Ethel Clair (McMillan) Strong (1887 - 1974)

Born 23 Sep 1887 in Colorado Co. Texas

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Died 20 Oct 1974 at age 87 in Colorado Co. Texas

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Final Rites for Mrs. E. Strong Held October 22

Funeral services for Mrs. Ethel Clair McMillan Strong, 87, were held Tuesday, Oct. 22, from Hubbard Funeral Chapel with burial in Masonic Cemetery.

Mrs.Strong died Oct 20 in Youens Memorial Hospital.

Born Sept. 23, 1887, at Osage. She lived in Weimar and was employed as a typesetter for the Weimar Mercury for several years until 1909 when she was married to A. J. DeFoor. They lived in California 11 years then moved to Houston. Mr. DeFoor died in 1947. Mrs. DeFoor later married Floyd L. Strong, who died in 1969. She moved to Weimar in 1970 and had been a resident of Parkview Manor since Dec ember 1973.

Mrs. Strong was also preceded in death by her parents, three brothers and one sister.

She is survived by her daughter, Mrs. Walter W. Williams (Nee Neta Clair DeFoor) of Weimar; a brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Guilford McMillan of Schulenburg; two other sisters-in-law, Mrs. Tennie Beth McMillan of Weimar and Mrs. Archie Capps of Blanco; four grandchildren, Mrs. Wm. J.Sassin of Weimar, Mrs. W. O. Hoegemeyer of Deming, N. M., Mrs. Lloyd C. Arnold of Texas City and Wayne Williams of San Antonio; eight great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandchild. Weimar Mercury, October 31, 1974

Sources

"United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M3LQ-FLK : accessed 28 December 2016), Ether Mcmillan in household of Robt Mcmillan, Justice Precinct 4 (outside Weimar town & north of r.r.), Colorado, Texas, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 18, sheet 13B, family 239, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1972.); FHL microfilm 1,241,622.