Miss Ulalee Ratliff, retired Lamar County teacher, who made her home with a niece, Mrs. K. B. Burgess, 1019-4th SW, died about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday in a Paris hospital.
The funeral, Thursday at 4 p.m., will be held at Fry-Gibbs chapel by the Rev. Ronald Prince, with interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
Miss Ratliff leaves a sister, Mrs. J. W. Deweese, Paris, and a brother, George Ratliff, Abilene, besides a number of nieces and nephews, those in Paris being Mrs. Clay Bearden, Mrs. J. W. Williams and J. T. Ratliff, besides Mrs. Burgess.
Daughter of the late Robert and Permelia Craft Ratliff, Ulalee Ratliff was born in Glory Community south of Paris, July 22, 1876.
She attended school there and also Blossom Academy, and a Charleston private school, receiving her bachelor's degree from North Texas State College, Denton. She also did post graduate work at the Universities of Texas, Colorado and Oklahoma. She was president of Lamar Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and belonged to First Baptist Church, where she was active in the Kendall Class and Women's Missionary Union, and taught a Sunday school class until about a year ago.
She had been a teacher chiefly in this area, between 40 and 5o years, first at Clarksville and Detroit, and for a time at Paris High School where she was mathematics instructor.
At the time of her retirement, seven years ago, she was teaching at Alice. Since then she has been living here.
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Miss Ulalee Ratliff, retired Lamar County teacher, who made her home with a niece, Mrs. K. B. Burgess, 1019-4th SW, died about 4:30 a.m. Wednesday in a Paris hospital.
The funeral, Thursday at 4 p.m., will be held at Fry-Gibbs chapel by the Rev. Ronald Prince, with interment in Evergreen Cemetery.
Miss Ratliff leaves a sister, Mrs. J. W. Deweese, Paris, and a brother, George Ratliff, Abilene, besides a number of nieces and nephews, those in Paris being Mrs. Clay Bearden, Mrs. J. W. Williams and J. T. Ratliff, besides Mrs. Burgess.
Daughter of the late Robert and Permelia Craft Ratliff, Ulalee Ratliff was born in Glory Community south of Paris, July 22, 1876.
She attended school there and also Blossom Academy, and a Charleston private school, receiving her bachelor's degree from North Texas State College, Denton. She also did post graduate work at the Universities of Texas, Colorado and Oklahoma. She was president of Lamar Chapter, United Daughters of the Confederacy, and belonged to First Baptist Church, where she was active in the Kendall Class and Women's Missionary Union, and taught a Sunday school class until about a year ago.
She had been a teacher chiefly in this area, between 40 and 5o years, first at Clarksville and Detroit, and for a time at Paris High School where she was mathematics instructor.
At the time of her retirement, seven years ago, she was teaching at Alice. Since then she has been living here.
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Family Members
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William Edward Ratliff
1841–1923
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Robert P. Ratliff
1847–1879
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Alice Belle Ratliff Medlin
1860–1902
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Dr Jefferson Davis "J. D." Ratliff
1861–1939
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Michael Craft Ratliff
1864–1955
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John Liddle Ratliff
1866–1955
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Dr Thomas J Ratliff
1868–1939
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Mary L. Ratliff Ludwick
1870–1950
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James Harvey Ratliff
1872–1951
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Mattye Permelia Ratliff Deweese
1874–1971
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George Clabourne Ratliff
1878–1971
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Pierie R Ratliff
1882–1882
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