| OBITUARY
LOIS FORD THURLOW
Ex-teacher, descendant of Pioneers
By Rae DeShong - Staff Writer
Lois
Ford Thurlow, a former elementary school teacher, died Feb. 23 in a Houston
Hospital.
Services for Mrs. Thurlow, 91, will be at 1 p.m. Saturday at Webb Chapel Cemetery in Farmers Branch.
The Dallas County native began teaching after her husband died, said her son
Lawson Thurlow of Houston. Mrs. Thurlow taught in the Carrollton area before
teaching in Dallas.
She taught at Sidney Lanier, Maple Lawn, Tom C. Gooch, and F. P. Caillet
elementary schools. She also taught at a military base in Germany.
Mrs. Thurlow was the great-granddaughter if
Isaac Webb, who settled in what is
now farmers Branch the 1840s. Her father, Howard Ford, was Webb's grandson.
Isaac Webb is credited with establishing the first church in Dallas County -
Webb's Chapel.
Mrs. Thurlow was one of 10 children raised on her family's farm in the Webb
Chapel area. She graduated from North Dallas High School, her son said. She
attended college at what is now Texas Woman's University in Denton.
Mrs. Thurlow married Col. Thomas L. Thurlow in the early 1930s. Mr. Thurlow, a
navigator and instructor for the Army Air Corps, died during a flight test in
1944, their son said.
Mrs. Thurlow is also survived by another son, Thomas N. Thurlow of Houston;
eight grandchildren; nine great-grandchildren; one brother, Pege Ford of Dallas;
and two sisters, Nell Winder of Johnson City, Tenn., and Dorothy Good of San
Antonio.
Memorials may be made to Webb Chapel Cemetery Association, P.O. Box 810508,
Farmers Branch, TX 75381.
Submitted by Edward Lynn Williams |
Carrollton-Farmers
Branch TXGenWeb