Extracted from The Waco News-Tribune (Waco, TX)
Monday, July 9, 1962

Last Rites Today For Joe P. Day

Funeral services for Joe P. Day of Kate Ross Apartments will be at 3:30 p. m. today in Smith Bend Church. Rev. Carl Jones and Rev. Preston Springfield will officiate with burial in Coon Creek Cemetery.

Mr. Day died at 8:10 p. m. Saturday in a Waco hospital. He was 73.

Mr. Day was a retired farmer.

Survivors are his wife, Mrs. Edith M. Day of Kate Ross Apartments; five sons, George Day of 2536 South Twenty-fourth Street, Charles Day of 1709 East Walnut Avenue, Tom Day and Dillard F. Day, both of Dallas, and Joe Milton Day of Longview; five daughters, Mrs. Kenneth Pelcher of 3104 North Twenty-fifth Street, Mrs. B. D. Eckols of 3107 Dutton Avenue, Mrs. V. T. Raines and Mrs. Wendel Bearden, both of Clifton and Mrs. Roland Findley of Houston; several grandchildren.