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| Bills, Alma Louise Smith 213458 |
| Birth: 08/06/1904 Death: 11/30/1997 Marriage: 11/10/1927 |
| Cemetery: Union Grove (NOT PLOTTED) |
| Record Source: The Paris News |
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If you copy this information, please cite this as your source: Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (12/17/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, Tue., Dec. 2, 1997, p. 4B: '(Picture) Alma Bills laid down her frail earthly tabernacle at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 30, 1997, at her home, 334-3rd NW, and returned her soul to her Heavenly Father. Services will be at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, at Fry and Gibbs Funeral Home Chapel with Rick Henslee, minister of Greenville Church of Christ, and Curry Jones, minister of Reno Church of Christ, officiating. She will be laid to rest beside her husband in Union Grove Cemetery. The family will receive friends from 6:30-7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the funeral home. They will also be at her home. Born in the Jennings community Aug. 6, 1904, Mrs. Bills was the oldest of five children born to George Oliver and Blanche Williams Smith. She attended Ballinger school at Crossroads and Paris public schools. She was employed as bookkeeper for F. W. Woolworth until her marriage to Morris Sheppard Bills Nov. 10, 1927. This marriage was three months short of 65 years when Morris died Aug. 5, 1992. She and Morris lived at Big Sandy and Lufkin before returning to Paris in 1978. She was a devoted wife, loving mother, and faithful Christian. She had been a member of the Church of Christ for 78 years and attended the congregation at Reno at the time of her death. She was an excellent seamstress and spent many hours making clothes for her children and grandchildren. She was well known for her work with dolls. In addition to restoring old dolls, she made new ones and created beautiful one-of-a-kind dresses for them. Her talents were many. She will be greatly missed by her family and friends. If people had trademarks, hers would have been white gloves. She is survived by a son and daughter-in-law, Larry and Sara Bills of Paragould, AR; a daughter and son-in-law, Louise and Russell Stuart of Reno; two granddaughters and their husbands, Robin and Tom Miyakawa of Indianapolis, IN, Amanda and Robert Seesengood of Princeton, NJ; one grandson, Todd Stuart of Jackson, MS; one foster grandson, Terry Cox of Shreveport, LA; four great-grandchildren, Jeremy Stuart of Redfield, AR, Evan and Kristin Miyakawa and Abigail Seesengood; one sister, Helen Davis of Terrell; and a loving friend and faithful companion, Ann Thornton of Blossom; and a number of other friends. She was preceded in death by her parents; two brothers, Oliver Lee arid Ray Williams Smith; one sister, Ruth Kent, and one grandson, Michael Stuart. Pallbearers will be James White, John Henry Graves, Dalton Gibson, Henry Cunningham, Bill Dalton, and Al Barnett. If desired, memorials may be sent to Crowley's Ridge College, 100 College Dr., Paragould, AR 72450 or to Union Grove Cemetery Association, in care of Rita Daugherty, P.0. Box 243, Blossom.' |