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Dessie Oneta Sumrow Bridges

20 Aug 1907 – 8 Oct 1939

Birth	20 Aug 1907
Death	8 Oct 1939
Cemetery	Merit Cemetery Merit , Hunt County , Texas , USA
Added by	Philip Sumrow on 14 Aug 2017
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/64000142

Bio

Dessie Oneta married Eulas (Jack) Harris (son of Horace M Harris & Nettie Hyde Harris) after her marriage with Howard Bridges ended. Jack Harris shot his wife Oneta before turning the gun on himself. After shooting Oneta, he went looking for her two boys (Bobby & Billy Bridges) to kill them as well. Fortunately he didn't find them and killed himself. His memorial has not been found as of yet.

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Family

Parents

• George Franklin Sumrow 1886–1963 FaG
• Bessie Augusta "Bessie Baker the Candy Maker" Tompkins Sumrow 1887–1967 FaG

Spouse

• Howard Clingman Bridges 1907–1991

Siblings

• Floy Marie Sumrow Abbott 1911–1977 FaG
• George Cecil Sumrow 1913–1958 FaG
• Irvin E Sumrow 1919–1963 FaG
• Fred Carson Sumrow 1922–2014 FaG
• Jo Evelyn Sumrow Bredeson 1924–2003 FaG

Children

• Billy Gene "Bill" Bridges 1929–2012

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