40 Year Resident to be buried at Farmers Branch

Funeral services for Mrs. Mary Katherine Echols, 70, a resident of Farmers Branch for forty years, will be held at 4 p.m. Monday at the Farmers Branch Baptist Church. The Rev. C. W. Hudson will officiate.  Burial will be in Farmers Branch Cemetery.

Mrs. Echols died Saturday in Wichita Falls.

She was born in Rockdale, Milam County in 1878 and moved to Farmers Branch in 1902.  For the past seven years she had lived in Fort Worth.  She was a member of the Riverside Baptist Church there.

She is survived by a daughter, Mrs. C. R. (Ann) Kientz, Fort Worth; four brothers, George Leslie of McAlester, Okla.; L. W. Leslie of Dallas, Ted Leslie of Bay City, Matagorda County and E. E. Leslie of Fort Worth; two sisters, Mrs. Troy Dennis of Dallas and Mrs. D. D. Dennis of Farmers Branch; a grandson (Wallace Maberry), and two great-grandsons.

The Dallas Morning News - July 18, 1949
Submitted by Betty Lou (Stanley) Dennis