Extracted from The Kerrville Mountain Sun (Kerrville, TX)
Wednesday, May 5, 1982

Carl Secrest

Funeral services for Carl Secrest, 85, of Mt. Home were held May 5 in the Grimes-Plummer Funeral Chapels with Rev. Dan Hughs officiating. Interment was in the Sunset Cemetery in Mt. Home. He passed away May 3 in the Kerrville State Hospital.

A resident of Mt. Home since, 1900, he was born Aug. 16, 1896 in Texas. He was a member of the Divide Presbyterian Church Chapel, the Texas Sheep and Goat Raisers Association and of the Masonic Lodge of Leakey and he had served in the United States Army. He married Vallie Stone on July 26, 1930 in Leakey and she preceded him in death on July 30, 1980.

Survivors include two sisters, Mrs. Lillie Broussard of Uvalde and Mrs. Corine [sic Corinne] Hutchings of Henderson and numerous nieces and nephews.