Extracted from the Panola Watchman (Carthage, TX)
Thursday, January 2, 1969

Bessie Tomlinson

Funeral services for Mrs. Bessie B. Tomlinson, 91, were held at 2 p.m. Wednesday in the Woods Methodist Church.

Rev. Denion DeShazor, Rev. Ray Holt, and Rev. David Hall officiated. Burial was in the Woods Cemetery under direction of Hawthorn Funeral Home.

Mrs. Tomlinson, a native of Panola County, died in Panola General Hospital Tuesday.

Survivors include a son, S. H. Tomlinson, Jr. of Tehaha; a daughter, Mrs. Lula Mae Schellborn [sic, Lucy Mae Schellhorn] of Galveston; one sister, Mrs. Pearl Baldwin of Lamesa; five grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren.