Mrs. Mattie Stanley

Illness is Fatal To Mrs. Stanley, Resident of Odem

ODEM, Texas. Mrs. Mattie Stanley, 83, resident of Odem for the past 35 years, died at 10:30 a.m. Wednesday at the home of her son, Jess Stanley, after a lengthy illness.

Funeral services will be held at 2:30 p.m. Thursday at the Methodist Church in Odem. Burial will be in Odem Cemetery, under direction of Starbuck Funeral Home of Sinton.

Surviving are two sons, Jess and Sam Stanley, both of Odem; one daughter, Mrs. Nettie Vickers of Pleasanton; one sister, Mrs. N.S. McKinney of Carlton, Texas; 18 grandchildren, 26 great-grandchildren and one great-great-grandson.

[Mattie Stanley was married to John B. Stanley who died 1932, her full name is Mat Ellen Dyches Stanley b. 1864 in Williamson County, Texas, daughter of John I. Dyches and Ellen Low of Williamson County, Texas.]

The Corpus Christi Caller-Times 1 July 1948

Submitted by Kenneth Stanley, great-grandson.
Submitted 9/29/02