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OBITUARY
W. D. McInnish Died Tuesday, Feb. 16
W. D. McInnish, who has been a resident of the Carrollton
community since 1929, died in Parkland Hospital Tuesday evening at 5 o'clock,
following a stroke which came about 2 o'clock that afternoon while he was
placing shrubbery at a home on Vickery street, Dallas. He was carried at once to
Parkland and died as above stated.
Funeral services were not held until Friday to permit the arrival
of a daughter from California, and were then held in the Methodist church in
Carrollton, at 4:30 p.m. Rev. R. S. Kerr officiating. Interment in
Perry cemetery, Carrollton.
Rhoton's morticians. Pall bearers were T. G. Kelley, J. E. Parsley, Tom Gammon
Jr., J. W. Gravley, Ivan Kerr, and Carl Montgomery.
W. D. McInnish was born at Spicewood, Burnet county, Sept 23, 1883,
and was at the time of his death 53 years, 4 months and 24 days old. In 1903 he
and Miss Mandy Vineyard of Bowie county were united in marriage and to this
union seven children were born, all of whom are living.
Surviving are the wife, Mrs. W. D. McInnish; two daughters, Mrs. J.
A. Durkee of Long Beach Calif., and Miss Marie McInnish, at home; five sons,
Robert, Nolan, W. D., and Herman of Carrollton, and Brian of Dallas; three
grandchildren, Kenneth, Sylvia May, and Jack McInnish, One brother, Tommie
McInnish of Spicewood.
Mr. McInnish was a nursery man and has been following that business
for many years, having a yard in Dallas for a number of years and doing
landscape work; being engaged thus when death called him.
The Carrollton Chronicle - February 26, 1937
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams |