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Millard H. Cannon

15 Sep 1914 – 1 Mar 2012

Birth15 Sep 1914
Death1 Mar 2012
CemeteryStewards Mill Cemetery
Stewards Mill , Freestone County , Texas , USA
Added byDiana Cannon on 10 Feb 2014
FaGhttps://www.findagrave.com/memorial/86079299

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Obituary of Millard H. Cannon: Millard H. Cannon, 97, of Temple, passed away on Thursday, March 1, 2012. Funeral services will be 9 a.m. Saturday, March 3, 2012, at the First Baptist Church of Rogers. A visitation will be on Friday evening from 6 to 8 p.m. at Crawford-Bowers Funeral Home in Temple. Rev. Will Passmore will officiate. Burial will follow in the Stewards Mill Cemetery in Fairfield, Texas. Millard was born near Fairfield, Texas, to the late Hilmon T. and Era Lee York Cannon. He graduated from Fairfield High School in 1933 and attended business college in Dallas, Texas, majoring in business and banking. He was employed with Lampkin Wholesale Grocery Company in Dallas following graduation from business school. September 1, 1936 to January 1945, he was employed by Fairfield State Bank. January 1943 to June 1945 he was employed at Camp Hood with the Camp Hood Banking Facility which was a joint banking operation between the First National Bank and the Temple National Bank of Temple. June 1945 he was employed by the War Department as Chief Property Clerk of the Signal Property Division. In June 1946 he became jointly employed by the First National Bank and Temple National Bank of Temple as manager of the McCloskey General Hospital Banking Facility. In February 1958 he became associated with the Archer City State Bank (1st State), Archer City, Texas as cashier. In June 1958 he returned to Temple to be associated with the Temple National Bank as an officer. January 1967 he accepted the position of President of First State Bank of Rogers, Texas and retired from that position in January 1985. Millard became a member of the First Baptist Church of Rogers in 1967. He served several years as Secretary for the Deacon Body and also served as Secretary of the Bell County Baptist Brotherhood Association. He also served several years as Chairman of the Rogers' Board of Community Housing Authority. Millard is survived by son, Millard Don Cannon, of Temple; daughters, Karon Sue Collier, of Richardson, Texas, and Sherry Lynn Cannon, of Grand Prairie, Texas; grandchildren, Joanna Soles, of Carrollton, Texas, Paul Cannon, of Cypress, Texas, Chris Alexander, of Plano, Texas, and Brandon Collier, of Georgetown, Texas; eight great-grandchildren; brothers, H. J. Cannon and Thomas Doyle Cannon, both of Fairfield, Texas; sisters, Marie Richardson and Juanita Chavers, both of Fairfield, Texas; and many other family members and friends.

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