Extracted from The Panola Watchman (Carthage, TX)
Wednesday, October 29, 1997

Mavis Sue Greer

Funeral services for Mavis Sue Greer, 85, of DeBerry were held at 2 p.m. Monday, Oct. 27 at Mt. Zion United Methodist Church. The Rev. E.B. Beasley Jr. and Rev. David McKay officiated. Burial followed in Panola-Mt. Zion Cemetery under the direction of Don Lipsey Funeral Home. She died Saturday afternoon, Oct. 25 at Carthage Health Care Center.

Born Jan. 5, 1912 in DeBerry, she was the daughter of Arthur Hearne and Pearl Ann Lawless. Mavis was a native of DeBerry and had moved back to DeBerry in 1969, moving back from Dallas. She was a member of the East Grand Baptist Church of Dallas, and the DeBerry Baptist Church. Mavis was preceded in death by her husband, Thomas Augusta Greer, who died in 1974.

Survivors include her son, Don Greer, of DeBerry; daughters, Mary Sue Jones of Beckville, Shirley York of Mt. Enterprise, and Nancy Kay Hill of Elysian Fields; sister, Mary Ellen Yates of DeBerry; ten grandchildren; 11 great-grandchildren.

Pallbearers were Harold York Jr., Dee Hill, Ben Hill, Jessie York, Jeff Jones, John Jones, Marcus Santacruz and Marcus Santacruz III.