Extracted from The Panola Watchman (Carthage, TX)
Wednesday, March 7, 1984

Mrs. Dora Dean Spradley

Funeral services for Mrs. Dora Dean Spradley, 67, Carthage were held at 2 p.m. Monday, March 5 at the Hawthorn Funeral Home Chapel. Rev. Herman Bagley and Rev. Charles French were the officiating ministers. Burial followed in Restland Memorial Park.

Mrs. Spradley, a homemaker, died March 3 at her residence. She was born Feb. 28, 1917 in Panola County, the daughter of George W. and Maude Powell Bounds.

She was a lifelong resident of Panola County and was a member of the Carthage Missionary Baptist Church.

Survivors include her husband, Johnnie H. Spradley of Carthage; son, Johnnie Ray Spradley of Longview, daughter, Mrs. Jackie Malone of Carthage; three brothers, R. K. Bounds, George E. Bounds both of Carthage and Paul W. Bounds of Laurel, Miss.; two sisters, Mrs. Mary Ann Minter, and Mrs. Inez Bailey, both of Carthage; four grandchildren and two great-grandchildren.