Extracted from The Big Spring Daily Herald (Big Spring, TX)
Wednesday, June 6, 1956

Mrs. Ida McCarty, Dawson Resident 50 Years, Dies

LAMESA -- A resident of Dawson County for the past 50 years, Mrs. Ida McCarty, 82, died at her home in the Key community Monday night.

A native of Atlanta, Ga., she was a longtime member of the Baptist Church.

Survivors include four daughters, Mrs. Willie Truitt, Lamesa, Mrs. Dorothy Thorne, Gladstone, N. M., Mrs. Dovie Scholey [sic Schooley], Tulia, and Mrs. Pearly Ivey [sic Ivy], Lancaster, Calif.; a sister, Mrs. Georgia Powell, Archer City; eight grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren.

Funeral services were to be held at 4 p.m. today at the Key Baptist Church. Interment was to be in Lamesa Memorial Park under direction of Higginbotham Funeral Home.