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Betsy Mills and Ron Brothers. The Death and Cemetery Records of Lamar County, Texas, ReBroMa Press, 2008, http://www.lamarcountytx.org/cemetery. (05/12/2025)

THE PARIS NEWS, Monday, December 27, 1954, p. 2: “THREET SERVICES. Paris News Service. COOPER -- Mrs. J. M. Threet, 44, of Race Track community, was buried Sunday afternoon in Oaklawn Cemetery by Delta Funeral Home, after services In First Baptist Church. The pastor, the Rev. Glenn Hayden, and Bill Bowman officiated. Delta Funeral Home having charge of arrangements. Mrs. Threet died Friday night in Lamar General Hospital, Paris, where she had been a patient five months. She was formerly Miss Birtie Prater, daughter of H. B. and Nancy Ellen (Brunson) Prater, and was born in Delta County, Octcber 14, 1910. Besides her husband and her father, these Children survive: Ray W. Threet, Cooper; Polly Threet, Race Track, and Helen Threet, Paris; two grandchildren and a brother, J. M. Prater, Race Track.”

THE PARIS NEWS, Wednesday, December 28, 1954, 8: “THREET SURVIVORS. Survivors of Mrs. J. M. Threet, 44, of Race Track community, Delta County, who died Friday and was buried Saturday, are: her father, H. B. Prator; her husband and these children: Roy W. Threet, Cooper; Billy P. Threet, Race Track, and Helen Threet, Paris; two grandchildren, and a brother, J. L. Prator, Paris. She was formerly Miss Birtie Prator, her mother being the former Miss Nancy Ellen Burrow, now deceased.”

Information from Texas Death Certificate:
Name: Birtie Threet
Event Type: Death
Event Date: 24 Dec 1954
Event Place: Paris, Lamar, Texas, United States
Gender: Female
Marital Status: Married
Birth Date: 14 Oct 1910
Birthplace: Delta, Texas
Father’s Name: H B Prator
Mother’s Name: Nancy Ellen Burrow
Certificate Number: 62121
GS Film number: 2114328
Digital Folder Number: 005145263
Image Number: 03063
Citing this Record: “Texas Deaths, 1890-1976,” database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:K3QG-G5N : 13 March 2018), Nancy Ellen Burrow in entry for Birtie Threet, 24 Dec 1954; citing certificate number 62121, State Registrar Office, Austin; FHL microfilm 2,114,328.