Niece of Speaker
Joyce Lightfoot Rites Tuesday
Mrs. Joyce Rayburn Lightfoot, 69, of 609 East Eleventh Street, Bonham died in Wilson N. Jones hospital at Sherman at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, June 6, 1971.
Funeral services will be held at the Wise Funeral Home chapel at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday with the Rev. Henry Mood, former minister of the First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Dodd City cemetery.
Mrs. Lightfoot, a niece of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, was born Jan. 15, 1902, at Dodd City, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rayburn.
She had retired a number of years ago as secretary of the Fannin County Electric Co-Op.
Mrs. Lightfoot was the widow of Jewel Morris Lightfoot.
She is survived by two sons, Jay Morris Lightfoot of Greenville and James R. Lightfoot of Boston, Mass.; a sister, Mrs. D. O. Lowry, Jr., of Dallas, and four grandchildren.
Mrs. Lightfoot had been in ill health for some time and had been in the hospital most of the time for the past two months. She was reported to have suffered a heart attack Sunday morning.
Active pallbearers will be Alvis Taylor, James Henson, James Thomison, J. W. Cunningham, H. F. Montgomery and Harold Walker.
Joyce Lightfoot Rites Tuesday
Mrs. Joyce Rayburn Lightfoot, 69, of 609 East Eleventh Street, Bonham died in Wilson N. Jones hospital at Sherman at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, June 6, 1971.
Funeral services will be held at the Wise Funeral Home chapel at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday with the Rev. Henry Mood, former minister of the First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Dodd City cemetery.
Mrs. Lightfoot, a niece of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, was born Jan. 15, 1902, at Dodd City, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rayburn.
She had retired a number of years ago as secretary of the Fannin County Electric Co-Op.
Mrs. Lightfoot was the widow of Jewel Morris Lightfoot.
She is survived by two sons, Jay Morris Lightfoot of Greenville and James R. Lightfoot of Boston, Mass.; a sister, Mrs. D. O. Lowry, Jr., of Dallas, and four grandchildren.
Mrs. Lightfoot had been in ill health for some time and had been in the hospital most of the time for the past two months. She was reported to have suffered a heart attack Sunday morning.
Active pallbearers will be Alvis Taylor, James Henson, James Thomison, J. W. Cunningham, H. F. Montgomery and Harold Walker.
Niece of Speaker
Joyce Lightfoot Rites Tuesday
Mrs. Joyce Rayburn Lightfoot, 69, of 609 East Eleventh Street, Bonham died in Wilson N. Jones hospital at Sherman at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, June 6, 1971.
Funeral services will be held at the Wise Funeral Home chapel at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday with the Rev. Henry Mood, former minister of the First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Dodd City cemetery.
Mrs. Lightfoot, a niece of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, was born Jan. 15, 1902, at Dodd City, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rayburn.
She had retired a number of years ago as secretary of the Fannin County Electric Co-Op.
Mrs. Lightfoot was the widow of Jewel Morris Lightfoot.
She is survived by two sons, Jay Morris Lightfoot of Greenville and James R. Lightfoot of Boston, Mass.; a sister, Mrs. D. O. Lowry, Jr., of Dallas, and four grandchildren.
Mrs. Lightfoot had been in ill health for some time and had been in the hospital most of the time for the past two months. She was reported to have suffered a heart attack Sunday morning.
Active pallbearers will be Alvis Taylor, James Henson, James Thomison, J. W. Cunningham, H. F. Montgomery and Harold Walker.
Joyce Lightfoot Rites Tuesday
Mrs. Joyce Rayburn Lightfoot, 69, of 609 East Eleventh Street, Bonham died in Wilson N. Jones hospital at Sherman at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, June 6, 1971.
Funeral services will be held at the Wise Funeral Home chapel at 10:30 a.m. Tuesday with the Rev. Henry Mood, former minister of the First United Methodist Church, officiating. Burial will be in the Dodd City cemetery.
Mrs. Lightfoot, a niece of the late Speaker Sam Rayburn, was born Jan. 15, 1902, at Dodd City, the daughter of the late Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Rayburn.
She had retired a number of years ago as secretary of the Fannin County Electric Co-Op.
Mrs. Lightfoot was the widow of Jewel Morris Lightfoot.
She is survived by two sons, Jay Morris Lightfoot of Greenville and James R. Lightfoot of Boston, Mass.; a sister, Mrs. D. O. Lowry, Jr., of Dallas, and four grandchildren.
Mrs. Lightfoot had been in ill health for some time and had been in the hospital most of the time for the past two months. She was reported to have suffered a heart attack Sunday morning.
Active pallbearers will be Alvis Taylor, James Henson, James Thomison, J. W. Cunningham, H. F. Montgomery and Harold Walker.
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