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Vera Mae Morris Baxter

22 Nov 1896 – 6 Feb 1985

Birth	22 Nov 1896
Death	6 Feb 1985
Cemetery	Brashear Cemetery Brashear , Hopkins County , Texas , USA
Added by	Gena Forsyth on 10 Feb 2005
FaG	https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/8983278

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Vera Baxter Mrs. Vera Baxter, 88, of 235 Parkins, died at 7:40 p.m. Wednesday in Hopkins County Memorial Hospital. Funeral services were held at 2 p.m. Friday in the Murray-Orwosky Funeral Home chapel with Thomas Hogland officiating. Burial was in the Brashear Cemetery. Grandsons served as pallbearers. She was bom Nov. 22. 1896, in Hopkins County, the daughter of George and Mary Elizabeth Thompson Morris. She married Frank Baxter Dec. 28, 1913, in Hopkins County. He preceded her in death in 1964. Mrs. Baxter was a member of the Southside Church of Christ and retired federal employees organization. She had resided in Sulphur Springs for the past 21 years and was a longtime resident of Brashear. Survivors include four sons, Woodrow Baxter and Elton Ray Baxter, both of Greenville, James Baxter of Carlsbad, N.M., and Max Baxter of Sulphur Springs; five daughters, Mrs. Uola Hickman of Grand Prairie, Mrs. Jewell Loafman of Kress, Mrs. Pansy Yankey of Dallas, Mrs. Pauline Barnes of Cumby and Mrs. Mary Jo Beck of Sulphur Springs; two sisters, Mrs. Lela Scroggins of McKinney and Mrs. Pat Thompson of Beaumont, Calif.; 24 grandchildren; 24 great-grandchildren; and three great-great-grandchildren. She was preceded in death by a daughter, Glenna Rose Baxter. The Hopkins County Echo (Sulphur Springs, Tex.), Vol. 110, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, February 15, 1985 Page: 3 of 4

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Family

Parents

• George Lovet Morris 1864–1905 FaG
• Mary Elizabeth Thompson Kilgore 1866–1926 FaG

Spouse

• James Franklin "Frank" Baxter 1891–1964

Siblings

• Alma Morris Coppedge 1887–1980 FaG
• Nanny Morris Coppedge 1889–1955 FaG
• James Carl Morris 1891–1918 FaG
• George Leland Morris 1892–1965 FaG
• Johnie Jones Morris Hatton 1901–1934 FaG
• Lela Belle Morris Scroggins 1903–1989 FaG

Children

• Lola Beatrice Baxter Hickman 1914–2019
• Aubrey Woodrow Baxter 1916–1987
• Bertha Jewel Baxter Loafman 1918–2015
• Pansy Louise Baxter Yankey 1920–2020
• Elton Ray Baxter 1922–2021
• Mary Jo Baxter Beck 1926–2020
• James William Baxter 1928–2007
• Glenna Rose Baxter 1932–1935

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