THE PARIS NEWS, 31 Oct 1963
J.W. DeWeese, 88, former State Fire Insurance commissioner and once mayor of Paris, died Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Sanitarium of Paris.
He had been admitted there Saturday, having been an invalid the past three and a half years.
Funeral services, Friday at 2:30 p.m. will be held in Fry and Gibbs chapel by Dr. Gordon Clinard of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary faculty, who is interim pastor of First Baptist Church. Interment will be made in Evergreen Cemetery.
Mr. DeWeese, who was in the insurance field from 1910 to 1955, had served in a variety of other public and civic positions.
Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Martha Permelia Ratliff, whom he married in Glory community, 27 Dec 1903; two daughters, Mrs. John W. Williams, Paris, and Mrs. Spurgeon E. Bell, Houston, and 11 other descendants, besides several nieces and nephews.
Son of Louis Wright DeWeese and wife, who was Matilda Ann Stephenson, James William DeWeese was born in Biardstown community, 21 Jul 1875, and attended the old Charleston Normal School in Delta County.
He taught school for a time, and was elected to serve as justice of the peace, 1900-1904. He was Lamar County tax assessor, 1906-1910; Paris alderman, 1912-1916, and mayor of Paris 1922-1924. He was appointed Fire Insurance commissioner of Texas and served from 1928 to 1932. It was while he was mayor that Paris Independent School District was created, and Lake Crook constructed.
He was Lamar County Democratic Committee chairman for a total of 16 years, first elected in 1926-28, and again in 1940. In 1944, he was named a member of the state Democratic executive committee for the 8th Senatorial District.
A member of First Christian Church many years, he had served as an elder, chairman of the official board, Sunday school teacher and superintendent. An organizer of the Paris Lions Club, he was its charter president; was a past president of the Chamber of Commerce, and belonged to the Masonic Lodge, Woodman of the World, and Paris Golf Club. He was a partner in the old insurance firm of Galbreath and DeWeese, now the Kennemer Insurance Agency, having sold his interest in 1955, when he retired.
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J.W. DeWeese, 88, former State Fire Insurance commissioner and once mayor of Paris, died Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Sanitarium of Paris.
He had been admitted there Saturday, having been an invalid the past three and a half years.
Funeral services, Friday at 2:30 p.m. will be held in Fry and Gibbs chapel by Dr. Gordon Clinard of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary faculty, who is interim pastor of First Baptist Church. Interment will be made in Evergreen Cemetery.
Mr. DeWeese, who was in the insurance field from 1910 to 1955, had served in a variety of other public and civic positions.
Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Martha Permelia Ratliff, whom he married in Glory community, 27 Dec 1903; two daughters, Mrs. John W. Williams, Paris, and Mrs. Spurgeon E. Bell, Houston, and 11 other descendants, besides several nieces and nephews.
Son of Louis Wright DeWeese and wife, who was Matilda Ann Stephenson, James William DeWeese was born in Biardstown community, 21 Jul 1875, and attended the old Charleston Normal School in Delta County.
He taught school for a time, and was elected to serve as justice of the peace, 1900-1904. He was Lamar County tax assessor, 1906-1910; Paris alderman, 1912-1916, and mayor of Paris 1922-1924. He was appointed Fire Insurance commissioner of Texas and served from 1928 to 1932. It was while he was mayor that Paris Independent School District was created, and Lake Crook constructed.
He was Lamar County Democratic Committee chairman for a total of 16 years, first elected in 1926-28, and again in 1940. In 1944, he was named a member of the state Democratic executive committee for the 8th Senatorial District.
A member of First Christian Church many years, he had served as an elder, chairman of the official board, Sunday school teacher and superintendent. An organizer of the Paris Lions Club, he was its charter president; was a past president of the Chamber of Commerce, and belonged to the Masonic Lodge, Woodman of the World, and Paris Golf Club. He was a partner in the old insurance firm of Galbreath and DeWeese, now the Kennemer Insurance Agency, having sold his interest in 1955, when he retired.
