HOLT - Mrs. Tera Florence Givens, 67, of Rt. 1 Holt, died early Friday morning in a local hospital.
Mrs. Givens was born in Dale County and then moved to Okaloos County in 1921. She was a member of the Pilgrim Rest Baptist Church at Baker.
Survivors include the widower, W. H. Givens of Holt; four sons, Don Givens of Crestview, Johnnie Odell of Fort Walton Beach, Ralph Givens of the U.S. Air Force, Westly Givens of Hialeah; three daughters Mrs. Lucille Henry of Fort Walton Beach, Mrs. Inez Charbonneau, of Ludlow, Mass., Mrs. Shirlon Fritts of Virginia Beach, Va.; four sisters, Mrs. Ethel Lewis, Mrs. Stella Robinson, Mrs. Olzy Johnson all of Winter Haven, Mrs. Mary Lisenby of Montgomery, Ala.; a brother, Hugh C. Baldwin, of Ozark, Ala., and 21 grandchildren.
Active pallbearers will be Louie H. Ates, Ronnie Johnson, Jimmie Johnson, Pat Givens, Jerry Givens and Chelcie Henry.
Funeral services will be conducted at 3 p.m. Sunday at the Shady Grove Assembly Church near Baker, with the Rev. Carl Lambert and the Rev. C. A. Flowers officiating.
Burial will be in the Shady Oak Cemetery with Aultman Funeral Home in charge.
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↑ First-hand information as remembered by Cynthia Kolb, Tuesday, April 21, 2015. Replace this citation if there is another source.
↑ Published in Pensacola News Journal, Pensacola, FL, 30 Apr 1967, p.2
"Florida Death Index, 1877-1998," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VVF7-PHQ : 25 December 2014), Tera Florence Givens, Apr 1967; from "Florida Death Index, 1877-1998," index, Ancestry (www.ancestry.com : 2004); citing vol. 2947, certificate number 21025, Florida Department of Health, Office of Vital Records, Jacksonville.
"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M988-QZW : accessed 7 June 2020), Mamie Baldwin in household of John W Baldwin, Precinct 9 Echo, Dale, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 66, sheet 1B, family 13, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,240,012.
Note: name is Mamie Baldwin.
"United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MKQ5-K58 : accessed 7 June 2020), Lena Baldwin in household of John H Baldwin, Piney Grove, Houston, Alabama, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 139, sheet 7B, family 138, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1982), roll 16; FHL microfilm 1,374,029.
Note: name is Lena Baldwin.
"United States Census, 1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MXZT-GR1 : accessed 7 June 2020), Tera Givens in household of William N Givens, Kinsey, Houston, Alabama, United States; citing ED 150, sheet 6B, line 71, family 125, NARA microfilm publication T625 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1992), roll 17; FHL microfilm 1,820,017.
"United States Census, 1930," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:SYK8-H6Z : accessed 7 June 2020), Terra F Givens in household of William H Givens, South Baker, Okaloosa, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) ED 1, sheet 2B, line 86, family 42, NARA microfilm publication T626 (Washington D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2002), roll 326; FHL microfilm 2,340,061.
"United States Census, 1940," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:VTCW-BR1 : 27 January 2020), Florence Giving in household of W H Giving, Baker, Election Precinct 1, Okaloosa, Florida, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 46-1, sheet 2B, line 58, family 28, Sixteenth Census of the United States, 1940, NARA digital publication T627. Records of the Bureau of the Census, 1790 - 2007, RG 29. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 2012, roll 602.
Note: name is Florence Giving.
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