Samuel B. "Red" Price

Samuel B. "Red" Price, a 75-year-old Carrollton resident, died July 14 at his residence after a long illness.
He was born Dec. 9, 1912 in Deming, N.M., and came to Texas with his parents, Rome and Tempie Price, in 1914.  The family settled in the Oak Lawn area of Dallas on Arroyo Street. Mr. Price was one of 14 children. The family was well known along Maple Avenue and were charter members of the North Dallas Baptist Church. Red and his brothers were among the group who helped to dig, by hand, the basement of the original church in the 1920s. He attended Dallas public schools and started his career in barbering in 1927, working for his uncle in a North Dallas barber shop.  Later he worked for several years at the Parkland Barber Shop on Maple Avenue across from the old Parkland Hospital.
June 25, 1936, Red Price married the former Frances O. Gravley of Carrollton. She is the great-granddaughter of Dewitt and Frances Grimes Perry, the early Peters Colony settlers of Carrollton in the mid-19th century. Mr. Price is also the brother-in-law of Carrollton Mayor Milburn Gravley.
In 1951, Mr. Price opened Red Price's Barber Shop on the north side of the Carrollton square on Broadway Street, in a building owned by Tom Vandergriff. It was a popular meeting place in the town for more than two decades. S. B. Price had an affinity to draw older, middle aged and younger people into his place of business. Numerous peoples in the Carrollton area have fond recollections of the Price Barber Shop. He has been a member of the First Baptist Church for more than 40 years and had served as a deacon in that congregation.
Survivors include his wife, Frances, of the family home; two sons, Paul R. Price of Wheaton, Ill., and Samuel D. Price of Portland; three brothers, C. W. Price of Carrollton, Jimmy D. Price of Dallas and H. R. Price of Tyler; five sisters, Maybelle Watson, Vivian Clay and Ann Majors, all of Dallas, Emojean Evins of California and Violet Jo Mitchell of Ennis; and give grandchildren.
The funeral was July 15, in Restland Memorial Chapel, the Rev. Dr. Wayne L. Allen, his pastor, officiating. Burial followed in Highland Gardens at Restland Memorial Park. Nephews served as pallbearers.

The Carrollton Chronicle, Wednesday, July 20, 1988
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams

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FRANCES O. - 1914 - 2011
SAMUEL B. - 1912 - 1988

Restland Memorial Park, Dallas, Dallas County, Texas
Highland Gardens [Lot 7, Blk D.]