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THE PARIS NEWS, 31 Oct 1963
J.W. DeWeese, 88, former State Fire Insurance commissioner and once mayor of Paris, died Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Sanitarium of Paris.
He had been admitted there Saturday, having been an invalid the past three and a half years.
Funeral services, Friday at 2:30 p.m. will be held in Fry and Gibbs chapel by Dr. Gordon Clinard of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary faculty, who is interim pastor of First Baptist Church. Interment will be made in Evergreen Cemetery.
Mr. DeWeese, who was in the insurance field from 1910 to 1955, had served in a variety of other public and civic positions.
Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Martha Permelia Ratliff, whom he married in Glory community, 27 Dec 1903; two daughters, Mrs. John W. Williams, Paris, and Mrs. Spurgeon E. Bell, Houston, and 11 other descendants, besides several nieces and nephews.
Son of Louis Wright DeWeese and wife, who was Matilda Ann Stephenson, James William DeWeese was born in Biardstown community, 21 Jul 1875, and attended the old Charleston Normal School in Delta County.
He taught school for a time, and was elected to serve as justice of the peace, 1900-1904. He was Lamar County tax assessor, 1906-1910; Paris alderman, 1912-1916, and mayor of Paris 1922-1924. He was appointed Fire Insurance commissioner of Texas and served from 1928 to 1932. It was while he was mayor that Paris Independent School District was created, and Lake Crook constructed.
He was Lamar County Democratic Committee chairman for a total of 16 years, first elected in 1926-28, and again in 1940. In 1944, he was named a member of the state Democratic executive committee for the 8th Senatorial District.
A member of First Christian Church many years, he had served as an elder, chairman of the official board, Sunday school teacher and superintendent. An organizer of the Paris Lions Club, he was its charter president; was a past president of the Chamber of Commerce, and belonged to the Masonic Lodge, Woodman of the World, and Paris Golf Club. He was a partner in the old insurance firm of Galbreath and DeWeese, now the Kennemer Insurance Agency, having sold his interest in 1955, when he retired.
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J.W. DeWeese, 88, former State Fire Insurance commissioner and once mayor of Paris, died Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. at the Sanitarium of Paris.
He had been admitted there Saturday, having been an invalid the past three and a half years.
Funeral services, Friday at 2:30 p.m. will be held in Fry and Gibbs chapel by Dr. Gordon Clinard of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary faculty, who is interim pastor of First Baptist Church. Interment will be made in Evergreen Cemetery.
Mr. DeWeese, who was in the insurance field from 1910 to 1955, had served in a variety of other public and civic positions.
Surviving are his wife, the former Miss Martha Permelia Ratliff, whom he married in Glory community, 27 Dec 1903; two daughters, Mrs. John W. Williams, Paris, and Mrs. Spurgeon E. Bell, Houston, and 11 other descendants, besides several nieces and nephews.
Son of Louis Wright DeWeese and wife, who was Matilda Ann Stephenson, James William DeWeese was born in Biardstown community, 21 Jul 1875, and attended the old Charleston Normal School in Delta County.
He taught school for a time, and was elected to serve as justice of the peace, 1900-1904. He was Lamar County tax assessor, 1906-1910; Paris alderman, 1912-1916, and mayor of Paris 1922-1924. He was appointed Fire Insurance commissioner of Texas and served from 1928 to 1932. It was while he was mayor that Paris Independent School District was created, and Lake Crook constructed.
He was Lamar County Democratic Committee chairman for a total of 16 years, first elected in 1926-28, and again in 1940. In 1944, he was named a member of the state Democratic executive committee for the 8th Senatorial District.
A member of First Christian Church many years, he had served as an elder, chairman of the official board, Sunday school teacher and superintendent. An organizer of the Paris Lions Club, he was its charter president; was a past president of the Chamber of Commerce, and belonged to the Masonic Lodge, Woodman of the World, and Paris Golf Club. He was a partner in the old insurance firm of Galbreath and DeWeese, now the Kennemer Insurance Agency, having sold his interest in 1955, when he retired.
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