine, Mary Ann Pleasant of Pickton, Sally Roushey of Mesquite, and Lois Patterson of Memphis, TN., three nephews, Dr. Joe Minter of Sulphur Springs, Tom Minter of Rowlett, and Lee Templeton of Amarillo, plus other Templeton, Peters, and Benson relatives, many of whom still reside in her beloved Wellington.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1980 and four brothers Robert, John Worth (buried in the US Cemetery Solers, France) R.L., Pat Neff (the first to lose his life from Collingsworth County during WWII, buried in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England), and one sister Idabel Minter.
Bio from Dodson Cemetery Association
June 9, 2005
Lois June (Templeton) Scott was born June 11, 1913 in Wellington, the daughter of Collingsworth County Judge R.H. and Lutie (Gresham) Templeton. She married Lyle Dean Scott on March 23, 1937 in Denton.
She died at 9:30 am, Thursday, May 26, 2005, at Sunny Springs Nursing
Home in Sulphur Springs, at the age of 91, just a couple of weeks before her 92nd birthday.
She was a retired Federal Civil Service employee and a member of the First United Methodist Church in Sulphur Springs. She graduated from Wellington High School with the Class of 1929 along with her sister, Idabel. They attended Texas Tech together.
The Collingsworth Community of Lutie was named for Lois' mother. Lois' uncle, R.L. Templeton was a State Legislative representative as was his nephew and namesake, R.L. Templeton, who was also Collingsworth County Attorney and Lois' brother. Lois' maternal grandfather, Isaac Newton "Newt" Gresham was the founder of the Farmers Union organized in 1902 at Point, where a bronze statue of him is being erected in his honor. Two historical markers adorn his grave. Newt married Ida Mae Peters in Granbury. They had four children: Lutie, Ferris, Nellie Bly, and Pattie.
Lois is survived by one sister-in-law, Travis Templeton of Wellington; five nieces, Bobbie Rhodes of Wellington, Barbara Shields of Grapevine, Mary Ann Pleasant of Pickton, Sally Roushey of Mesquite, and Lois Patterson of Memphis, TN., three nephews, Dr. Joe Minter of Sulphur Springs, Tom Minter of Rowlett, and Lee Templeton of Amarillo, plus other Templeton, Peters, and Benson relatives, many of whom still reside in her beloved Wellington.
She was preceded in death by her husband in 1980 and four brothers Robert, John Worth (buried in the US Cemetery Solers, France) R.L., Pat Neff (the first to lose his life from Collingsworth County during WWII, buried in Bicester, Oxfordshire, England), and one sister Idabel Minter.
Bio from Dodson Cemetery Association
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