Andrews County Obituaries   

All obituaries on this page unless otherwise stated are contributed by McNett Funeral Home.

A special Thank You to them for allowing us to use their site and obituaries. If you have obituaries you would like to share please email me them to me and I will get them post as quickly as possible.

April 26, 1963

Funeral services will be held here Monday at 3 p.m. for James Andrew Fowler, 70, long-time resident of Andrews County.

Services will be held in the Second Baptist Church with Rev. C.E. Wainscott, paster, officiating. Interment will follow in Old Andrews Cemetery under the direction of Singleton’s Funeral Home.

Fowler died in a Mount Vernon, Illinois hospital. Fowler and his wife had moved to Mount Vernon three weeks ago to live with a daughter.

He was a retired farmer and a native of Alabama. He was member of the Baptist Church and Masonic Lodge.

Survivors include his wife, Mary; two daughters, Mrs. Lola Mae Gross of Andrews and Mrs. Oleta Flack of MountVernon; four sons, Edward, Barney, and James all of Andrews, and J.A. of Waterbury, Conn.; his father, W.G. Fowler, Abilene, and a Sister, Mrs. Janie Van Zant, Odessa.

Submitted by:  Lola Thomason

08 Nov 1963

Buman Johnson Gross, age 65, passed away at 1:30 a.m. Friday morning after an extended ill­ness. Gross had been in Amarillo where he became ill and was hospitalized and later transferred to Permian General Hospital here.

He lived in the 600 block of SW 6th street and had been a resi­dent of Andrews for the past 18 years moving here from Seagraves. Gross had farmed and was a mechanic for most of his life. He was the founder of the Gross garage here.

Gross was born in Cooper, ' Delta County, Texas, and February 14, 1898. He is survived by his wife, Mrs. Claudia Gross, one daughter, Mrs. Harold Bonham, of Kermit; six sons, all of Andrews, W. J. "Bill", J. B., Wesley, Leslie, Lester, and Lonnie Gross and six half-brothers, Earnest McSwain, of Modesto, Cali­fornia, Russel McSwain, of Seagraves, Eldon McSwain, of Gore, Bert McSwain, of Amarillo, Frank McSwain, of Dimmitt, and Owen McSwain, of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. '

Other    survivors    include    21 ! grandchildren.   Services   are  set for 3 p.m. Sunday in the Second Baptist  Church  here  with  Rev. H. F. James, of the Bethel Baptist Church, officiating,  assisted by   Rev.   Leon   Snelson, of  the Trinity Baptist Church.

Interment will follow in the An­drews Cemetery under the direction of Singleton    Funeral Home.

Pallbearers are Floyd Peacock, Gordon Cox, Wes Barnes, J. B. Deshazo,  D. Lansford, L. D. Mosley, Carl Vickers, and Ray Phillips. Honorary Pallbearers are Roy Bennett, Elmer Felend, T. N. Hudgens, Paul Graves, N. D. Trull and H. R. Doty.

Submitted by:Lola Thomason

Andrews County, TX AHGP Project Thanks to Rootsweb for hosting this site

County Coordinator:  Christina Kurimski TexasState Coordinator: Cindy Koegel

Last updated: 7 December 2007

The graphics on this site come from the following providers:

Copyright © 2007 ~ Christina Kurimski This site may be freely linked, but not duplicated in any way without consent.  All rights reserved! Commercial use of material within this site is prohibited!