| Bills, Cynthia Denise Garmon Giles 220128 |
| Birth: 03/07/1968 Death: 08/12/1998 Marriage: 03/06/1986 |
| Cemetery: Fairland-Littlejohn (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. (12/16/2025) |
| Notes THE PARIS NEWS, Wed., Aug. 12, 1998, p. 1A: (Pictures) WOMAN FOUND DEAD IN HOUSE - The body of Cynthia Bills, 30, was found late Tuesday inside a home in the 600 block of 3rd Street SW, an apparent victim of blunt force trauma and bullet wounds. Paris Police officers arrested Reynold Alan Smith, 20, shortly before midnight after an investigation into Ms. Bills death. He was arraigned on a charge of murder shortly before noon today. The investigation began at 12:39 p.m. Tuesday, when Ms. Bills mother, Mamie Giles, a resident of George Wright Homes, reported her missing daughter to police. Mrs. Giles said her daughter rarely was away from home and she became worried when she could not reach her by phone. A search of the neighborhood around George Wright Homes followed. During that search officers learned Ms. Bills had been seen at a home at 623 3rd Street SW. At the home, they questioned Smith, who gave officers permission to search the premises. Officers discovered Ms. Bills' body, wrapped in sheets in a closet of the home. Officers then obtained warrants to search the rest of the house and arrested Smith at 11:54 p.m. for investigation into the death. Ms. Bills body was taken to Collin County Medical Office for autopsy to determine the cause of death, but police said she appeared to have suffered blows to the head and gunshot wounds. The preliminary autopsy report was expected late today or early Thursday from the medical examiner.' THE PARIS NEWS, Mon., Aug. 17, 1998, p. 4B: 'Cynthia Denise Garmon Bills, 30, died Wednesday, Aug. 12, 1998. Services will be at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 18, at New Birth Baptist Church with Elder H. R. Garmon officiating. Burial will be in Fairland-Littlejohn Cemetery by Maxey Funeral Home. She was born March 7, 1968, in Lamar County to Ray Sampson Jr. and Mamie Ann Giles. She married Rodney Leroy Bills March 6, 1986. She was employed by Red River Health Care. Surviving are her mother; her father, who lives in Petty; two brothers, Kennis Sampson of Bonham and Warren Browner of Petty; and a number of uncles, aunts and other relatives. She was preceded in death by her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Garmon, and a great-grandmother, Annie Harris.' |